Title: Default Reading Settings
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Default Reading Settings

 *  [-wp-user-](https://wordpress.org/support/users/-wp-user-/)
 * (@-wp-user-)
 * [12 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/default-reading-settings/)
 * Is there any way or a plugin that anyone knows of that will make the default 
   settings for my Network sites a static front page?
 * I have a template page front-page.php, I’d like that to be the default landing
   page when my custom theme is activated, not posts/a blog page.

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 *  Moderator [Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ipstenu/)
 * (@ipstenu)
 * 🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist
 * [12 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/default-reading-settings/#post-4449215)
 * In theory if you set that theme as the default theme, and used this plugin, you
   should be good: [http://wordpress.org/plugins/wpmu-new-blog-defaults/](http://wordpress.org/plugins/wpmu-new-blog-defaults/)
 * Put this in your wp-config to define the default theme:
 *     ```
       define('WP_DEFAULT_THEME', 'mytheme');
       ```
   
 *  Thread Starter [-wp-user-](https://wordpress.org/support/users/-wp-user-/)
 * (@-wp-user-)
 * [12 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/default-reading-settings/#post-4449271)
 * The wp-config default is perfect.
 * I installed the WPMU plugin but it doesn’t seem to have the ability to predetermine
   the reading settings for new sites…am I missing something?
 * Thanks for your help!
 *  Moderator [Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ipstenu/)
 * (@ipstenu)
 * 🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist
 * [12 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/default-reading-settings/#post-4449291)
 * It adds a new submenu called “New Blog Defaults” to the Settings section on the
   Network Admin page.
 * Does it not have the reading settings? (It’s been a while since I’ve used it)
 *  Thread Starter [-wp-user-](https://wordpress.org/support/users/-wp-user-/)
 * (@-wp-user-)
 * [12 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/default-reading-settings/#post-4449319)
 * It has reading settings, but there is no area to set the front page display:
   
   [http://www.image-share.com/ijpg-2384-99.html](http://www.image-share.com/ijpg-2384-99.html)
 * I found [this in a link](http://kuttler.eu/code/set-static-front-page-and-blog-page-programmatically-in-wordpress/)
   in the [codex](http://codex.wordpress.org/Creating_a_Static_Front_Page), but 
   it doesn’t seem to work in my functions.php, if you have any suggestions there:
 *     ```
       <?php
   
       // Use a static front page
       $about = get_page_by_title( 'About' );
       update_option( 'page_on_front', $about->ID );
       update_option( 'show_on_front', 'page' );
   
       // Set the blog page
       $blog   = get_page_by_title( 'Blog' );
       update_option( 'page_for_posts', $blog->ID );
   
       // Switch to our theme
       //switch_theme( 'Template', 'stylesheet' );
       ?>
       ```
   
 *  Moderator [Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ipstenu/)
 * (@ipstenu)
 * 🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist
 * [12 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/default-reading-settings/#post-4449322)
 * Bah :/ Probably because you can’t know what the page IDs would be…
 * Don’t put that in your functions.php, it wont’ run unless the same theme is ALREADY
   active. Also it will force the settings for everyone, even if people want to 
   change later.
 * This would be better: [http://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/106377/set-static-page-as-default-front-page-on-newly-created-sites-in-multisite](http://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/106377/set-static-page-as-default-front-page-on-newly-created-sites-in-multisite)
 *  Thread Starter [-wp-user-](https://wordpress.org/support/users/-wp-user-/)
 * (@-wp-user-)
 * [12 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/default-reading-settings/#post-4449353)
 * Thank you!
    I changed the front-page.php to home.php, but it still isn’t setting
   the reading settings to static/home, even though the home page is displaying 
   as the first page…kinda odd?

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## Tags

 * [front page](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/front-page/)
 * [reading settings](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/reading-settings/)

 * In: [Networking WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/multisite/)
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 * Last activity: [12 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/default-reading-settings/#post-4449353)
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