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  retrogamer90 · Member · Dec 15, 2015 at 2:37 pm

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  Hey,

  I’m hoping that this will be really easy for you guys to answer, or at least if there is a solution.

  Is there anyway to have a static home page where my menu items are in blocks on the page with no posts?

  i.e. my menus to be as follows:

  Menu 1 | Menu 2 | Menu 3
  Menu 4 | Menu 5 | Menu 6

  With a different picture and clickable box for each menu item?

  i have used the theme Cubic before but I believe this theme to only have this function for each post? Is this correct?

  I hope this is doable.

  Thanks,
  Chris

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  reilly707 · Member · Dec 15, 2015 at 3:30 pm

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  Hi,
  It is possible but you have to get creative and create it yourself unless if your theme has that as a basic function. So what you can do is to have a static front page, and then use custom design boxes, menus, buttons, or whatever you like that would link the user to where otherwise your menu items would. In other words, on your static front page, you will have a full post, that consists of nothing but those menus presented in any format you like.

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  retrogamer90 · Member · Dec 15, 2015 at 3:50 pm

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  That sounds exactly what I need.

  Custom design boxes sounds complicated, however, is there a topic on this? I am trying to find one.

  Thanks,

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  reilly707 · Member · Dec 15, 2015 at 4:11 pm

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  Hmm, I’m not sure if there’s a topic on this, I check and I’ll link you to it if I find one. About the design, it’s not nearly as complicated as it sounds, really! All you need to do is to create a post and present your menus there in a well organised way. For example, you can divide your post into multiple columns and have each column hold a menu item written in some big fancy font. Or you can have an image for each item!

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  retrogamer90 · Member · Dec 15, 2015 at 4:23 pm

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  Okay, that sounds easy enough.

  I have created a font page, where I intend to house these image links. How to do place these custom design boxes within this page?

  Sorry, I am not very clued up on this.

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  reilly707 · Member · Dec 15, 2015 at 4:53 pm

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  You can pick up an image for your buttons here at http://logomakr.com/ or on any other similar website. Then after you have uploaded them all, you create a front post for your static page. On that post you bring in your images one next to another and link them to where you want to. Then you have to get creative and organize them by separating them using the space bar. Make sure you do not allow any discussion on this post. Another way to bring in simple buttons is to use html code:
  ButtonName

  where I wrote “your menu link” you add the what comes at the very end of your URL. So for instance, if you want your button to link the user to your about page (www.yourwebsite.com/about), your code will be like this:
  About us(or whatever you like)

  You could also use plugins but I think in wordpress.com you would need to pay in order to be able to install them (I am not sure though).

  Anyhow, the point is that the wordpress editor is fairly limited and simple, so you ought to find a way around it. :)

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  reilly707 · Member · Dec 15, 2015 at 4:59 pm

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  Sorry the code I wrote you got executed automatically. Here it is again:
  <a class="Button" href="/Your-menu-link">Button-text</a>