How do I have a static front page?

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  familyhistorian · Member · Sep 27, 2006 at 4:01 am

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  I’m very new at this.
  My posts all display on my main front page by default, but I’d like to have a static page there.
  How do I control that?

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  rsathya · Member · Sep 27, 2006 at 4:05 am

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  I think it has been answered couple of times,
  You can control the same from ur Dashboard
  Options -> Reading
  and select the Static Page u want :)

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  familyhistorian · Member · Sep 27, 2006 at 5:15 pm

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  Yes thanks. That’s been most helpful.

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  gregladen · Member · Sep 10, 2007 at 12:59 pm

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  Interestingly, that does not always work.. For me, right now, when I look at Options -> Reading on my wordpress 2.1 self hosted site control panel there is no such option.

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  sulz · Member · Sep 10, 2007 at 1:07 pm

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  gregladen: that’s probably because the instructions above are for bloggers hosted by wordpress.com.

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  thistimethisspace · Member · Sep 10, 2007 at 2:37 pm

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  @gregladen
  The forum for self hosted bloggers is here http://wordpress.org/support

  Options-> Reading
  Reading Options
  Front Page
  Front page displays:
  Your latest posts
  A static page (select below – dropdown menu)
  * Front page:
  * Posts page:
  Click “update Options” to save