Blog posts aren't showing up on the front page

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  creativecanuck · Member · Jul 29, 2013 at 6:56 pm

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  Since day one of starting my blog, I have had issues with my posts not showing up on the front page of my blog. Right now, if someone decides to view my blog, they come up to the “About Me” page/tab. In order to view the posts, someone has to click on the July 2013 Archives Tab to the Right of the screen or scroll down to the Recent Posts widget section.

  I am using the Splendio theme for my blog.
  http://colourfulchameleon.wordpress.com/

  Can someone please help me with this issue? I appreciate any advice or help.

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  raincoaster · Member · Jul 29, 2013 at 7:01 pm

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  That is happening because under Settings->General (or it might be Reading) you’ve set your blog to open on that page. Set it to open on the blog posts page instead.

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  barry001 · Member · Jul 29, 2013 at 7:32 pm

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  Creativecanuck maybe it that link can solve your problem http://codex.wordpress.org/Settings_Reading_Screen

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  timethief · Member · Jul 29, 2013 at 7:55 pm

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  @barry001
  Stop posting links to WordPress.ORG documentation entries they are not relevant to WordPress.COM bloggers.

  The only relevant support documentation for those with free hosted WordPress.COM blogs is found here http://support.wordpress.com/

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  creativecanuck · Member · Jul 29, 2013 at 7:56 pm

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  Thank you, I ended up fixing the problem. Now I have a new problem. The posts aren’t in chronological order of date posted. They are all disorganized.

  Any more advice on this matter?

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  timethief · Member · Jul 29, 2013 at 7:59 pm

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  @creativecanuck
  By default the front page of your blog displays all posts (not pages) in reverse chronological order, with the most recently published post on top.

  You changed that by making About Me a static front page and that’s the cause of your issue. Now you need to go here > Settings > Reading > Reading Settings and undo what you did by selecting
  Front page displays
  __ Your latest posts

  Reference link http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/front-page/

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  timethief · Member · Jul 29, 2013 at 8:00 pm

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  Blogs are essentially a reverse chronological order publishing tool wherein the most recent post is display on top.

  You can reset your date and timezone on your blog to reflect the timezone you actually live in. The default timezone is UTC time. You can reset your timezone here > Settings > General
  Select the closest city to you in the same timezone you live in in the drop-down menu you see there and then click “save changes”.

  If that does not rectify the post order then how many sticky posts have you created? http://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/post-visibility/#sticky-posts

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  creativecanuck · Member · Jul 29, 2013 at 8:09 pm

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  Thank you for your help. :)

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  timethief · Member · Jul 29, 2013 at 8:10 pm

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  You’re welcome. :) I think you may benefit from using the step by step learn WordPress.com blogging that Staff have linked to the bottom of your Admin page at http://learn.wordpress.com