Dara Theme Menu & static front page

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    pastymuncher666 · Member ·

    I have published three pages with titles that are easy to remember, Home, Blog and contact.

    Then I tried to make the home page static
    My Site → Pages → Add Page.
    Go to Customize → Static Front Page.
    static Select “A page” and choose the two pages you published in Step #1 as your Front page (home) and Posts page(blog).

    I have published it but when I tested the menu I could not get back to my home, a message has come opps cannot be found.

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

  • staff-loquaciousloon · Staff ·

    Hi @pastymuncher666!

    It looks like your Home link is working (it takes you to whatever page you have set as your front page.

    Can you tell me what you want to have on the front page of your site? Blog posts, or a different page?

    If you want blog posts on your front page, visit My Site > Customize > Static Front Page and choose Your latest posts.

    If you want a different page on the front of your site, you can publish one page for the front of your site, and an empty page to put your posts on. Then use My Site > Customize > Static Front Page to set the front page, and a separate Posts Page for your blog posts.
    https://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/front-page/

    If you find your menu links are taking you to the wrong page, you can update the menu form My Site > Menus
    https://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/

    Once this is done, you can write a new blog post whenever you want, and it will be added to the posts page automatically – you don’t need to edit or add to the same post and page each time :)

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    pastymuncher666 · Member ·

    Hi Chad 1008
    Thanks for your reply.
    On the home button I want The biography material
    On the blog page button I want the blog material
    on the contact button I want the contact information,

    One the menu all the buttons link to the contact page. Under pages all the original material is the I guess i need to sort out the menu

  • staff-loquaciousloon · Staff ·

    Thanks for mapping all of that out. Here are the steps I would recommend:

    First, your Biography material appears to be published as a post (two very similar posts, actually).

    Look under My Site > Blog posts. Decide which of those is the version you like. Copy and paste the contents of that blog post into a brand new Page. Give that page the title “Home”

    At the moment, your title for the posts is a note about the site: This is an ongoing blog about what is going on with my life at the moment…

    I would copy and paste that into the contents of your new page, instead of using it as a title. You can make it bold if you’d like it to stand out more.

    Next – open My Site > Customize > Static Front Page.

    Choose “Home” as your front page (this is the page you just put the biography info on)
    Choose “Blog” as your Posts Page (all of your blog posts will appear there automatically)

    Save & Publish.

    Next – we have the pages in the right places, so we can now address the menu. Open My Site > Menus.

    We’re going to rework the menu entirely. It should start with Blog at the moment. Click on the pencil to the right of the first menu item and choose Page, then choose Home (site).

    If it still says Blog on this item, type the word Home instead and click OK.

    Now the first menu link will sayHome, and it will take you to the front of your site.

    Now click the pencil next to the second menu item, which should be Happy New Year?.

    Click on Page and then choose Blog. Make sure the label Happy New Year? gets replaced with what you want this link to say: Blog.

    Repeat these steps on the third menu item – choose Page, and then Contact and make sure to label it accordingly.

    For the last item, replace it with something you need, or if you don’t need a fourth, click the pencil ,then the trash can to remove that menu item. Don’t use the trash can at the top, that deletes the whole menu. Use the one inside the individual menu item.

    When all of that is done, save your menu :)

    The last bit:

    Right now, you have a page named Blog On that page you have entered content with dates – kind of like a journal. It looks like you were manually creating a blog on this page.

    Now that you have set this as your Posts Page, that content will not be displayed. Instead it will pull in your actual Blog Posts (which are the two similar entries I mentioned earlier, containing your biography info).

    Now that you’ve moved your bio to an actual page, you can trash those two blog posts under My Site > Blog Posts.

    Now you can start writing new blog posts, and they will automatically be displayed on your blog page :)

    If you’d like, you can also edit your Posts Page, copy and paste the content into individual blog posts (give each entry it’s own post).

    Once that is all done, you’ll have a front page with your biography, a posts page with an ongoing series of individual blog posts, and a contact page – all accessible from your menu :)

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