tomaja

@saveongolf, @chappie it is possible, please check this thread for solution

@chappie for better and filtered search results use this snippet

Front page setting can be found at Customize option in WP admin area, e.g. yourdomain.com/wp-admin/customize.php
Basically, your setting for front page is set to “your latest posts”. You can remove those posts by setting front page display to some static page or even nothing. Also, I recommend to you this great documentation page.

You can read customizr slider documentation, its quite good and easy to follow

I really dont understand your first problem, can you explain some more. For second you can use the redirection plugin, by creating empty page which will be then redirected to whatever custom URL you want.

Did you try to remove some of the widgets ? Maybe some of the plugins you use dont work with wp 3.7.1

For title

.marketing h2 {
display: none;
}

For “read more” button

.btn.btn-primary.fp-button {
display: none;
}

You can try with

.carousel-caption .btn {
float: right;
}

What I did to achieve this was to create an empty page with name “blog”. Then select in options (yoursite.com/wp-admin/options-reading.php or yoursite.com/wp-admin/customize.php look at Front Page tab) that static content is shown on the front page and your new blog page to act as post page.
Only thing you have to do after that is to add link to the same page in your main menu.