ANNOYING!!
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Hello, I am trying to set up for the first time. On my site I have a “home” page, which when clicked on displays the following message: “Not Found
Sorry, but you are looking for something that isn’t here.”….On my Edit pages, THERE IS NO SUCH HOME PAGE that I can edit or delete. Help!! How do I get rid of it, or at least edit its content?????
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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You have that error message because it had content, and you deleted it.
You deleted the placeholder post that WordPress makes to show you how the blog works. Your Home page is where the blog posts go. Make a post, and it will show up and the error will go away.
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Leave WordPress right now. Every single small easy thing you will ever try to do… your going to find yourself having to come here and ask… Only to recieve steps and work-arounds that are twice as much work as they should be.
Of course, someone can answer this for you. But chances are, after a year of working with WordPress… you’ll get a new idea. Chances are, you’ll have to come here to ask for help. Chances are… it can’t be done with WordPress anyways.
Even though they say you can make a fully functioning website with WordPress, you can’t. Even though it looks like you can, sounds like you can… you can’t.
Sorry to burst your bubble. Your better off with Blogspot or nothing but a mass email hitlist.
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Passion never hurt a soul. A lost a year of my time and money….. To warn people that will probably happen to them too, is my devine right.
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I beg to differ….
I am not a computer-savvy person at all, did a lot of reading before deciding to go with WordPress, and one of the things that sold me on picking it was the positive feedback from their support forum
Whenever I had a problem (and I’ve had many, for the most part for my own inexperience) I got help here in less than 10 minutes, early in the morning, late at night, it seems there is always someone ready to help.
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Until years later you get a new idea that can’t be done with WordPress. I’v had awesome help from the Forums too. Im not against any individuals here. Just WordPress – the corporation.
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Particularly as staff don’t read the forums. As you’d know, if you’d look around the forums.
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October wrap-up: 2,509,895 active wp.com blogs. Apparently adamhphoto knows better than all those fools.
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Adamhphoto,
I think I am starting to get problems too… Silly problems for my own blog, or interference, ie.
Technical wise, I have not encountered much since I am no technical guy and hence I don’t wiggle big times, just blog, delete and blog.
But I don’t recommend Blogspot. Is there a way that WordPress can migrate our contents out to another host if we need to just jump boat? Adam, you got any idea?
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What’s not to like about blogger? They are very generous. Before you even post your first post, they give you a bonus and start you out with over 300 XHTML errors and 65 warnings. And all for free. Typepad isn’t that generous, nor is Live Journal, and WordPress, what do they give you? Zero (0) errors and Zero (0) warnings.
If you work at it really hard, you can get that up around 1000 errors and nearly 500 errors in no time. That will certainly keep your computer processors and browsers in shape since they will have to process each and every one of those errors and warnings and figure out what to do with them.
http://opposablethumbz.wordpress.com/2009/05/17/for-those-of-you-thinking-of-switching-to-blogger/
http://opposablethumbz.wordpress.com/2009/05/29/returning-to-the-blogger-errors-issue/
http://opposablethumbz.wordpress.com/2009/06/14/the-official-google-blog/ -
Sacred,
I suppose it’s not just the technical juice, Sacred. LOL~ It’s similar with my experience in WordPress where WordPress just label my site as Mature without even consulting with me, and I am obviously unhappy with such service quality since I am aware of ratings.
If I am not wrong, years back, certain things did happen, including unfriendly judgmental meddling with accounts or people’s blog operations. It usually happens in forums when a crooked moderators are in.
If WordPress is continuing to give me the creep this manner, blogging won’t be personal any more with WordPress. You just can’t have a few weirdoes deciding what’s mature and what to do with other people’s blogs and keep on saying this is right when who’s really to judge?
People come to get a host, not to let the host play God on their blogging. If it’s not illegal, it’s just privacy.
Now, I have to leave this http://scopettg.wordpress.com here in case folks want to interact at blogs privately.
There must be someone with some common sense and come out with something technically as good as WordPress who’d leave our blogging alone. They have no respect to old timers with them, in my view.
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you’ll get a new idea. Chances are, you’ll have to come here to ask for help. Chances are… it can’t be done with WordPress anyways.
with wordpress.com? true, you can’t do much. with wordpress.org? false… you could do basically anything. You’d just need to have knowledge of PHP to tweak the software however you want, and a hosting provider to host your blog.
For websites, though, if I didn’t know how to program, I would use Joomla. To me, WordPress is just for blogging.
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scopettg,
Have you considered self-hosting your blog? With a self-hosted blog you wouldn’t have those kind of issues.
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@@dhanvantariayurveda and adamhphoto and scopettg,
I have blogs on blogspot, tumblr and wordpress.com as well as a self hosted wordpress install on my domain.One obstacle to using blogspot is finding a template that actually validates (HTML and CSS), rather than having to recode the ones that are available. Right out of the box Blogger templates throw 300 or more validation errors at you before you have even created and published your first post.
Another obstacle to blogspot blogging is reputation management as so many no quality and low quality blogs and splogs with stolen and/or plagiarized content are hosted there.
For purposes of clarification here is a link to 2009 comparison chart of blogspot features versus wordpress.com features http://pulsed.blogspot.com/2007/07/blogger-wordpress-chart.html
If you have your own website with PHP/MySQL support, you can download free software and use with no restrictions from http://wordpress.ORG
The differences between wordpress.COM and wordpress.ORG are found here https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/please-read-me-first-before-posting?replies=1
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adamhphoto has been given all these answers. And if he wants, he can come to my talk this Saturday on the differences between WordPress.com and WordPress.org.
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