1. Go to Pages, click add new and name it Home. On the right you’ll see page attributes and choose ‘Front Page’ in Templates. Save the page.
2. Go to pages, click add new and name it Blog (or whatever you want).
3. Go to settings>reading, choose front page displays “static”. Choose the Front Page as “Home”, and Posts Page as “Blog”.
4. Every time you create a post, choose “Featured” for the slider, “Primary” for the list of images below, and “Secondary” for the ‘more articles’ section.