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What is Homepage and How to Create a Custom Homepage for WordPress Website?

The term Homepage is a regularly used word in WordPress. In this post will check what is a Homepage and How to Create a Custom Homepage for WordPress Website?

What is a Homepage in WordPress?

The term Home or Homepage is referred to the front page or main page of your website. By default, WordPress will show your posts in reverse chronological order (most recent post appears first) on your website home page.

Custom Homepage or Static FrontPage is a great feature in WordPress that helps to separate the blog content from other sections and add welcoming information on the front page. You can create a custom homepage for your blog to make it fully functioned website.

How to Create a Custom Homepage for WordPress Website?

You can add a static homepage to your website as the front page and need to assign another page to publish your posts. Follow this step by step guide to create a custom Homepage for WordPress Website.

Step 1: Before assigning a static front page to your website, you need to create and publish home page and blog page on your WordPress website.

Create a Home Page:

In your WordPress dashboard, go to Settings >> Pages and click on add new to create a new page and name it as Home.

Under page attributes, select the appropriate template from the drop-down box under templates. Most WordPress themes comes with custom page templates to change the look for static front pages. If your theme has front page template option, select the same from the drop-down list or select default template.

Do not add any content in the content area and hit publish.

Create a Blog Page:

Next, you need another page for blog posts. In the same way, create another page and name it as Blog.

Under page attributes, select the appropriate template from the drop-down box under templates. A lot of WordPress themes comes with Blog template. If your theme has Blog template option, select the same from the drop-down list or select default template.

Custom Homepage for WordPress Website

Do not add any content in the content area and hit publish.

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Beginners Guide, Glossary, Wordpress ·

What Is Gallery And How To Create An Image Gallery In WordPress?

Image Galleries are the best way to showcase your multiple pictures in one place. We can easily create and post Image Galleries in WordPress. In this post, we will check what is Gallery and How to Create an Image Gallery in WordPress with and without a plugin.

What is Gallery?

The gallery is a collection of pictures. WordPress has its own built-in create Image Gallery feature that allows you to add multiple images to a post or page in a single step.

You can easily upload images using add media option to post or pages in WordPress. However, if you add multiple images, those images will appear one by one and viewer need to scroll a lot to see all images. By creating an image gallery, images will display in a grid layout. Readers can click on thumbnails to launch a full-size image. With the slideshow option, images will automatically move from one to another with a certain time gap.

Image Galleries are the great way to showcase your pictures professionally in less space to your viewers.

How to Create an Image Gallery in WordPress?

You can create an Image Gallery in WordPress using 2 methods. You can easily create a gallery using WordPress built-in create Image Gallery feature and another one is using a plugin. Let’s check how to create an Image Gallery in WordPress using both methods.

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Glossary, Wordpress ·

What is Functions.php in WordPress and how to edit Functions.php file?

Functions.php is a theme file used to change and define the WordPress behavior and functions. The Functions.php or a function file acts as a WordPress plugin which helps to add new features and extend the functionalities of a WordPress site through PHP code.

Every theme has its own Functions.php file and can be found in your WordPress theme directory. Even though you’ve installed so many themes on your WordPress site and every theme has its own function file, only active theme file will run its code and apply functions to your WordPress website.

If your theme doesn’t have functions file, you can add one to your theme directory by creating a text file and named it functions.php. Now you can add your own functions to your theme.

A Child theme has its own functions.php file that used to modify your WordPress theme without making any changes to the parent theme files.

How to edit Functions.php file in WordPress?

You can easily access your theme Functions.php file through your WordPress dashboard.

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Blogging, Glossary, Wordpress ·

What is Featured image in WordPress?

Featured image is a frequently used term in WordPress Glossary. In this post will check about the Featured image in WordPress, enabling support for Featured image, changing the post thumbnail sizes and How to add Featured image in WordPress.

What is Featured image in WordPress?

Featured image (sometimes called as post thumbnail) is a theme feature which allows developers to chose and add a representative image for post, page and custom post types.

A featured image represents the content, mood or theme of the post. A post can have a single featured image.

How to enable support for Featured image:

To add Featured image Support to a WordPress Theme, Login into your WordPress dashboard and go to Appearance > editor. Now click on function.php file and add below code and save the file.

add_theme_support( ‘post-thumbnails’ );

Now, Featured image Support enabled to your WordPress Theme.  Go to post edit screen of any post and click on screen option. Now you’ll find Featured image option there. Make sure to enable Featured image option by simply clicking on the checkbox in screen options.

Featured image

Set the Post Thumbnail Size:

The default image sizes of WordPress are a thumbnail, medium, large and the original size. WordPress allows you to change the media settings under WordPress settings that will affect newly uploaded images.

Once you uploaded the images, WordPress will store the original images without doing any modifications. After it becomes an attachment when it is inserted into any post, the system will modify the dimensions to the original image as per media settings.

In order to change the media settings, go to settings >> Media in WordPress dashboard and configure the image sizes as per your needs.

Featured image

How to add a Featured image to your WordPress post?

To add a Featured image to your WordPress post, First login to your WordPress dashboard and follow these steps.

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Blogging, Glossary ·

Who is Editor in WordPress?

This post is the part of WordPress Glossary terms. The Editor is another term in WordPress glossary and lets check Editor role Permissions and limitations within the WordPress website.

Who is Editor in WordPress?

WordPress comes with a built-in user management system that allows you to create a single user website to multiple user websites managed by an administrator. Every user has its own predefined roles with own limitations.

The term Editor refers to a user role in WordPress having access to create, edit, publish and delete posts including other user’s posts.

Editors can edit the comments published on their posts. They can moderate, approve and delete comments. A user with editor role can upload the files and images. They can also manage categories, links and custom taxonomies.

Editor Permissions:

  • Create, edit and publish the posts and pages
  • Delete posts and pages of their own including private post and pages
  • Delete posts and pages of other users including private post and pages
  • Edit posts and pages including other users
  • Manage categories and links
  • Moderate, approve and delete comments
  • Upload the files and images

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