I am using wordpress 2.7.1. What I did was to create a page in wordpress (I called it home) with the static content I needed for the front page. I then went to Settings –> Reading Settings and chose “static page” for the “front page displays” option. I chose the home page I created earlier for the front page. I then used the exclude pages plugin by Simon Wheatley to hide the “home” page I created. Simple and straight forward once you discover the plugin mentioned above 🙂
