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Learn to Create WordPress Themes by Building 5 Projects

You're reading from   Learn to Create WordPress Themes by Building 5 Projects Master the fundamentals of WordPress theme development and create attractive WordPress themes from scratch

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787286641
Length 458 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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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 Settings and 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...

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