How to create and customize the home page on your WordPress site

The home page is the interface of your site and the first thing that appears to visitors. In contrast, WordPress templates come with a default home page on which the latest published posts are displayed and some other components from the search bar, categories, etc., which differ from one template to another. Therefore, creating the home page in a customized way expresses the identity of the site, and using it in the best way to show what can be shown to visitors in its best form.

In this article, we will explain to you how to create a home page, through 3 different methods to better control its content, and we will also try launching an excellent home page in practical steps. Article contents Steps to create and customize the home page  1.

Create the home page 2. Define the home page 3.

Customize the home page using the customization feature in

Template through the component editor Relying on drag-and-drop plugins Customizing the home page using Beaver Builder Steps to create and customize the home page Everyone who thinks about creating a home page instead of the default home page always has some distinctive content that he wants to attract the visitor’s eye, such as highlighting his own products, or presenting some offers, to get the visitor to perform a specific action or adding some spirit to the home page by attaching his own brand features, from logos, fonts, colors, etc. You can do this through easy steps that we explain as follows: 1.

Create the home page First, go to the WordPress control panel of the website on which you want to create the home page, then click on Pages, then Add New. Then, from within the page editor, name the page with the name you want, for example HOME, and click Publish in the upper left part of the editor, and thus you have created the home page for the site. 2.

Defining the home page Now, you have created your home page, but it is not the actual home page of the site that is visible to visitors. If you visit the website you will find that nothing has changed, and until now the articles page is the home page. We used to see at the bottom: So, the next step is to define the new page, as the home page of the site. Let’s move on to the next step related to customizing the page. You can do this by heading to the site’s control panel, selecting with the mouse button on Settings and then clicking on Read. Under the Reading Settings section, select the Home Page option and then choose the home page you created previously, which we called “Home.” Then click Save changes.

3. Customize the home page Now, if you go to the site’s main page, you will find that the page has changed and the elements that were previously present have disappeared, but it does not include the design or texts that you want to display to visitors, so we will customize it. There are three ways to customize the home page on WordPress, which are: Using the customization feature in the template, regardless of the type of template you rely on. You can customize the template’s home page by clicking on Appearance > Customize, and you will be able to customize the entire home page, including the logo and modifying the texts and sections of the page. Home, background image and footer. Knowing that the options in this feature differ from one template to another, and that there are some templates that do not come with customization.

Through the component editor, also called the Gutenberg editor, you can customize the home page, whether by adding texts, embeds, columns, or buttons and widgets. You can access it by clicking on Pages from the WordPress control panel, then clicking on the (Edit) tab under the name of the home page concerned with customization. But before that, it must be installed on your site instead of the main editor.

You can learn about everything it allows through the article explaining the Gutenburg component editor. Relying on drag-and-drop plugins You can also use website building plugins, and you can learn about many options by reading the article The 6 Best Website Building Add-ons by Drag-and-Drop. Some add-ons are also limited in features, as there are paid versions of them.

In this explanation, we will rely on the Beaver Builder add-on as an example only, because it comes with an easy user interface with a set of ready-made templates and pages that are compatible with various pages. Customizing the home page using Beaver Builder First, you will install the Beaver Builder plugin on your site by going to the WordPress control panel, then moving to the (Add-ons) tab.