Build a magazine front page

You have seen a demo, you want something like it, and the settings panel has hundreds of controls with no hint about where to start. This page gives you an order to do things in.

It is an example, not a canon. Sections can be combined, dropped, and added. The sequence is the value here, not the exact set.

By the end you will have a working front page in one sitting, one you can make more or less elaborate later without starting over.

#Three ways to do the same thing

Decide this first, because the steps below describe results rather than clicks.

The Customizer

The fastest route. The front page is assembled from the built-in settings in about five minutes.

The block editor

When the front page should be an ordinary page built in the editor.

Elementor

When you need full freedom over the layout.

See The front page, Registered blocks, and How Verba uses Elementor.

The choice of tool does not change the listing settings. The post listing is the same everywhere. You are choosing how the page is assembled, not what it can do.

#The six steps

#Making it yours

Simpler: drop the taxonomy list and the featured section, leaving the header, one list, and the footer. That is already a correct front page.

More elaborate: add a second themed section between steps four and five, a promo strip, or an insertion inside the list. See Content zones and insertions, Call to action, and the promo bar.

#Check the result

• The page on a phone, since the narrow layout and pill navigation behave differently there

• No post appears twice anywhere on the page

• Load more adds posts without the page jumping

Success looks like this: the front page reads as a selection rather than a feed, and it was assembled with built-in settings without a line of custom CSS.

Last updated 22 Sep 2026