WEBVTT 00:00.180 --> 00:07.740 Probably the first thing you want to do is to create your home page or set what your home page should 00:07.740 --> 00:14.220 be right now and whenever you start a new WordPress site the home page of your site is actually the 00:14.220 --> 00:20.880 blog article page where a list of all of your recent posts appears when you install WordPress. 00:20.880 --> 00:27.970 What happens is a sample blog article and a sample page are added to your site automatically. 00:27.990 --> 00:34.110 So this post right here when you go to your Web site is actually just a sample post that they created 00:34.200 --> 00:37.740 will want to delete that and write our own content later. 00:37.740 --> 00:40.530 This is also the home page of your web site. 00:40.650 --> 00:47.270 So to create a separate standalone page we're going to create a new page and call it home. 00:47.310 --> 00:53.430 So go from your dashboard to pages add new under Title just type in home. 00:53.430 --> 00:59.130 This doesn't really matter for this page because what happens when you type in the title of a page is 00:59.130 --> 01:00.870 this permalink appears. 01:00.870 --> 01:03.570 This is the link to get to this page. 01:03.570 --> 01:09.180 Now right now the link says Ebner designs dot com forward slash home. 01:09.210 --> 01:15.390 We don't want people to have to type in Ebner dot com designs slash home to get to the home page but 01:15.390 --> 01:18.410 don't worry we're going to set the home page of the site. 01:18.450 --> 01:21.810 Ebner designs dot com to go directly to this page. 01:21.810 --> 01:27.350 So you see this is the page editor and we're going to be designing a page in the next lesson. 01:27.360 --> 01:33.720 But right now I just want to show you that in the main part of this editor you have a text editor with 01:33.720 --> 01:35.850 different text options up here. 01:35.850 --> 01:41.460 This is where you're going to be designing your page on the right side you have different options for 01:41.460 --> 01:43.770 publishing such as publishing. 01:43.770 --> 01:46.880 Now you can save a draft of your page. 01:46.920 --> 01:53.370 You can also preview it and then down below here are options for making your page out of a certain template 01:53.670 --> 01:56.190 and some themes come with multiple templates. 01:56.190 --> 02:02.600 For example a theme might come with a contact page template or a portfolio page template. 02:02.850 --> 02:05.570 We'll talk about all these things in a future lesson. 02:05.580 --> 02:09.970 But first right now let's just publish this page. 02:10.130 --> 02:15.950 Once you publish a page you can view it by clicking the view page button up here or clicking the permalink 02:16.040 --> 02:16.650 right here. 02:16.670 --> 02:19.410 I'm going to control click to open it up in a new tab. 02:19.430 --> 02:21.890 And now this is what this page looks like. 02:21.890 --> 02:24.230 So now this is in our home page. 02:24.260 --> 02:26.580 If I go to Ebner designs dot com. 02:26.630 --> 02:30.260 What happens is I go back to that page where the blog articles were. 02:30.290 --> 02:37.800 So to set that as my home page what I'm going to do is go under settings and then reading here you see 02:37.800 --> 02:41.810 that your front page displays option is your latest posts. 02:41.820 --> 02:43.670 I want to make it a static page. 02:43.710 --> 02:49.770 So if I set the static page front page to home then what happens is I have to set the Post's page to 02:49.770 --> 02:51.120 another page. 02:51.120 --> 02:58.350 So what we should do is pages select Add new and I'm going to control click that again or command click 02:58.380 --> 03:05.760 if you're on a Mac and then type in blog or articles or posts and rename this page to whatever you want 03:05.760 --> 03:11.790 your posts page to be in Slyke publish that page isn't going to show up here on the post page until 03:11.790 --> 03:19.050 we say save pages and then now that we've refreshed this page it sees all of the published pages. 03:19.110 --> 03:24.450 So I can now select our Post's page to be the blog or you don't need a post page if you're not going 03:24.450 --> 03:27.670 to be adding posts to your Web site and click save. 03:27.690 --> 03:34.130 Now if we go back to our site and we go to Ebner designs dot com and refresh. 03:34.200 --> 03:39.150 We're at the home page now and if we click on this icon right here which is our site title which will 03:39.150 --> 03:44.820 be changing in the next lesson we go to the home page which is that home page that we set up to get 03:44.820 --> 03:46.380 to the blog article. 03:46.380 --> 03:53.370 You could go to Ebner designs dot com slash blog or what we'll do in a future lesson is at a menu that 03:53.430 --> 03:55.480 has links directly to this page. 03:55.500 --> 04:01.710 So that's how you add a new page and that's also how you set your home page to a separate static page. 04:01.710 --> 04:02.520 Thanks for watching. 04:02.520 --> 04:08.310 And in the next lessons we'll be changing that site title and also editing the page to make it look 04:08.520 --> 04:09.320 really awesome.