Homepage options

By default the Home page will highlight the latest blog posts.  But you can set any of the available pages as home page. This can be done using WordPress built in functionality.

Just go to Settings -> Readings and set up the “Front page displays” settings.

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Note that by selecting a page that uses a Custom Page Template you’ll be able to have on the Home page the latest galleries, latest videos, a full width page or just any other page.

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Check the following video to see how you can set up the home page, the video refers to another theme, but the process is similar:

You can also enable a landing page.

Landing page (or splash page) – is page of a Web site that the user sees first before being given the option to continue to the main content of the site. Splash pages are used to promote a company, service or product or are used to inform the user of what kind of software or browser is necessary in order to view the rest of the site’s pages.

This can be done selecting the Home page option in the Flothemes tab and setting “Activate landing page” to yes:

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Upon doing so you will be offered with the possibility to choose the page you wish to serve as the landing page for your site. In order to do so you only need to start typing the name of the respective page, and the auto-fill option will feature all the pages starting with respective letter combinations.

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For more details how to set up a  landing page check the video below: