WordPress Tutorial - Make Static Page Your Home Page -Part 3

PLEASE NOTE - UPDATED TUTORIAL HERE: http://bit.ly/bhvl2d
This WordPress Tutorial follows-up to the tutorials "Make a Static Page Your Home/Front Page" and "Make a Static Page Your Home Page - Part 2". Tutorial Part 2 shows how to hide the link to a page that you use as your home page so that people aren't confused by the fact that there are two links to the same page in your main site navigation. That technique works when you have navigation in the sidebar that shows subpages AND you actually have subpages that are part of your site. If you don't have subpages, there is no way to hide the link to your home page because it will show up in the navigation as a subpage link. So, instead, this tutorial Part 3 shows you how to customize a sidebar using WordPress Widgets. This allows you to remove the page navigation from the sidebar. That way, you can make the home page a subpage and the link won't show in the main navigation. Confused? Forgive me! It's not as hard as it may sound. Check out the tutorial and you will see what I mean.

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• mcbuzz

[pjb84]

I try this but my button still shows up at the top with my theme. Any ideas why?? It doesnt matter if I make it a sub page it stays there.

[mcbuzzvideo]

Did you ever get an answer to this question? My apologies, if not!

My guess is that you need to create new page. Make that your home page, and then hide the link for that page. Have you selected a static page as your home page yet?

Mark M.

[BaKKaNeKKo91]

Is this tutorial goes the same with the Wordpress 3.0.1?

I tried this, I made a new page, 2 of them, for the home page and blog. I change the 'reading' option, into 'static page' to my custom front page and the 'post page' to my blog page. Then I hide the page, the custom page that I made(?) I tried to hide it and when I refresh it goes blank, but I still can see if I add /blog or /portfolio to the link. I don't have the default 'home page' menu in the option page. >_>

Excuse my English

[fqb1169]

thank you for the video- BUT what if all subpages show, I have gone as far as 4 deep and they still show in the header nav. I know how to comment them out in the sidebar, but have not been able to do so in the header.

[ComputerJunkies]

Thanks so much-

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[nippermh]

How do you remove wordpress comments section when making static pages?

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