Appears to be 2 home pages

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  joannedi · Member · Jul 19, 2014 at 5:16 pm

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  When looking at all pages I sometimes see there are two home pages. I want only one. The home page that is defaulting has no content and the featured image was removed. I want the home page with content and featured image to display as default.

  Secondly, I have a quarterly newsletter page within my menu. I have 3 posts that I want to display within the quarterly newsletter’s drop down. How do I do this?

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

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  raincoaster · Member · Jul 19, 2014 at 9:29 pm

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  Use a custom menu to hide the Home page you don’t want.

  Tag or categorize those articles Newsletter and make the newsletter page tab a category page in your custom menu.

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  joannedi · Member · Jul 20, 2014 at 2:04 pm

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  My default page says: “nothing found.” If I click a menu item the display header and content are correct. How do I get my Home page menu item to be my blog default?

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  keld2014 · Member · Jul 20, 2014 at 3:53 pm

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  Unfortunately, I can not help since I have exactly the same problem, so I’m eagerly awaiting input from experts

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  joannedi · Member · Jul 20, 2014 at 6:31 pm

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  I’m wondering if the “nothing found” message has anything to do with a hidden blog that’s empty? It has bodi23wordpress.com as it’s owner, too?

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  timethief · Member · Jul 20, 2014 at 7:02 pm

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  @joannedi
  re: front page error message

  Nothing Found
  Apologies, but no results were found for the requested archive. Perhaps searching will help find a related post.

  By default the front page of the blog is the only page that will display all published posts on it. As soon as you publish a post not a page the error message will be gone. http://en.support.wordpress.com/post-vs-page/

  For creating a post see here http://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/#publish-a-new-post
  For creating a page see here
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/#create-a-new-page

  For editing see:
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/edit-posts-screen/
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/edit-pages-screen/

  On the bottom of your Admin page you will find a link to the step by step Learn WordPress.com blogging Tutorial prepared by Staff. http://learn.wordpress.com/

  The support documentation is all found at the Support link http://en.support.wordpress.com which is also on the bottom of your Admin page.

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  timethief · Member · Jul 20, 2014 at 7:04 pm

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  re: two front pages
  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”.

  Set the Homepage

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  joannedi · Member · Jul 20, 2014 at 7:04 pm

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  Thank you ever so much.

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  timethief · Member · Jul 20, 2014 at 7:06 pm

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  You’re welcome and best wishes.