Lots of ways to do this. some themes have “sticky post” options, or “featured post” options and sliders..
There are plugins that do this as well I am sure too.
What I do for most of my wordpress installs is this:
Create a “PAGE” – “welcome to my awesome site.. here is my intro”
Create another “page” – call is “blog” (or posts, or something else”
Go to settings on the left / reading.
at top = Front page displays – select “A Static page” radio button. Then select the page for welcome to my awesome site for front page, and then your “posts” or whatever page to display your blog posts.
IF you want your site like that.. if you just want a sticky intro post at the top with your posts below that on your front page, then you need to look at your theme options (sometimes ‘make this a sticky post’ or something like that will appear on your post editor window somewhere..
Or look into plugins..
If you choose to do the static page thing I outlined above, then I would also look into your custom menus, and your pages listed on sidebar in widgets (if you have these) and exclude the page there.. info about that (and really all of this I think) is in the codex and other forum responses.
Hope this is helpful – welcome to wordpress! it’s powerful and awesome, but takes some digging around at first to make it dance exactly the way you envision.
Please mark this as resolved if it solves your problem. I am not a wordpress moderator or anything, just a user that tried to give back to the community when I ask questions myself. My instructions may not be perfect, so use at your own risk – lol
