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title: "How to Set Your Movable Type Homepage"
description: "In this tutorial we will show you how to set your home page for Movable Type. Movable Type creates a Main Index page by default, we will remove this page and set a page you created as the main page...."
url: https://www.inmotionhosting.com/support/edu/movable-type/home-page/
date: 2013-03-08
modified: 2024-03-11
author: "InMotion Hosting Contributor"
categories: ["Movable Type"]
type: post
lang: en
---

# How to Set Your Movable Type Homepage

In this tutorial we will show you how to set your home page for Movable Type. Movable Type creates a Main Index page by default, we will remove this page and set a page you created as the main page.

## Setting Your Homepage:

1. [Create a page in Movable Type](/support/edu/movable-type/create-new-page/) you want to be your homepage. 
2. Click the **Pages** link in the navigation menu, then click your page on the list.
3. In the publishing section on the right, click the **Edit** button under Filename.[![editing the filename in movable type dashboard](https://www.inmotionhosting.com/support/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/movable-type_edit-filename.png)](/support/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/movable-type_edit-filename.png)
4. Replace the filename with “index” (be sure to use all lower case letters). Then click the **Update** button.[![saving index.html filename in movable type](https://www.inmotionhosting.com/support/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/movable-type_update-filename.png)](/support/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/movable-type_update-filename.png)
5.  Click the **Design** link in the navigation menu. In the *Index Templates* section, click the check box beside the **Main Index** option, then click the **Delete** button.[![removing the default index page from the template](https://www.inmotionhosting.com/support/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/movable-type_delete-main-index.png)](/support/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/movable-type_delete-main-index.png)
6. Click the **Pages** link in the navigation menu, then select all pages and click the **Publish** button.[![republishing all of the pages in movable type](https://www.inmotionhosting.com/support/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/movable-type_publish-all-pages.png)](/support/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/movable-type_publish-all-pages.png) A message will pop up asking “Are you sure you want to publish this page?” click the **OK** button. The page you renamed index in Step 4 will now be your homepage.

 
Congratulations, now you know how to set your homepage in Movable Type!