The Megaphone theme provides some handy options to create your homepage (front page). You can access the front page settings in Appearance -> Customize -> Theme Options -> Front Page, and make sure you are looking at your front page on the right when using these settings.
General settings
The first thing that you would want to set up is the general tab where you can optionally enable/disable and re-order sections that are provided for the front page template, then you can manage the appearance of each area separately through its subsection.
Front page areas
- Welcome area – represents a place for your “about” text or your “punchline”.
- Featured area – represents a place to display episodes that you want to point out, such as most popular or recent episodes, or episodes in your most important category, etc…
- Shows area – this section lists your Shows (episode categories) which can be quite useful if your website is not a “single category” podcast and you have episodes organized by multiple groups.
- Episodes area – represents a section which displays lits of your latest episodes in a blog-like manner
- Blog area– represents a place to display classic blog post listing of your latest articles
Note: Using the WordPress default front page setup
If you don’t want to use the Megaphone front page template, you can simply disable it in the Appearance -> Customize -> Theme Options -> Front Page -> General section. By disabling this option, the theme will ignore all of the settings and you can then choose to display your “Latest posts” or “A static page”, the two options that you get by default in WordPress under Settings -> Reading.