Deleting Home Page

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  tarmanmf · Member · Jul 15, 2011 at 12:27 pm

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  Not sure how, but two “home pages” showed up on my menu. Tried to delete one and both. Have set up a custom menu without a home page but it remains. Whenever you go to my blog, it shows a home page that reads “Sorry, but you are looking for something that isn’t here.”

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

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  wpgaurav · Member · Jul 15, 2011 at 1:30 pm

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  Here’s how you can set a page as your homepage: http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/front-page/
  And here is the solution for your problem: (HIDE PAGES) http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/hide-pages/

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  tarmanmf · Member · Jul 15, 2011 at 3:11 pm

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  Thanks for your suggestion. I set a new homepage and I followed the procedures for hiding a page. My blog opens to the new “Home” page but my top navigation area still shows two home pages. (Clicking on either takes you to the same page.) Any other suggestions?

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  timethief · Member · Jul 15, 2011 at 4:03 pm

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  Yes. The “Home” supplied by the theme is a link your users can use from any page in the blog to return to the front page of your blog. That tab is coded into the theme template and you cannot edit or remove it (except in the few cases noted). http://wpbtips.wordpress.com/2009/05/06/the-home-tab/

  If you have created a second Home page with text on it then you can choose to display it instead. Create a custom menu and include only the pages you want in it. Staff have provided help for those who want to structure their blog like a website. > http://en.support.wordpress.com/using-wordpress-to-create-a-website/

  Also note that the 404 page not found message on the front page of your blog which is a result of deleting the placehholder “Hello World” post will disappear as soon as you publish a post.

  As you are new I can recommend a comprehensive tutorial. The Learn WordPress.com tutorial is divided into progressive levels and presented as a series: http://learn.wordpress.com/

  What’s critical is:
  (1) a clear comprehension of the differences between pages and posts > http://en.support.wordpress.com/post-vs-page/
  (2) a clear comprehension of the fact that here is only one dynamic page in a blog for posts and we cannot post to more than that one page. But we can create the appearance that we have posted to more than one page.
  These are the how-to instructions:
  How to create Pages > http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/
  How to create a custom menu. http://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/

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  wpgaurav · Member · Jul 15, 2011 at 4:06 pm

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  Can you please give us the url of your site, you are talking about? I think it is not http://hiking4warriors.wordpress.com/ which is linked with you, because I didn’t get any problem related to this topic on this site.

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  wpgaurav · Member · Jul 15, 2011 at 4:08 pm

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  @timethief You solved it by an amazing way. :) great

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  tarmanmf · Member · Jul 15, 2011 at 6:23 pm

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  the site url is hiking-the-pct.com

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  timethief · Member · Jul 15, 2011 at 6:26 pm

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  @tarmanmf
  http://hiking-the-pct.com/ is looking great now. I’m so happy to hear this issue has been resolved. Have a wonderful time with your blog. :)