Editing the “About the Site” box
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I’m really new this, but how do I edit the “About the Site” box on my home page? I can’t find anything on my Dashboard to let me edit this and it’s driving me crazy.
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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In your dashboard, you’ll see “pages”. Click on that, then you’ll see the “about” link. Click on that to edit it.
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Oops, I take that back. I checked your blog to see what you were talking about, and it appears that you’ve chosen a theme that has some built-in widgets. Check out your widgets under “appearance”, and you’ll be able to override what you see on the right column on your page.
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Actually with that theme, the about widget cannot be edited as I remember. It simply copies and displays the blog tagline. It is one of the theme-generated sample widgets and it will go away once a widget is actually added to the sidebar by the blog owner. In fact all the sample widgets displayed will disappear once a widget is added to the sidebar. You then have to add in the widgets that you actually want at appearance > widgets.
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To create your own “about” widget, you can use a text widget:
http://support.wordpress.com/widgets/text-widget/
http://support.wordpress.com/links/text-widget-links/Or you can use the Gravatar widget:
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