Wordpress: create a custom home page

Question

I want to create a website using wordpress, but I want my website to have a customized home page, created by me, completely different from the theme of the site, and then link the wordpress pages directly from my page.

Is this possible? How can I achieve this? Can I simply create the page, and link the other created with the wordpress panel, without breaking everything?

Answer 1

According to official WordPress codex:

If a visitor goes to your home page at http://example.com/blog/, the following happens:

1. WordPress first determines whether it has a static front page. If a static front page has been set, then WordPress loads that page according to the page template hierarchy.
2. If a static front page has not been set, then WordPress looks for a template file called home.php and uses it to generate the requested page.
3. If home.php is missing, WordPress looks for a file called index.php in the active theme's directory, and uses that template to generate the page.

Therefore you just need to create a home.php template and place it with the other theme (which so ever theme you will use) templates and WordPress will automatically start using home.php template for the home page.