Creating a static home page

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  actionpronto · Member · May 11, 2013 at 2:53 pm

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  I’m using the Garland theme. The default “home” page is the blog page. Can I add a static home page, call it “Home” on the navigation bar, and rename the current home (blog) page to “Blog”? Or do I need to pick another theme that already comes with “Home” and “Blog” pages already created?
  Thanks very much.

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  timethief · Member · May 11, 2013 at 5:07 pm

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  Please be sure you fully understand the differences between Pages and Posts. http://en.support.wordpress.com/post-vs-page/

  The front page of the blog by default will display your posts (not pages) in reverse chronological order, with the most recently published post on top. If you do not want all the posts to show on the front page, then you can create a static front page called for example “Welcome” for your site and a “Blog” page for posts.

  To do that create two pages > http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/ After you do that you go to > Settings > Reading and make the designation change and click “save changes”.
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/front-page/

  Front page displays
  __ Your latest posts

  A static page (select below)
  Front page:
  Posts page:

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  actionpronto · Member · May 14, 2013 at 12:00 am

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  Thank you very much!

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  timethief · Member · May 14, 2013 at 7:08 pm

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  You’re welcome. :)