HELP WITH CUSTOMIZING APPEARANCE

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    stephaniebarthorvath · Member ·

    I have just wasted an entire day trying to control the appearance of my blog. I wanted to have a fixed page as an opener followed by flowing blog pages, with the oldest entry first.

    I have been unable to name the first page without the name appearing twice, once where the title would be and the second time where the slugs or tabs should be. I want the name of the slug to be “home” and the name of the title to be something different. I would also like to be able to place additional tabs at the top at the top: home • posts • about • contact. I can’t seem to make that happen either.

    The theme I have chosen is Nishita. In the sample, you can clearly see the tabs at the top and you can see that the title above her image is not the same as one of the tabs.

    I have tried the wordpress suggestion of creating the first page, then creating a second page, which would essentially be blank, but that does not help. Additionally, I do not see how adding a second *page* will allow me to have blog posts follow or link to my home page.

    Thanks in advance for any help I can get!

    Stephanie BH

    The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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    timethief · Member ·

    I wanted to have a fixed page as an opener followed by flowing blog pages, with the oldest entry first. …

    A blog is essentially a reverse chronological order publishing tool. The other structural choice you can make is this write a book.

    Creating page is the same in any WordPress.com blog no matter what the theme is. Pages are static, they sit outside of the blog structure and you cannot post to multiple pages in any blog. http://en.support.wordpress.com/post-vs-page/

    There is only one main page for posts in a blog and all posts will show on the main blog page. There is no way to exclude posts from the main posts (blog) page. By default the main posts (blog) page is the front page of the blog.

    If you do not want all the posts to show on the main page then you can create a static front page for your site.
    Choice 1 static front page.
    Choice 2 running page for all posts on front page.

    Which do you choose? It’s one or the other. If you choose Choice 1 static front page then you have to create two pages. One for the static front page which you can call anything you choose example “Welcome”, and one for the blog posts to appear on which you can call anything you choose example “Blog”. After your do that you go here . Settings > Reading and make the designation change and click “save changes”. http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/front-page/

    Though there is only one dynamic page in a blog for posts and we cannot post to more than that one page. But we can create the appearance that we have posted to more than one page. We organize posts by assigning categories to them. You can either put the categories widget into the sidebar, or you can create a custom menu and add the categories into the custom menu.
    http://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/categories/
    http://en.support.wordpress.com/widgets/categories-widget/
    http://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/
    http://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/#adding-category-pages-to-your-menu
    There are many common mistakes and misconceptions when it comes to creating custom menus and this article clears them all up http://wpbtips.wordpress.com/2011/12/19/custom-menus/

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    justpi · Member ·

    The homepage in almost all themes including Nishita can display either a static front page or your latest posts, not both. Decide which one of the two you prefer and then we can tackle the rest.

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    timethief · Member ·

    ~~justpi
    G-day to you. Indeed I’m waiting for his reply. :)

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