How do I convert existing landing page to a static homepage please?

  • New to WordPress and did not realise that the front/landing page is different from other static pages.

    It is now causing problems for me as I wish to link the primary/nav menu to certain areas of text (in what is currently a one page website) and the options to achieve this are not there whenever I try and follow instructions offered online – because the landing page does not effectively exist as a ‘page’.

    Having already created what I thought would be the homepage, I do not want to have to reproduce it all from scratch on a newly created static page. Althoug I now understand that what currently exists cannot be the homepage due to it being a blogging / dynamic page, I am wondering if I can convert it into a static page which I can then set as the homepage – I figured that I might be able to do this by deleting the blog element? Copying and pasting the remainder onto a newly created static page?

    Any help would be gratefully accepted, as I have been going round in circles for hours…

    The page I need help with: [log in to see the link]

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  • lisa

    (@contentiskey)

    In your WordPress Dashboard SETTINGS > READING area — which page is assigned to front page and which page is assigned to posts page

    Which of your PUBLISHED pages is the one you wish to have showing as the home page? Please share the complete URL of the page.

    Does your theme (Zeever) have a specialized front page or other template that might be impacting your situation. Starting a topic in the theme’s specific support forum would be a good place to ask for theme specific guidance: https://www.ads-software.com/support/theme/zeever/

    Thread Starter looli

    (@looli)

    Thanks for such a prompt response Lisa.

    Under SETTINGS>READING I just see this: https://vphinternational.org/wp-admin/options-reading.php

    This is the page which I want to be the homepage: https://vphinternational.org/

    I am afraid I don’t know how specialised Zeever is as it is the only theme I have ever used.

    I basically set up my website as one long page on what I now know to be the landing page (which has the blog at the bottom of it). I then created additional pages, thinking it would be good to be able to navigate away from the landing page to these as separate pages. I was surprised to see that my homepage was not listed as a page when I went into the pages tab, but now understand why.

    As some of the organisation blurb such as Services features on the landing page, I realised that it would be more sensible just to link Services in the nav menu to that section of text on the landing page – as opposed to a separate page, but all the explainations of how to do this didn’t work as this page does not show up under pages – hence me now trying to work out how to turn the landing page into a static page.

    Do I have to create a new static page and then try and recreate all the work I have done on the landing page on this new static page – or is there a simpler and quicker way? Even just copying and pasting all the elements except the blog would be preferable to doing everything all over again

    And if, for whatever reason, I am unable to create this static homepage, is there a way of making the landing page private?

    • This reply was modified 1 year, 6 months ago by looli.
    lisa

    (@contentiskey)

    -I am not able to see anything using this link since that is not a public area. https://vphinternational.org/wp-admin/options-reading.php

    -Please make a list of the published pages you have created with the URL of each page and share so I can see the content you have put on each page.

    -Yes, you can set a page to be PRIVATE (not visible to public to read). Review this guide: https://www.hostinger.com/tutorials/wordpress-private-page

    -Note: all pages are technically “static” ( ex. services page, contact us page, about us page) — however, something like a categoriy archive area or blog posts area would not be static since those areas change automatically as new posts are published.

    -maybe the theme’s support team can offer ideas of how to (simply?) copy content from one area to another if that’s what you would like to do. use this link: https://www.ads-software.com/support/theme/zeever/

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