Can I pay for someone to help me get back on my page or something?

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  marthainmaine · Member · Apr 23, 2013 at 12:59 pm

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  I had the beginnings of a site, but now all I get on my dashboard are broken link icons. I don’t want two sites(i.e. I don’t know how I signed myself up for a blog:). I can’t even find the photos and timeline that I’d posted and could see a few months ago. Someone tried to help me a few nights ago but I haven’t heard back. Is there a formal process I can follow to try to get back on my feet or should I just bail out?

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

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  auxclass · Member · Apr 23, 2013 at 1:09 pm

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  For starters DON’T DELETE ANYTHING deleting things is gone forever.

  You mention two sites. We need all the sites / blogs / URL’s etc beginning with http that you need help with to begin to help you

  What exactly do you remember doing? did you transfer anything? Buy anything?

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  marthainmaine · Member · Apr 23, 2013 at 1:32 pm

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  OK. Thank you.When I try to get back into my dashboard–it gives me a ferny picture and says I only have one page and am “marthainmaine”. The mainefairtradearchive that I was working on has 7 pages or something and all of my postings were on those pages-and when I am in the dashboard environment-the pull down menu on the upper right hand side of the page has each listed (marthainmaine looks as if it is a blog)
  and when I select the mainefairtradearchive it sort of looks right and all of the pages might be there but when I select them they appear and then disapper in seconds-replaced with a “broken link” graphic/icon.
  There is a timeline graphic on the bottom of my http://www.policyspacemaine.org site that I had transferred into the wordpress site but it was there from the beginning and I worked around it.(A visitor last month was here and showed me how to add a page to a page is the only other activity on the site recently. ) Nope haven’t purchased anything.

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  auxclass · Member · Apr 23, 2013 at 1:59 pm

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  Missing stuff is not my strong suite – but have you checked for browser issues?

  Solve common browser issues

  Maybe the below will help someone help you

  You have two blogs – this is empty

  http://marthainmaine.wordpress.com/
  https://marthainmaine.wordpress.com/wp-login.php log-in

  This has content:

  http://mainefairtradearchive.wordpress.com/
  https://mainefairtradearchive.wordpress.com/wp-login.php – log-in

  I don’t see any pictures in the above blog – sometimes people will have more than one account and will not be logged in as the correct user to get into a blog –

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  marthainmaine · Member · Apr 24, 2013 at 12:53 am

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  Thank you so much. The contented site is almost looking the way it used to. Whew! I’ve lost a “home” page–my menu item just pulls up the “about” page..I was going to just copy the “About” page and rewrite it–but can’t figure out where to go to re-link that new page to the menu item-can you help with that as well?
  One last item- your clarifying that I had two blogs-one being empty–can I delete the empty one in some way so as not to keep messing my brain?
  PS. Thank you lots

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  raincoaster · Member · Apr 24, 2013 at 1:20 am

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  Don’t delete it. Just go to Settings->Reading and set it as Private. It’s very useful to have a private blog for messing with themes and widgets.

  To create static Pages, you need to go to Dashboard->Pages->Create New. If you want the blog posts to show on the page when someone goes to the blog, go to Settings->General and select that the blog should open on the Posts page.

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  marthainmaine · Member · Apr 24, 2013 at 1:39 am

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  All right then. Will do.
  Will the “home” menu item automatically point to the “home” page that i create new?

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  raincoaster · Member · Apr 24, 2013 at 1:43 am

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  If you create a static home page and you used to have one, the url will have home-2 at the end of it, so you will need to edit the custom menu and put that in. Create the page first, then see how it works. It can be fiddly.

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  marthainmaine · Member · Apr 24, 2013 at 1:55 am

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  Hmm. Right now my menu item “home” directs to the “about” page . And the “about” menu item directs to the “about ” page –which it was meant to do.
  Would it be easier to keep the “home” menu as is(and re-edit the page it links to and retitle it) and then just create another “about” page for the second about. No that doesn’t help cuz I still don’t understand about linking the menu items to their individual page:) I just want to be able to go some place and change the html link and point it to the “home”!