How i can customize WordPress front page in WP dashboard editor?

You can use Elementor plugin. Elementor is quickly growing in popularity and is another impressive freemium page builder plugin for WordPress. With a good selection of widgets and page templates in the free version, Elementor is certainly competitive. So let’s find out if it should be your page builder plugin of choice.

How to access the so called “Posts page”

http://codex.wordpress.org/Settings_Reading_Screen “Posts page – Select in the drop-down box the name of the Page that will now contain your Posts. If you do not select a Page here, your Posts will only be accessible via other navigation features such as category, calendar, or archive links. Even if the selected Page is Password protected, visitors will … Read more

What is the advantage of using home.php over index.php for the front page

If you look here [is_home vs is_front_page] you’ll see that is_front_page() is true regardless of what the homepage is set to in the WordPress settings. This means that if you don’t plan on releasing this publicly (i.e. short-run usage) then just having a front-page.php should suffice. is_home() is set based on your blogs page (which … Read more

Front page welcome message area

Create a page theme, then call it in index.php: $recent = new WP_Query( ‘page_id=**ID**’ ); while ( $recent->have_posts() ) : $recent->the_post(); ?><h3><?php the_title(); ?></h3><?php the_content(); endwhile;

How to display only sticky posts on my automatically generated front page?

WordPress saves sticky posts inside the option named sticky_posts. You can retrieve them via get_option(‘sticky_posts’). With that knowledge it is possible to change the query to only query for sticky posts, you usually do so via the pre_get_posts hook. add_action(‘pre_get_posts’, ‘WPSE_home_only_stickies’); function WPSE_home_only_stickies($query) { // only run for homepage & main query if ($query->is_home() && … Read more

No posts on front page

You don’t say if you are on wordpress.com or self-hosted, or which theme you are using. Does it help to look at WordPress display posts shortcode and put [display-posts] into your page content? https://en.support.wordpress.com/display-posts-shortcode/ If you are self-hosting and your theme supports it (most do), the Display Posts plugin enables and extends this function to … Read more