Time for action – defining Reading settings

WordPress gives you the option of having a blog listing on your home page or using a static page instead. A blog listing is great for a magazine site like ours but on a business website, for example, you might want to have a static page. In fact it's becoming more and more common for WordPress sites to be set up with static front pages now.

  1. Go to Settings | Reading to access the Reading Settings screen:
    Time for action – defining Reading settings
  2. As you can see, the site is set to the default—the front page displays all your latest posts. This is what we want, so we don't need to make any changes here.
  3. Below this, you'll see that there are options to change the number of posts displayed and whether a full post or an extract is displayed. We'll keep the number of posts at 10 but tell WordPress to display a summary instead of each full post on the front page.
  4. To do this, click on the radio button next to Summary.
  5. Click on the Save Changes button, switch to your site, and refresh your browser.

What just happened?

We edited our Reading settings in line with the site's design. If we wanted to use a static page as our home page, we would click on the Static Page radio button and then choose the static page we wanted to display as our home page.

Creating a menu

The next step is to set up our menu in the Menus admin screen.

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