WiscWeb - WordPress UW Theme - Setting Your Homepage

In this document:

• Purpose
• Requirements
• Setting your homepage

Purpose

When you first begin building your UW Theme site, the main landing page, or homepage, is set to the default posts list. You will want to set a specific page to be the main landing page of your site.

Requirements

There are several items to be aware of before you can set your homepage.

• You must first create a page in the Pages section and publish it so that it can be used. WiscWeb - WordPress UW Theme - Creating a Page
• Only site administrators have the ability to set the homepage for a site.

Setting your homepage

1. From the Dashboard, click on Appearance
2. Click on Customize
   
   
   
   
3. Click on Homepage Settings
   
   
   
   
4. Under Your homepage displays, choose the "A static page" option
   
   
   
   
5. Select the page you'd like as the homepage from the drop down list.
6. Click the blue Publish button

See Also:

• WiscWeb - WordPress UW Theme - Site-Wide Settings in the Customizer
• WiscWeb - WordPress UW Theme - Cannot Set Homepage in Customizer