Static home page
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I’m interested in a website. Everything is referring to a blog. Im looking for a free theme to get a static home page but no theme is allowing me to do that. Is there any free themes that allow a static home page?
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Almost all the themes allow you set a front page if you set the Front page displays to a static page. Please check the Front Page support document to learn more about this feature.
Please feel free to let me know if you are looking for anything else :-)
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finally got my static home page. Now trying to download a video from youtube to the blog page but it will not let me. Do you have to have an upgrade in order to do this?
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Ive tried to follow the directions several times and it has not worked. Ive tried the “unlink” button and several other things but cannot get it to work.
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Have you also ensure the YouTube URL or shortcode on its own line as mentioned in the second bullet in the troubleshooting section of the YouTube support document?
Could you be a bit specific and describe what do you mean it doesn’t work? Currently I can’t see any posts on your blog? Could you publish a post with YouTube video embedded in it and link it here, so that I can take a look?
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Now trying to download a video from youtube to the blog page but it will not let me.
If you want to embed YouTube video player (or 15 players) in post without paying for the video upgrade which would allow you to upload the video from a file, not directly from YouTube, then what you want to do is copy and past the Embed code below the video at YouTube.
Follow these steps:
1. Go to the YouTube video page of your choice.
2. Click Share.
3. Click Embed, which will display the code you need in a box below the Embed button.
4. Copy that code.
5. Paste it into a post.
6. Update.
7. View or preview your post to see that the video player is displayed and test whether it plays the video. -
I still do it the old way. You can skip a few steps using the video URL, but it won’t include width and height dimension. Steps using the video URL:
1. Go to the YouTube video page of your choice.
2. Copy the video URL.
3. Paste it into a post.
4. Update.
5. View or preview your post to see that the video player is displayed and test whether it plays the video. -
BTW the video URL is found at the top of your browser in the navigation bar. The code found below the video after selecting SHARE, but before clicking EMBED will not work.
Here’s an example demonstrating the difference:
1. URL — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMVvRImExKc
2. Share code: http://youtu.be/UMVvRImExKc
3. Embed code: <iframe width=”420″ height=”315″ src=”//www.youtube.com/embed/UMVvRImExKc” frameborder=”0″ allowfullscreen></iframe>. -
By “will not work” regarding the SHARE code in the previous post I meant “will not embed” the video. It will just display a link to the video.
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golfphysique – are you all set with your videos? Looks like you got some good advice about embedding videos above, and I see them OK on this page, for example:
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This is possible with almost every theme out there. The reason why you only hear about “blogs” is because that’s what WordPress is developed for. But if you change the frontpage to a static one instead of latest blog posts, you get exactly what you’re searching for :)
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