Edit your WP home page
A free plugin adds a chat to your WP dashboard. Type “Change the big heading to Mugs made by hand.” See it first, press the button, undo in one click.
For a home page set in Settings › Reading. Not one your theme builds. How to check yours
- Nothing changes without your OK
- Undo in one click, or a warning first
- No account, no password to share
Needs WP 6.3 to 7.1, PHP 8.0 or newer, and an administrator login. One site per install.
The download is a plugin. Turning it on connects your site to cmshands.com and adds 3 small rescue files. Deleting the plugin removes them and everything it stored. What we send
On the home page, change the big heading to “Mugs made by hand”.
Watch it do this on a real site
You ask
You type what you want in the chat in your WP dashboard. You don't need the heading's exact words: “the big heading” was enough.
On the home page, change the big heading to “Mugs made by hand”.
You see it first
It found the home page, read it and came back with a card: a picture of the page with the new heading. Nothing on the site has changed yet. Its first try at the card didn't work, so it tried again.
Ready for you to review — the heading is the big one over the photo at the top of the home page (a page), and everything else on the page is untouched.
- 3 secondsLooking for what you meant
- Reading one of your pages
- 5 secondsReading one of your pages
- 7 secondsPreparing the change for your OK
- 9 secondsPreparing the change for your OK
- Previewing your page
Check it on a phone
The same card has a phone view. Its Now tab shows the page as it is today, and Code shows the exact lines that change. Take as long as you like: nothing happens until you press.
You press the button
Only now does it change the site. It updated the home page, read it back to check, and the card turned green with an Undo link.
- 40 secondsUpdating one of your pages
- 41 secondsChecking the change
It's on the site
The test site's home page right after, as a visitor sees it. The big heading over the photo is new. The rest of the page is as it was.
Done. I checked afterwards, and it now says "Mugs made by hand".
Undo, if you want
One press of Undo put the old heading back. It checked again and showed what it put back: the new words in red, the old ones in green.
Undone. I checked afterwards, and it's back the way it was.
- 49 secondsReverting the change
- Checking the change
A real run on our test site, Quillmoor Pottery (WP 7.1.3, Twenty Twenty-Four), Oct 10, 2026. From asking to done, it took 41 seconds.
That's the whole job. The plugin is free: 3 changes to try it, no account. Nothing changes until you press the button.
Needs WP 6.3 to 7.1, PHP 8.0 or newer, and an administrator login. One site per install.
The download is a plugin. Turning it on connects your site to cmshands.com and adds 3 small rescue files. Deleting the plugin removes them and everything it stored. What we send
How to edit the home page in WordPress yourself
Checked on WP 7.1, Oct 11, 2026
1. In your dashboard, go to Settings › Reading. Under Your homepage displays, the page in the Homepage list is your home page.
2. Go to Pages. WP marks your home page with “— Front Page” after its name. Click the name to open it.
3. The page opens in the editor. Click the words you want to change, like the big heading, and type the new ones.
4. To add a line, click where it should go, press the blue + button at the top left and choose Paragraph.
5. Press Save at the top right. Your visitors see nothing new until you do.
6. Open your site in a new tab and look at the home page. Check it on your phone too.
On an older (classic) theme, the kind with Appearance › Customize instead of Editor, the steps are the same: your home page is still a page. CMSHands changes its words the same way too. So far we've only seen the card's picture of the new page on a block theme, like our test site's. The header, menu and footer around it come from your theme, often under Appearance › Customize.
In the editor you may see the page's name, “Home”, above the big photo, as in step 3. Visitors don't see it on our test site: the page uses the Page No Title template. You'll find it under Template in the Page panel on the right.
What it won't do here
Page-builder home pages
A home page your theme builds itself
New photos
Picking a different home page
Why it won't wreck your site
Nothing changes until you press the button.
You see it first.
One click undoes it.
Free to start
| No account | With your email | Paid plan | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Changes | 3 to try it | 10 every month | Coming. Nothing costs money until you choose it. |
| Questions | 30 a day | 100 a day | |
| If it breaks | Daily check and crash rescue | The same, plus email alerts |
Undo a change within 24 hours and it doesn't count. If you haven't added an email after 30 days, only crash rescue stays on until you add one. A change is one card you approve. A job that touches several pages or plugins is several changes.
Questions
Where is the home page in WordPress?
In Settings › Reading. If Your homepage displays is set to A static page, the page in the Homepage list is your home page. Some call it the main or front page. Under Pages it's marked “— Front Page”. Open it there and edit it like any other page.
Why can't I find my home page under Pages?
Your site probably shows your latest posts on the home page, so no page is chosen in Settings › Reading. Then your theme builds the home page from a template. On a block theme, edit it in Appearance › Editor, under Templates. On an older theme, look in Appearance › Customize or the theme's own settings.
My theme's own front page is my home. Does it work?
We haven't tested that yet. If Settings › Reading shows no page chosen, ask us first. A home page picked there, like the one in our test run, works.
How do I make a different page my home page?
In Settings › Reading, choose A static page, pick the page in the Homepage list and press Save Changes. Your old home page stays as a normal page. CMSHands doesn't switch this setting for you: we haven't tested it yet.
Can I undo changes to my home page?
Yes. WP keeps a copy each time you save: open the page, press the number next to Revisions on the right, pick an older copy and press Restore This Revision. With CMSHands, press Undo on the card. In our test run it put the old heading back, and the assistant said: “Undone. I checked afterwards, and it's back the way it was.”
Is it free?
To start, yes: 3 changes with no account, then 10 a month once you add your email. Questions are free, up to 30 a day (100 with your email).
Written by CMSHands team.
Try it on your own home page
Needs WP 6.3 to 7.1, PHP 8.0 or newer, and an administrator login. One site per install.
The download is a plugin. Turning it on connects your site to cmshands.com and adds 3 small rescue files. Deleting the plugin removes them and everything it stored. What we send
Download the plugin.
It's free: 3 changes to try it. No account, no card.
Upload and activate it.
In your dashboard: Plugins › Add Plugin › Upload Plugin (Add New Plugin on older WP). Choose the file, press Install Now, then Activate Plugin.
Press Turn on.
Press Turn on CMSHands. No account, no key, no password.