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- Go to YouTube and select the video to use as your background
- Select the Fullscreen option
- Pause your video
- Create a screenshot of the opening scene of the video without any controls or text showing
- Go to Pages => All Pages
- Select the Home Page you created and set to your Front Page
- Set the screenshot image as your Featured Image for the page (Important: you should also resize the image to 1800px in width as a max)
- Press Update
- If the first scene shows up as a static image before the video plays, then you have set the image as your background to the home page