Customizing WordPress - Static Front Page
This will be the first in a short series of articles on how I customized WordPress to fit my desired site structure.
This post describes how I created a static page as the entry to my site.
By default, for the front page, WP just dumps the latest posts from your blog onto the page. There is no option (that I have found anyway) in the admin panel to use a static page as the front page. You might want to do this, for example, to have a welcome message of sorts. By default, you can’t.
There are plugins available that do the job. I’ve got the page2front plugin done by Ryan Boren. I found it while reading on the subject on the WP forums. Here it is. Basically, you create a page with a slug of “home”, and activate the plugin, which in turn causes that page to be the static front to the site. Go to this site’s home page. You’ll see a static page there - that’s the result of the plugin.