HELP

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    bretcop · Member ·

    I’ve had my blog for about years or so but never really used it much. I have just updated it to the Pro version and trying to set it up to actually use it. I have spent two weeks already trying to figure out how to configure everything. I have set up soho.com email account for use although now I can’t even find out where it was suggest I set up that email and I can’t figure out how to put the pages I want on my home page and/or to add some of the pages already present on particular pages.
    The home page has a “view my tweets” button, but it doesn’t seem to work [I did create the widget and paste in the code], and the other widgets I added to main page which I thought is/was the home page aren’t on that page but are on another page. So I m obviously at a loss to do that even. I am presently using the twenty-twelve theme but maybe it’s just too much for me.
    If someone could please give me a bit of help like step one-? I would be so appreciative. Or somewhere I can get it configured for less than five hundred dollars..
    I REALLY need to get this set up. Any and all suggestions would be helpful.
    My url is http;//t-rants.org FYI

    Thanking you in advance,
    Tony
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    raincoaster · Member ·

    Why don’t we take this one step at a time.

    http://learn.wordpress.com is where you start.

    For Twitter, just use the prefab Twitter widget. The code you get from Twitter doesn’t work here.

    Some of the widgets have Visibility options, and you have to set them to be visible on all pages if that’s what you want. Check each widget.

    Review the difference between Posts and Pages http://en.support.wordpress.com/post-vs-page/

    Here’s how to create category page links in your header http://wpbtips.wordpress.com/2010/06/30/posts-on-pages/

    Here is how to set up your custom email. http://en.support.wordpress.com/domains/add-email/add-email-through-zoho-mail/ note that in computers spelling counts for everything, and this is ZOHO mail, not SOHO mail.

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    bretcop · Member ·

    Thank you very much Raincoaster. I viewed all of the links you gave me especially gave time to the one concerning post-vs-page. I still can’t move any posts I have or add to the category I want them. For ex. I have one that is a legal disclaimer that I want to put under that category I put in my menu. It’s not there and can’t seem to figure out how to move it. Like having the “About” page with my personal info intro having that information in that category.
    Should I just start over with the menu? Still not sure I can create the menu getting the info under the correct categories. I seem to just have the categorical hierarchy and I know this sounds really stupid [which is how I am feeling], sort the ‘posts’/info randomly. Since upgrading to Pro and having my new name of t-rants.org primary instead of bretcop.wordpress.com, I have had nothing but one headache after another. I am still hosted by WordPress, right? I must be because I am not paying another host site and my bretcop still shows up in the site name, at least I think that is where it is, somewhere on my settings page in either case.
    I thought when you had wordpress.com that ‘they’ helped you set up your theme. I want to buy one of the Premium themes but don’t dare do anything until I can figure this out. Currently I am using Twenty Twelve, and I thought you couldn’t download a theme if on wordpress.com?
    Am I confused? Yuppers, I would say so. Good think I am a better physician than computer geek [no offense intended to anyone].

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