WordPress: front-page.php, linking to the main homepage

Question

So I have a website where a custom front page needed to be built as a static page, to do this I created front-page.php

I believe the original homepage just showed a list of posts.

The issue that I am having is that I want to link the front-page.php to the original front page of the website. I've had a look at using home.php and setting the URL on the front-page.php file to <?php echo get_permalink( get_option( 'page_for_posts' ) ); ?> but this just seemed to link to a single blog post.

Any ideas how I can resolve this?

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Go to Settings > Reading and check off A static page, Below it select Home as the Homepage. That should do the trick.