Hiding default page

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  goodhumor2 · Member · Aug 28, 2012 at 4:39 pm

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  I’ve read everything I could find on hiding the default page, putting those to use, an am not getting anywhere.
  Please help.
  Thnaks.
  Blog url: http://aseriouswordaboutlove.wordpress.com/

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  goodhumor2 · Member · Aug 28, 2012 at 4:40 pm

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  Hiding default page directions not working.
  Help.
  Thanks.

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  timethief · Member · Aug 28, 2012 at 4:46 pm

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  I don’t know what you are refering to when you state “default page”. There is only one dynamic page for posts that automatically updates in a blog and all posts will display on that page. There is no way to exclude posts from the main posts (blog) page. By default the front page of the blog will display your posts (not pages) in reverse chronological order, with the most recently published post on top. If you do not want all the posts to show on the front page, then you can create a static front page http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/front-page/

  We can create the appearance that we have posted to more than one page but creating a custom menu and including dynamic pages which are automatically created by the software when we publish a post. We organize posts by assigning Categories to them. You can create a custom menu and add the dynamic categories pages created by the software into the custom menu. Note that until there is one published post in any category there is nothing that can be displayed on the dynamic categories pages
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/categories/
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/#adding-category-pages-to-your-menu

  Post and Pages are different. http://en.support.wordpress.com/post-vs-page/
  We can only assign Categories to Posts, not to static Pages.
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/categories/
  It’s critical for you to understand that it’s not the static pages that we bloggers create that will update. http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/ Static pages cannot and will not automatically update. Delete the static pages you created. Then create a custom menu and add the dynamic (continuously updating) Categories pages to it. http://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/#adding-category-pages

  Here’s a link to a custom menu walkthrough > http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2011/08/11/wordpress-com-custom-menu-walk-through/

  There are many common errors, misunderstanding and misconceptions when creating custom menus and you can read about them here > http://wpbtips.wordpress.com/2011/12/19/custom-menus/