Deleted Home Page – How to Restore?

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  nimaher · Member · Mar 31, 2013 at 10:54 pm

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  Hi. Just trying WordPress out for the first time and have deleted the Home page. Whenever I try to navigate back to the home page it creates an 404 error. Does anyone know how I can restore the home page or do I need to delete the entire content and start again (there’s very little on there)

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  raincoaster · Member · Mar 31, 2013 at 10:56 pm

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  You need to create a blog Post rather than a static Page and it will show up there. All your Posts will go there sequentially.

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  nimaher · Member · Apr 1, 2013 at 1:18 am

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  Thanks Raincoaster. How do I go about removing the static page status to a blog post? I recall that I made it a static page in the “Customise Theme” tool. However, when I try to use this option, it freezes with “loading design tools” on the right hand side of the page – I assume this is because I’ ve deleted the homepage?

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  justpi · Member · Apr 1, 2013 at 1:56 am

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  You haven’t deleted the homepage. The homepage is just the blog front: you can’t delete that!
  If you want your latest posts on the homepage, you go to Settings > Reading and set your front to display the latest posts. In that case you’ll get a 404 till you publish a post.
  If you want a static page as your front, you create that page in Pages > Add New, then you go to Settings > Reading and set your front to disply that page.

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  nimaher · Member · Apr 1, 2013 at 8:47 pm

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  Sorted!

  Many thanks Justpi and Raincoaster.