As much as I love WordPress, there are quite a few elements and functions in the system that can be a bit confusing, and even ambiguous. In this article, I'm going to try to explain and unravel a few of these items.
What's the difference between the "home" page and the "front page"?
To many users, the terms "home" page and "front page" might seem like the same thing. However, in WordPress, they're treated as two different elements. The "home" page is the main page that shows blog posts. If you install WordPress and don't change any of the settings, this will be your site's front page. However, if you modify the "Settings -> Reading -> Front page displays" setting to select "A static page (see below)", and you choose a page for the "Front page" and a page for the "Posts page", the "home" page is no longer the first page on your site. Instead, the first page on your site is the "front page", now.