Editing homepage that isn't a static page
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When I opened my wordpress acount I wanted a static homepage but didn’t know how to do it so I enlisted the help of a graduate student at my University to help me set this up. He did so and now I want to edit my homepage but I don’t know how and the grad student who helped me has left school. I have looked through everything I can think of and I cannot find the text that is on my homepage. The text displayed on my homepage is not a page and it is not a post and when I go to my settings, my front page is set to latest posts not static page. I don’t know what the grad student did but I cannot figure out how to access the text on my homepage to edit it. Any suggestions?
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You are confused because you do not know the differences between Posts and Pages. There is only one page in any blog that all published posts display on. By default it is the front page of the blog that displays all published Posts (not Pages) on it in reverse chronological order, with the most recently published post on top. You cannot “edit” the display on that page because it’s generated by the software every time you publish a Post, not a Page. As soon as you publish a post not a page the error message of the front page of your blog will be gone. http://en.support.wordpress.com/post-vs-page/
If you do not want all the posts to show on the front page because you want a “website-like” appearance then you can create a static front page called for example “Welcome” for your site and a “Blog” page for posts. To do that create two pages first http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/
After you do that you go to > Settings > Reading and make the designation change and click “save changes”.
http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/front-page/A static page (select below)
Front page: ___________
Posts page: ___________
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