Changing to a static home page

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    bahardie · Member ·

    I was very clueless when I started. Now I get the difference between a static home page and a home page that shows the latest post.

    The problem is that I when I try to create a new static home page, I end up with 2 home pages in navigation.

    When I go to manage pages, I can only select and delete the new static home page. There doesn’t seem to be a way to delete the original or have wordpress recognize the new one.

    There must be a way. Forgive a noob and TIA for the solution, which I’m sure is super simple!

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

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    timethief · Member ·

    You have two choices.
    (1) All posts on the front page.
    (2) A static front page and posts on a different page.

    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.

    However, if you do not want all the posts to show on the front page, 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”.
    http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/front-page/

    A static page (select below)
    Front page:
    Posts page:

    The problem is that I when I try to create a new static home page, I end up with 2 home pages in navigation.

    Create a custom menu include only the relevant Home page in it.
    http://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/

    Menus

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    bahardie · Member ·

    Thanks! The thing I didn’t notice the first five times I tried was that I had to set the page to private so I could then change it.

    Cheers!

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    timethief · Member ·

    Cheers and best wishes with your blog.

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    musicdoc1 · Member ·

    @ bahardie,
    It should not be necessary to set a page, or anything, to private to change your front page setting from latest posts to a static page, or vice versa.

    When I go to manage pages, I can only select and delete the new static home page. There doesn’t seem to be a way to delete the original or have wordpress recognize the new one.

    By “the original” I presume you mean the posts page. The reason you can’t delete that is that by default the posts page has no static page associated with it. You only create a static page on which to display posts if you intend to use a different static page as the front page.

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