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Two Home Menu Items After Setting Static Front Page in WordPress
Yesterday, I wrote about “Using WordPress as a Regular Website with a Static Front Page”, in which I wrote:
As long as your WordPress theme already supports it, that’s really all there is to it! You will now have a static landing page called “Home” and a blog attached to it (if you chose to set it).
Well, as it so happens, I was working on a site when I wrote this article. Up until that point, I have created WordPress sites with a static front page without any incident, but I forgot to put up an article about it. Well, I’ve been trying out a brand new cool WordPress theme, TechGo. I did what I normally do, and there they are: two Home menu items. This is the first theme that I’ve had this issue with.
Using WordPress as a Regular Website with a Static Front Page
WordPress is a great platform. Bloggers all over know and love the platform, and there aren’t many limits if you pay for hosting. There are many plugins you can add to it that can make it do just about anything short of backflips. For example, you can create a WordPress site that looks like a storefront selling products like store.johndscomputers.com does.
However, WordPress is really just a blogging platform, right? Turning it into a storefront is all well and good, but surely you couldn’t use it for a “regular” website, right? Right?
So, what is a “regular” website? Isn’t it just a website with a landing page, some other pages and perhaps some subpages to go to? So, how is this really different than a blog with static pages other than the fact that the landing page varies? Think about it. In WordPress, you create a page, and the page shows up on the top as a link that you click on to navigate to the page.
