How to Put Up a Custom Front Page in WordPress
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By default, WordPress’ front page displays a reverse chronological list of your posts – with whatever extras you chose to add, e.g. Recent Comments, Flickr, etc. This is the normal blog index, and is normally the first thing you want to “get rid of” if you want to use WP as a more web site-ish CMS. For example, you might want your front page to display only an introduction and a sitemap, or just a simple Flash movie.