Almost 90% of blogs use the list of most recent posts as a homepage. However, if you prefer to use a static page as a homepage, the choice is yours. This technique allows you to use WordPress and create different kinds of web sites—not only blogs.
Nothing special is needed here. The possibility of using a static page as a homepage is built-in in the WordPress—however, a lot of bloggers aren't aware of it.
In this recipe, we will learn how to set up a static page as a homepage for your blog, though, we won't create the entire page for you. Now that you have learned how to create and use page templates, setting up a homepage shouldn't be a problem.