Adding a home page link
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I have created a home page as per the instructions on the FAQ page, but I do not know how to link that page with the two posts that I have. When I go to one of my post pages, how do I link back to my home page?
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Can you give us links to your blog, your Home page, and your Post pages? Then we can advise you. Usually the Home page is the main blog page and automatically displays the blog posts. But if we can’t see the blog, we can’t say what’s going on.
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Okay, the page you call HOME is actually the blog page. When you have more posts, they will go on top of the one that’s there. Your static pages are About Me and Books.
Don’t worry about linking back to your home page: the title of your blog is a link to the home page. Or if you want, you can put a link in a Text Widget and call it Back to the Blog or whatever you like.
http://faq.wordpress.com/2006/12/24/using-the-text-widget/Also check out this FAQ for the difference between a Post and a Page.
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How do I make the page called HOME into a static page, one that never changes and nothing is added to? And then are About Me and Books pages that I can add to whenever I want and that can be commented on? I thought I understood pages and posts, but I guess not. Also, when I add a Recent Comments widget to my side bar, everything else disappears. What’s up with that?
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Okay here’s the scoop. You choose any page and make it into a static front page called “Home” with information that never changes but there’s a downside to doing so.
(1) Most of readers want to read your blog posts. By creating a static front page you are removing their option to choose what to read. Basically you are compelling every one of your readers to read another page first before they get to your posts.
(2) Once you build a readership most of your readers will be a group that you are compelling to click through a page they have read many, many times before over and over again just to get to your blog posts. This will quickly become annoying to any of your regular readers.
(3) There is a lack of Google juice used to determine your blog’s page rank if you go with a static front page.Assign a Static Front Page
-> Options -> Reading
Reading Options
Front Page
Front page displays:
Your latest posts
A static page (select below)
* Front page:
* Posts page:Click “Update Options” to save when you are done.
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So what I should be doing is having all entries as Posts and not Pages. Thanks for your help.
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A blog has only one page that will automatically update with every new post you publish.
By assigning your Categories to posts you make them accessible to your readers in different ways.
(1) If your readers click on the Categories assigned to a post they will be directed to the wordpress.com Category Tag pages (global tags – the whole wordpress.com community blog posts assigned to that Category}.
(2) If your readers click on a Category in your sidebar they will be able to access every post on your own blog that you assigned to that category (blog specific tags}.Here’s a link to some basic resources https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic.php?id=11280
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Ok. I got rid of the Home page. By leaving the category tags in my sidebar, will readers then get the new blogs if they click on the appropriate tag? And I need to create any new blogs using the Post section (not the Page section) and adding it under the correct tag. Right? Thanks again for the help.
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I’m going to give you some links to click so you can see how one of my blogs works. That way you can get some experience clicking around and learning what’s possible while you do.
Home page – recent blog posts http://bloggersblurt.wordpress.com/
Latest post title RSS FeedsTubetorial
Note the 3 Categories assigned to that post and click just the first one. It will take you to a global wordpress.com tag page http://wordpress.com/tag/connecting-with-bloggers/
Now go to the sidebar and find the Categories widget. Locate the same Category and see how it will supply all the titles of all the posts in my blog (59) that I assigned that Category “Connecting with bloggers” to.
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I’m off to bed. I’m still quite confused but truely appreciate your help. I’ll try this again in the morning. Thanks very much.
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