[Support request] Changing my home page

[John]

Years ago before I discovered the awesomeness of GeneratePress, I installed WordPress in its own directory and used a simple, minimalist index.html file for my home page. That worked fine until I found GeneratePress and saw all the home page designs you cool people are coming up with.

I’d love to use GP to design a new home page. To do that, is my only option migrating the WordPress files to the main directory and then creating a static home page in WordPress? Or can I design a cool page in GP and use that as my index file somehow? Or is there some other option available?

Thanks for any help you can offer.

[Leo]

Hi there,

I’m not quite sure what you mean?

Looks like your current home page is the blog page. If you want to use a static page, you can create one then assign it in Settings > Readings.

Let me know if this helps.

[John]

Hi Leo. The home page I want to spruce up with GP is not part of my WordPress directory. I think the solution is migrating my files to do what you suggested, or doing a better job designing that page on my own. Thanks.

[Tom]

Yes, in order to use WP/GP for your home page, you would need to migrate WordPress into the root folder and remove the index.html file.

Let me know if you need more info 🙂

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