Use Static Page as homepage in WordPress
As you know, WordPress is built on PHP Platform. It uses dynamic homepage. But what, when we want to use a static page built with HTML, or any other language. For WordPress
http://www.yoururl.com/index
and
http://www.yoururl.com/index.php
are both different. SO if we want to use static page as homepage in WordPress, Insert below code in your theme’s function.php file.
remove_filter('template_redirect', 'redirect_canonical');
Make sure you will add the above code before ?>