This is far from a difficult thing to do. It’s actually so easy, its ridiculous. But I see so many people installing plugins and doing really complicated page template hacks to get this right, that I think a post dedicated to this is justified. Here’s the 30 second trick to getting a static front page.
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Creating a Static WordPress Front Page
Controlling custom content areas on your site
Most of the time when you’re designing a home page for a CMS based website, you’re going to have specific areas of content on your page that aren’t blog related, but that you want your client to have control over. For example their contact details, an ‘about us’ blurb, their company motto or maybe their company’s vision. There exists a really easy way in WordPress to allow for these areas to be controlled through your admin. Here’s how…
