A Be Right Back Page?
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My friend has a wordpress.com blog and when hackers are on the loose or he is updating he somehow gets his blog to only display one page that he edited to put a BE RIGHT BACK sign on it. HOW? I want to do it on my blog.
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I would not recommend creating a static front page for this purpose. That said, here is how to do it.
By default the front page of your blog displays all published posts (not pages) in reverse chronological order, with the most recently published post on top. That is for the convenience of your returning visitors, who come to read your latest post, and who are not likely to be happy with being compelled to click through the same static page with the same blah, blah, blah on it every time they visit the blog looking for the latest post.
However, if you do not want all the posts to show on the front page, and know that static front pages are traffic killers, then you can create a static front page called for example “Welcome” for your site and a “Blog” page for posts. To do that create two pages first http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/
After you do that you go to > Settings > Reading and make the designation change and click “save changes”.
http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/front-page/A static page (select below)
Front page:
Posts page: -
Know that anyone who claims a static front page prevents hacking is speaking nonsense. I would also like to point out that whenever bloggers here claim a blog is hacked, and in every case of weevil kids and penguin kids experiencing a hacked blog, the hackers were provided with every thing they need by the kids themselves. Please read this and comply with what is in it so you do not experience any hacking http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2014/03/02/how-to-keep-your-blog-safe/
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I mean like, you can not see any other pages anymore – the only page is that one. Do you just make them private?
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As I said above. I do not recommend creating a static front page and doing so does not prevent hacking at all.
I mean like, you can not see any other pages anymore – the only page is that one. Do you just make them private?
That is because making that static front page decision (1) which I do not recommend, and (2) which does not prevent hacking, requires setting up a custom menu http://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/ and adding pages into it. http://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/#adding-pages
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Please read the post I linked to and act on it. Then spread the word to any other bloggers who think that setting up a static front page prevents being hacked because that is simply not true.
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