Front page displays
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I am trying to change the front page display on one of my blogs, but when I click on Go to Settings → Reading there is no option for “Front page displays”, but when I try it on other blogs there is. Why is this?
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By default the front page of your blog displays all published posts (not pages) in reverse chronological order, with the most recently published post on top. That is for the convenience of your returning visitors, who come to read your latest post, and who are not likely to be happy with being compelled to click through the same static page with the same blah, blah, blah on it every time they visit the blog looking for the latest post.
However, if you do not want all the posts to show on the front page, and know that static front pages are traffic killers, 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)
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I am trying to change the front page display on one of my blogs, but when I click on Go to Settings → Reading there is no option for “Front page displays”, but when I try it on other blogs there is. Why is this?
You must be logged in as Admin http://en.support.wordpress.com/user-roles/#administrator under the exact same username account that registered the blog to access the blog’s dashboard.
Clicking this link should display all your blogs registered under the same username, including the hidden ones: https://dashboard.wordpress.com/wp-admin/index.php?page=my-blogs&show=hidden
If you do not see the blog here http://en.support.wordpress.com/my-blogs/ then
follow this guide > http://en.support.wordpress.com/my-blogs/#my-blogs-dashboard-visibilityIf you have lost your log-in information you can visit https://en.wordpress.com/wp-login.php?action=lostpassword
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I tried that, making two different pages, and then followed the directions going into Settings > Reading but the “Front page displays” option is still not showing up.
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Exactly which blog are your referring to? What is the URL?
Exactly which username account registered that blog?
You must be logged in as Admin http://en.support.wordpress.com/user-roles/#administrator under the exact same username account that registered the blog to access the blog’s dashboard and set up a static front page at > Settings > Reading, after your create the two pages required to do that.
If you are not logged in as Admin you cannot do it. Is that clear?
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I am logged in as Admin and I saw the blog on the link, but it still isn’t showing up. Should I just delete this blog and try to start over?
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Recovering or registering any deleted blog URL is not possible. Deleted blog URLs are not recycled, regardless of who registered and deleted them and no exceptions are made. http://en.support.wordpress.com/recycling-blog-names/
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I don’t really have anything on it. I just created a new one, I have it set as private. But I did create the first two pages and set myself as Admin and followed all the little steps, but it just won’t display. But it will on my other blog that isn’t set as private.
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Please provide the URL starting with http:// for the exact blog in question.
Please do not delete or create any other blogs. Please just wait
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Currently the only page you have published are private. Because these pages are private, you can’t set them to be your front page. So you have no pages published that can be set as your front page, so we hide that setting.
If you publish a page that is not set to private, then you’ll be able to change that setting.
Let me know if you have more questions!
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