When you first load up a new Drupal site, the front page of your site shows this message:
"No front page content has been created yet".
You can click "Add new content" and start writing. If you do that, your content will start to stack up, just like a stream of blog posts.
But what happens if you don't want a stream of blog posts for your frontpage? Here are several solutions.
Option #1. Put a single node on the frontpage
This is the easiest solution:
- Find the URL of an existing Drupal content item that you want to use for the frontpage.
- Go to Configuration > Site information.
- Change the "Default front page" option to the URL that you selected. By default, the option says "node". However, you need to change this to "node/3/" or another, simiilar URL.
Note: you don't have to use a single node for this choice. You could also enter the URL of a View or a Panel into this space.
Option #2. Use the Empty Front Page module
Our first approach simply replaced the frontpage content with another node.
Our second approach will remove nodes from the homepage entirely.
- Install and enable the "Empty Front Page" module.
- Your homepage will now be blank, with only blocks showing.
This option is useful if you only want to display blocks on your homepage.
Option #3. Different homepage for different user groups
Our third approach shows you how to create a different homepage for different user groups:
- Install and enable the "Front Page" module.
- Go to Configuration > Front Page.
- Check the box "Front Page Override".
- You will now be able to choose a frontpage for each user group:
