Site Building

5.4. Designating a Front Page for your Site for Drupal 8, 9, 10, and 11

Goal

Configure which content item is displayed as the front page of your website.

Site prerequisites

The content item that you want to designate as the front page of your site must exist. See Section 5.2, “Creating a Content Item”.

Steps

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  1. In the Manage administrative menu, navigate to Configuration > System > Basic site settings (admin/config/system/site-information).
  2. Under Front page, replace /node with the name of the page you would like to make the home page. To use the home page that was previously created, provide its path /home. Click Save configuration.

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    FRONT PAGE area with /home in text field

  3. Navigate to the home page to verify that it displays content as configured by you.

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    FRONT PAGE with Home (Basic page) content added

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