Duplicate front pages
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The blog I need help with is midsummersdaymusic.net. I want visitors to see a static home page instead of the blog posts, so I followed the instructions for doing this (https://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/front-page/) and the posts are now appearing in the side bar, which is good (under the ‘recent posts’ heading – only one post so far as this is a new blog).
However, I now have two static pages, ‘about’ and ‘blog’. Both contain the same text, and both seem to be active at the same time, as the tab label is in white text on black background (before, the tab labels of inactive pages would be black text on white background).
When I go to the ‘pages’ section of the site admin, I can see the ‘about’ page is there, plus the dummy ‘posts’ page I created when moving the posts into the sidebar, but no ‘blog’ page.
How do I delete the ‘blog’ page? At this stage all I want is the ‘about’ page and the posts in the sidebar. I will create more pages as the site expands.
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I’m not certain, but it looks like you did the following:
1. created a custom menu, because without a custom menu you’d have the default “home” tab in the navigation bar.
2. renamed your posts page, which is http://midsummersdaymusic.net/posts/, “blog,” in the custom menu.
3. Did not assign your page titled “posts” as your posts page at Settings > Reader.plus the dummy ‘posts’ page I created when moving the posts into the sidebar
It’s not a dummy page. This is your posts page, though as soon as you assign it as your posts page at Reading Settings, the “/posts” extension will disappear from the URL when you visit it.
4. assigned your About page as post the static front page and the posts page at Reading Settings. -
Correction:
This is your posts page, though as soon as you assign it as your posts page at Reading Settings, the “/posts” extension will disappear from the URL when you visit it.
Sheesh. That’s wrong. Forget I said that please.
Sorry, I got a bit confused there. I should think these things through more carefully before posting.
Your about page is assigned as your static homepage. Good.
http://midsummersdaymusic.net/posts/ is assigned as your posts page, so that is well.
The only problem is that you seem to have created a custom menu item with the navigation label “blog” which links to your homepage. If you want to retain that label then just edit the URL in the menu item (custom menu).
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If you created that menu item from the pages module rather than the links module at the Menus page, and you don’t have access to the URL, then delete it and create a new link to your posts page, naming it whatever you want: “posts,” “blog,” “Albuquerque.”
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