did i make a mistake upgrading to wordpress.COM?

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  rmlakin · Member · Feb 23, 2015 at 9:45 am

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  I’m becoming increasingly frustrated with my inability to change the design and add content to a static page. It seems that all of the support topics reference tools that are for wordpress.ORG. Since I’m trying to use this as a static/content site and not a blog/diary site, am I in the wrong place? thanks!

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  gracejiyoung · Member · Feb 23, 2015 at 7:21 pm

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  Hi there,

  Can you tell me what you mean by change the design and add content to a static page? You can do this by going to Pages > Add new in your Dashboard. Note that the static page are just blank so you can add content to your desire. If you can specify exactly the issue you are having with adding content I can take a further look.

  As for all WordPress.com support guides, take a look here:

  http://support.wordpress.com/

  Also, please note that the words site and blog are used interchangeably here on WordPress.com. There isn’t a separate sign up or theme for a site as opposed to a blog. They’d be exactly the same.

  I’m assuming the differences you want between a blog and site would be that you’d want a custom menu and static pages like a Home page, Contact Page, etc. And then you may want a separate page for all your posts (blog type posts).

  In order to do this you can create a Home Page by going to Pages > Add new in your Dashboard. This is a static page that would be the page your readers view the minute they visit your site. After you published that, create another page titled Blog, Posts or whatever you want if you want a separate page with all your posts. Leave this page empty, but publish it.

  Then go to Settings > Reading in your Dashboard. At the top where it says Front Page displays: select a static page and set the the Home page you just created as your Front Page, and the Blog or Posts page as your Posts page. If you don’t want a Posts page, you can leave that blank.

  Finally, if you want to create a Custom Menu you can by going to Appearance > Menus in your Dashboard. Please view the link for further instructions.