The home page of this demo site is created using the Alternate Home Page template, which is a fully widgetized page. In this brief tutorial, we’ll give you the specific widgets and/or code that we used for each widget.

Alternate Home Page Widgetized Areas

In your WP dashboard, click Appearance >> Widgets, and you will see 5 different widgetized areas for the Alternate Home Page.

1. Alt Home Page Full-Width Top
2. Alt Home Page Left (One-Third Width)
3. Alt Home Page Middle (One-Third Width)
4. Alt Home Page Right (One-Third Width)
5. Alt Home Page Full-Width Bottom

Specific Widgets Used in Each Area

Alt Home Page Full-Width Top

1. Widget 1: Full-Width Featured Pages Slider

2. Widget 2: Welcome Box Widget with the Following Code:

3. Widget 3: Text Widget with the Following Code:

4. Widget 4: Line Break Widget

Alt Home Page Left

1. Widget 1: Featured Post Widget

Alt Home Page Middle

1. Widget 1: Subscribe Box Widget

Alt Home Page Right

1. Widget 1: Featured Page Widget

Alt Home Page Full-Width Bottom

1. Widget 1: Line Break Widget

2. Widget 2: Featured Category Slider

3. Widget 3: Text Widget with the Following Code:

4. Widget 4: Line Break Widget

5. Widget 5: Text Widget with the Following Code:

6. Widget 6: Line Break Widget

7. Widget 7: Text Widget with the Following Code:

8. Widget 8: Line Break Widget

9. Widget 9: Text Widget with the Following Code:

10. Widget 10: Line Break Widget

11. Widget 11: Full-Width Featured Posts Slider Widget

Optional Step: Select Page as the Home Page

After you publish the page, you may want to use it as your home page. To do that, you’ll just need to change the site settings. In your WP dashboard, click Settings >> Reading, and select “Static Page” for the “Front page display” field. In the drop-down list of pages, select the new page you just created. You may also want to create a separate page to serve as your Blog page, and you would need to select that page as the Posts Page.