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Using a blog-style or static homepage

Using a blog-style or static homepage

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Using a blog-style or static homepage

- [Instructor] Another option we can use for our homepage is to display latest posts. You can do this with anything, even if it does have a custom homepage template available. And I'll show you how. From your WordPress admin go to Settings, Reading, and you can see that you can set your homepage to display your latest post or a static page that is a custom page you've created on your site. Since showing latest post is a default WordPress behavior, you don't need any special setup to make this work. I'll select that and save my changes. Let's go take a peek at the homepage of the site. And there's a list of my two blog posts, as expected. By the way, that setting we just selected to display latest post, you can also access from the Customizer under Homepage Settings. And the other option here is to use a static page. We're going to look at a static homepage in the next lesson, but while I'm here I want to call your attention…

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