Custom home page

Now we'll create a custom home page and then add widgets to the positions that we added.

Let's create a new file and save this as front-page.php. If we reload the home page it goes completely blank because it's looking at front-page.php file. So I'll copy what we have in page.php and paste it in front-page.php.

Now let's reload:

This doesn't look very good because we're showing the posts with just the page formatting. So let's go into pages, and create two new pages. We will call one Home; we'll just say This is the homepage, click on Publish, and similarly create a new one called Blog and Publish:

Now we'll go to Settingsand then to Reading:

In Your homepage displays, we'll set A static page; for Homepage, we'll choose Home; for Post page we'll choose Blog, and then we'll save it.

Now we'll go to Appearanceand then Menus:

Let's go to tick Blog and click on Add to Menu. We'll put that right between About and Services and save it. Now if we go back and reload, we get the Home page...