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Change the landing page of my blog

Or: So, How do I change the homepage of my blog to be a different page. For some blogs, the posts are not the primary content. To modify what the landing page of your blog is, you can use this neat workaround. Copy the path of the page you want to redirect to, e.g. /p/mypage.html Go to  blogger.com  > (Your blog) > Settings > Search preferences. Under Errors and Redirections , there is Custom Redirects. Hit 'Edit' Set From to '/' Set To to the path in step 1, e.g. /p/mypage.html Tick permanent Save. Now, navigating to your blog's homepage will redirect. But wait! I still want to be able to get to the homepage! No problemo, all you need to do is modify your Page List widget navigation Home  link. Currently, it's just the home page. Let's change it to a search, with no criteria.  Go to the Layout tab Find your Page List widget Untick 'Home' Click '+Add external link' Set the url to your blog's url with /s