Tuesday, January 5, 2016

Designing a Custom Home Page for Your WordPress Website

WordPress is used on a large portion of sites on the web. It allows us to create a variety of different types of sites, but one of the most important components of any website is always the home page. The perfect landing page will help you to reduce bounce rates, boosting traffic and customers. In this article, we'll cover how we can customize the landing page (or home page) of a WordPress website..

There are many ways to achieve this goal, this is just one way.

Overview of What We Will Cover in This Article

First, we'll complete these basic steps:

  1. Show a slider on the index page of WordPress.
  2. Show three panels for displaying a description of the products.
  3. Show two rows which contain details about your products with images and text side by side.
  4. Panels, showing your team members.

Then, we'll look at the following advanced topics:

  1. Fetching the content from another page (for example from an About Us page).
  2. Creating a sidebar for the front page only.
  3. The most important aspect will be that we can change the images of the slider from the ‘WordPress Customizer’ option. We won’t need any plugins to add a slider or create a slideshow of images.

Things We'll Need

  1. Kirki toolkit for providing options for the theme.
  2. Flexslider for providing the slider option.

Maria Antonietta Perna has covered Kiri in a previous article, if you're looking for a good introduction on the topic.

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by Nirmalya Ghosh via SitePoint

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