Should Your Blog Have a Static Homepage (Whatever That Means)?

Open up a new tab in your browser and go to the homepage of your blog.
What do you see?
There’s a good chance you see your most recent posts. This is, after all, what most WordPress themes default do. And if you’ve been blogging for a long time, it might be how you expect a blog’s homepage to look.
For some bloggers, it’s a perfectly good choice. But for others, a list of posts isn’t what they want first-time readers to see.
Many large blogs use a static homepage to