From the course: Learning Genesis for WordPress
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Using a custom or dynamic homepage
From the course: Learning Genesis for WordPress
Using a custom or dynamic homepage
- [Instructor] We've looked at a lot of behind the scenes configuration options so far. Let's get to the fun work of talking about your homepage. This is often the first impression a visitor gets of your site, and I found, people largely select themes based on the appearance of a homepage. There are several options available for how a homepage layout works. By default, in WordPress, homepage shows a list of blog posts in reverse chronological order. Depending on what you're going for, that may work fine for you, but usually people want something with a little more visual appeal. Your options for laying out a homepage and the type of homepage you have will be largely determined by your theme. I'd like to go over some of these options so that you understand the differences when you see them. We'll start with the custom homepage. Many of the themes available from StudioPress have a custom homepage. The same is true of many…