"about" disappeared and side categories/comments

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  nats1mom · Member · Mar 3, 2012 at 6:11 pm

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  Cannot seem to locate “about” or side categories/comment senctions – new to blogging. thank you.

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  timethief · Member · Mar 3, 2012 at 6:43 pm

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  Please use the link at the bottom of your Admin page to the learn WordPress.com tutorial as I do believe it will be helpful.

  “About” is a static page > http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/
  pages and posts are not the same
  If you created a custom menu http://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/#creating-a-custom-menu and added pages to it http://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/#adding-pages-to-your-menu and they are not displaying please note the following.

  Troubleshooting – My menu isn’t appearing
  Go to the custom menu page in the dashboard Apearance > Menus and in the “theme location” module at upper left select your custom menu from the pulldown and then click “save”.

  Troubleshooting – My Pages aren’t appearing
  They must be public pages – not private.
  Public – The page will be visible to everyone.
  Protected – The page is protected with a password you set. Only people who have the password can view a protected page.
  Private – Pages are only visible to blog Editors and Administrators. Private pages are not visible in Blog Surfer, feeds, or in any search. A page can be private without being password protected.

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  timethief · Member · Mar 3, 2012 at 6:45 pm

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  We assign categories to posts (not pages). You can either put the categories widget into the sidebar, or you can create a custom menu and add the categories into the custom menu.
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/categories/
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/widgets/categories-widget/
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/

  Menus

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  timethief · Member · Mar 3, 2012 at 6:46 pm

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  All WordPress blogs have comments enabled on all posts and pages by default. This page > Settings > Discussion
  Discussion settings is where you set up defaults for comments.
  We can also override the default settings and enable or disable future comments on any post or page.
  Depending on the theme we use when we close comments a phrase like “comments closed” or a similar phrase may appear and if so, it can only be removed by CSS editing after purchasing a custom design upgrade.

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  nats1mom · Member · Mar 3, 2012 at 7:34 pm

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  Wow! thank you very much – appreciate the valuable information.

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  timethief · Member · Mar 3, 2012 at 8:19 pm

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  You’re welcome and best wishes with your blog. :)