Blog page troubles
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The blog page on my site shows up in the browser, however there is a message that says “Oh no! You’re looking for something which just isn’t here! Fear not however, errors are to be expected, and luckily there are tools on the sidebar for you to use in your search for what you need.”
When I click through my dashboard, the blog page isn’t registered as a page at all. I can’t figure out how to remove it completely, or somehow get it to register within my dashboard so I can alter it.
Any help is greatly appreciated.
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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I deleted the test page. I couldn’t create a blog post because the Blog page doesn’t show in my dashboard. The only pages I have registered are Portfolio, About me, and Contact.
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I made the Portfolio page appear first. Now the blog page is still on the site, but I can’t get to it.
Its strange. A ghost page that I can’t alter or delete.
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Well I am out of ideas.
Hopefully support can help you. http://en.support.wordpress.com/contact/
Best of luck.
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@superfluke
When you activated the K2 Lite theme how many pages did it display? Did it have one titled called “Blog” that you cannot delete and and one called “About” which you did delete? Also what do you want to achieve please? -
Many themes are hard coded to display a “Home” or “Blog” link even when no other pages exist. Technically you can assign any page you create to become your “static” front page but the K2 Lite theme is hardcoded to have “Blog” as a front or “home” page. And in a blog only one page in a blog will automatically update with each new post you make.
If you wish to have a static front page and hide the Blog page http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/front-page/ http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/hide-pages/
Although it’s “trendy” right now to have a static front page that some people are calling a “landing page” doing this has a downside.
(1) Your readers come to read your blog posts and repeat readers do not appreciate clicking through an introduction or a biography over and over again and again.
(2) Serious bloggers who have high page rankings do not have “static” front pages. They choose to have the blog posts that people want to read right up front when readers click into their site, and ensure their navigation is set up so it’s reader friendly. They are serious about their stats so everything that counts towards PageRank is found on their front page.
(3) Your page rank assigned by Google is primarily calculated by what’s on your front page. If you have zero posts, zero comments and zero links on your front page then there’s nothing there that adds up to a PageRank.
The 3 points above do not matter if you do not intend to use your blog in the conventional manner.
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I chose the K2 Lite theme when it was still free. Since that time, I have done little with my site. I do, however, remember trying to delete the page in the very beginning, when I didn’t think I would need a blog page.
I believe you are right about the hard-coded blog page for K2 Lite. It makes a lot of sense that it is still there without anything showing up in my dashboard.
I tried the suggestion you made about hiding the blog page, however, the blog page isn’t an option on my list of pages. It says I only have three.
Because I have done so little with the site up until now, what I want is to just over with a fresh K2 Lite site. Is there a way to revert back to when I first set my theme to K2 Lite?
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Answer this please. Is this the blog at this specific URL the blog in question or not -> http://superfluke.wordpress.com/
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I chose the K2 Lite theme when it was still free.
All themes at wordpress.com are free as is the web hosting.
I tried the suggestion you made about hiding the blog page, however, the blog page isn’t an option on my list of pages. It says I only have three.
You can create as many static pages as you choose to. Here is the link to the illustrated instructions http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/ and at the end of the entry you will find a link to a brief step by step video tutorial.
what I want is to just over with a fresh K2 Lite site. Is there a way to revert back to when I first set my theme to K2 Lite
Yes and no. What you have done can be undone and that will put you back where you began.
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Yes, that is the same blog in question http://superfluke.wordpress.com/
All wordpress themes are indeed free. I simply meant that K2 Lite was not available on wordpress any longer. i would have hoped it would be as deleting what I have now and replacing it with the same theme.
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It’s still available. When you choose it as you have done and activate it then the theme can no longer be found here > Appearance > Themes because your blog is “wearing” it.
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This is a cyclic communication — let’s try and make a breakthrough.
No matter how many time you activate and deactivate the K2 Lite theme the fact remains that the “Blog” page on the K2 Lite theme cannot be removed or renamed. It is defined in the underlying theme template files and we cannot access and edit those files.
If you were experienced with CSS, and had paid upgrade, you could remove the entire top navigation if you wished, but not just the one “Blog” tab.
From your point of view, what is the optimum outcome?
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“It’s still available. When you choose it as you have done and activate it then the theme can no longer be found here > Appearance > Themes because your blog is “wearing” it.”
–Thanks. I didn’t know your theme doesn’t show on the list if you are currently wearing it.“No matter how many time you activate and deactivate the K2 Lite theme the fact remains that the “Blog” page on the K2 Lite theme cannot be removed or renamed. It is defined in the underlying theme template files and we cannot access and edit those files.”
–I chose a different theme, saved it, then rechose K2 Lite and saved that. The issue still remained, so whatever I did to the CSS early on is harder to alleviate than I can handle.“From your point of view, what is the optimum outcome?”
–I want the blog tab back in my dashboard. I do not want a static front page.
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