Adding Static Home Page Content

Posted January 18th, 2007 by Mike Cherim

Some WordPress users, for SEO reasons, choose to display a paragraph of static content on their home page. If you want to do this I made it simple to implement. All you have to do is follow these steps:

In your admin, go to “Presentation” and click on the “Theme Editor.”
Open the “Main Index Template” file.

In that file you will see the following near the top:

 <!−−
 <h2>Some Static Home Page Heading</h2>
  <div class="post">
    <div class="entrytext">
     <p>This will be your static home page content.</p>
    </div>
  </div>
 <div class="hr"><hr /></div>
 −−>

Edit the example heading and the example paragraph with your content
Remove the comment marks hiding the content: <!−− and −−>.
Click “Update File” and check it out.

When entering this content you may want to use fancy typographer’s quotes and whatnot in your content so it’ll match the blog’s content. Example:

To write a leading quote…: Use this: “
To write a trailing quote…: Use this: ”
To write a fancy apostrophe…: Use this: ’
To write an elipses…: Use this: …
To write an m-dash…: Use this: —

That’s it.

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