In a previous lesson, we talked about assigning a page to display your blog posts. Now, let's focus on choosing your website's homepage.

To update this setting:

• Go to Settings → Reading in the WordPress dashboard;
• Under Your homepage displays, you have two options:
  • Your latest posts: ideal for blogs or news sites where the homepage automatically shows the newest articles;
  • A static page: ideal for business sites, portfolios, and institutional websites.

If you choose A static page, you must assign:

• A Homepage: usually a page like Home, introducing your business or project;
• A Posts page: a page where your blog posts will be listed (for example, a page titled Blog or News).

👉 In this course, we are creating an institutional website. That's why we are setting the Home page as the homepage and using a separate Blog page for articles and updates.

Still under Settings → Reading, you can configure:

• The number of blog posts displayed per page (Blog pages show at most);
• How many posts appear in syndication feeds (RSS/Atom);
• Whether to display full content or a summary on the posts feed.

A good practice is to display 5 to 10 posts per page to keep navigation easy and fast.

To control visitor interaction with your content, go to Settings → Discussion.

Key settings you'll find:

• Default post settings: allow or disallow comments on new posts by default;
• Comment moderation: hold comments for manual approval;
• Email notifications: receive alerts when someone comments or a comment awaits moderation.

If you prefer full control over your comments, enable Comment must be manually approved.

Some pages, like your homepage, contact page, or privacy policy, usually don't need a comment section.

To disable comments on a specific page:

1. Go to Pages → All Pages;
2. Hover over the page and click Edit;
3. Open the Discussion panel and uncheck Allow comments;
4. Click Update.

If you don't see the Discussion panel:

• Click the three-dot menu at the top-right of the editor;
• Select Preferences, and enable it under Panels.