Help! On-line portfolio shortly due

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  woodrackets · Member · Oct 18, 2008 at 7:48 am

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  I’m supposed to submit a portfolio in the form of a blog as the final project for a masters-level class. Tho I’ve built 2 WYSIWYG websites, doing this blog thing is confusing.I’ve got questions; can someone help?

  Here’s my blog: http://stepanczuk.wordpress.com

  • I want to get all of the pages to show up under the Categories in the left hand column. As you can see there’s only one. What can I do?

  • I want Home page to *be* the Introduction page. How do I do that?

  • Look at the Resources page. You see:

  Archives by Month:

  August 2008

  Archives by Category:

  Home
  Introduction

  but the Lesson page there is no Archive info. I want all my pages to be like the Lesson Plan page; with no archive headers. How do I do that?

  These 3 Qs are good for starters.

  Thanx in advance,

  woodrackets

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  justjennifer · Member · Oct 18, 2008 at 8:06 am

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  FAQ

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  panaghiotisadam · Member · Oct 18, 2008 at 9:47 am

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  Q1
  http://faq.wordpress.com/2006/11/11/a-post-and-a-page/

  (And there’s no point in having a “Home” page AND a post category named “Home”.)

  Q2
  http://faq.wordpress.com/2007/02/20/having-a-static-page-at-the-front-of-the-blog/

  Q3
  Archives etc. are not part of a particular page: they are in your SIDEBAR, which appears with all pages and posts. To modify its contents, you go to Design>Widgets and add or remove widgets.

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  woodrackets · Member · Oct 18, 2008 at 1:31 pm

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  Jenny & Pana,
  Thanx. I think I got it mostly figured out.

  Now I’ve got a Home link and a mystery link between Home and Introduction. Now what?

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  themountainsage · Member · Oct 18, 2008 at 2:21 pm

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  Do you have an untitled page….that might cause the mystery link.

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  woodrackets · Member · Oct 18, 2008 at 2:55 pm

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  themountainsage,
  Thanx, but if I get rid of that, nothing shows up on the Home page. How do I access the Home page? For the life of me, I cannot find it.

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  raincoaster · Member · Oct 18, 2008 at 3:00 pm

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  You just click on the blog name.

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  vivianpaige · Member · Oct 18, 2008 at 3:21 pm

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  I could have sworn that theme came with a home page link already. When I look at my test blog, it shows up. http://vjptestblog2.wordpress.com/ IIRC, there is a problem with that theme when you use the page trick to put the home link in the tabs, the result being that ghost page.

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  woodrackets · Member · Oct 19, 2008 at 3:56 am

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  You just click on the blog name.

  Rain,
  Tried that. No dice.

  there is a problem with that theme when you use the page trick to put the home link in the tabs, the result being that ghost page.

  Viv,
  Thanx, girl. I guess I jusy gotta deal with it. At least I can get to the content by clicking on either the Home link or the ghost link. Weird, but it works.

  wood

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  vivianpaige · Member · Oct 19, 2008 at 4:04 am

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  Hey wood – clicking on the blog name in the header DOES take you home. Not sure why it’s not working for you because I just tried it and it works.

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  woodrackets · Member · Oct 19, 2008 at 11:37 am

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  clicking on the blog name in the header DOES take you home.

  Viv,
  You mean the *editable* Home page? That’s what I want. I wanna pimp that.

  wood

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  vivianpaige · Member · Oct 19, 2008 at 4:17 pm

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  I think you need to read this – http://faq.wordpress.com/2007/08/16/im-new-to-blogging-where-do-i-start/ You seem to not understand the very basic parts of blogging.