Help on home page

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    glennfeldman · Member ·

    Is there a way to create my own home page ? I would like to have a blank page option, so I can design my own home page with images and text where I want it to be rather being force to follow a template.

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    timethief · Member ·

    You cannot eliminate all themes and create your own. For that you need a wordpress.ORG installon paid hosting.

    Here at wordpress.COM you can create a Page https://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/#create-a-new-page and then designate it as a static front page.

    This is a one or the other situation. You have two choices on any blog
    (1) All posts on the front page.
    (2) Or a static front page http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/front-page/ and all posts on a different page.

    The front page of every site or Home by default is the URL of the site.

    Every theme has a detailed theme description page like this one is at https://wordpress.com/themes/harmonic/ That’s where set up instructions for it are found. The live demo link is there too.

    All support docs are at https://en.support.wordpress.com/

    This is a one or the other situation. You have two choices on any blog
    (1) All posts on the front page ie. the Home page. By default that is the URL of the site.

    (2) A static front page http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/front-page/ and all posts on a different page.

    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, then you can create a static front page called for example “Welcome” for your site and a “Blog” page for posts. Create your two pages first
    Front page:
    Posts page:
    http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/

    After you do that you go to > Dashboard > 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:

    Go to http://NAME_OF_BLOG.wordpress.com/wp-admin/options-reading.php and make the required change.

    *Replace NAME_OF_BLOG in the URL above with the actual name of your blog.

    Front page displays
    Save changes
    __ Your latest posts

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    timethief · Member ·

    being force to follow a template

    CSS editing to change appearance only if we have the required upgrade.
    WordPress.COM is a multi user blogging platform with off the shelf themes and it’s aimed for use by those who do not code. Each theme is uniquely designed.

    We wordpress.com bloggers do not have access to the template files underlying our themes and we cannot edit them, as our blogs share a common architecture, and as all blogs wearing the same theme use the same underlying template, found on the live demo site for each theme.

    The only themes we can use on WordPress.com hosted blogs are licensed and adapted to run on our multi user software the themes are found here http://wordpress.com/themes/ and in your dashboard at > Appearance > Themes

    We cannot:
    upload any third party themes,
    create child themes,
    create our own themes,
    edit templates,
    create own own layouts,
    or use stylesheets from other themes.

    P.S. Also be keenly aware that you cannot transfer any theme from https://wordpress.com/themes/ which is licensed and adapted to run on WordPress.COM software to a WordPress.ORG site, and visa versa. The two run on different software and have different versions of themes with the same names. Read the differences here http://en.support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/

    See Moving to Self-Hosted WordPress https://move.wordpress.com

    The wordpress.ORG support forum link is http://wordpress.org/support/ The wordpress.ORG login link is here https://login.wordpress.org/ If you do not have an account yet then click Create an account https://login.wordpress.org/register/ and if you have lost an account password click Lost password? https://login.wordpress.org/lostpassword/

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