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Set the blog page and front page

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Set the blog page and front page

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- [Instructor] Earlier in the course, when we covered our site's Reading Settings, I left this option for your homepage displays set to your latest post. Well, now notice that the option has switched and we're using static pages for both our homepage and our Posts page. When I activated my theme, it created those pages for me and updated these settings. But in case you're working with a theme that didn't automatically add those pages or update these settings, I want to show you how you can do that. To start, let's go to Pages and view all of our pages. Now note that I have two homepages in here, or should I say two pages with the title Home. One was created when I created my account and then the second one was created when I activated the theme. Considering I hadn't made any edits or created specific content for the original homepage, I'm going to go ahead and just delete this. Now if we go open up this new homepage,…

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