Home Page disappears from Pages Dashboard
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Don’t ask me how it happened, but even though the Home Page is still viewable on the site, it has disappeared from the Pages on the Dashboard. The site had 4 pages and now it only lists 3. I can’t see any way to get the Home Page to display on the Dashboard again. As the Admin, I can edit the posts I put there, but I am unable to edit the Page since it is not listed.
How do I get it back on the Dashboard?
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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By default, the latest posts are displayed on the home page. You can edit them from the Posts section in your blog admin pages.
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The “Home” tab in the horizontal menu is not a page and it cannot be edited. This is the front page of your blog http://miltonhillsowners.wordpress.com/
On that page you have two sticky posts – not good! A sticky post ie. 1 (one) is what is recommended and not multiple sticky posts.
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I don’t get it. For two days the “Home” page which had the title of the first sticky post “Hello Neighbors” was visible in the Dashboard as a separate page, giving me a total of 4 pages. Somehow it disappeared and I don’t know why. While I can edit the posts that appear on this page, this means I cannot edit the Attributes of the page. Technically the site has 4 pages and it is disconcerting to see only 3 listed in the Dashboard.
Timethief can you explain why only 1 sticky post is recommended? What happens when there is more than one? I guess I will consolidate the posts into one sticky.
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I’m back to the “Home” tab. It’s just a tab. There is not page and as such it cannot be edited. Several themes have a special header tab, usually “Home”, occasionally “Homepage” [*] or “Front Page” [**] or “Blog” [***] or an image [****]: that’s not a page such as those you create but a link back to the blog front (the main blog URL, which can be your latest posts or a static page). That tab is hard-coded into the theme: you cannot edit or remove it (except in Bueno, Motion, and Titan).
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Also I sense that you may not be clear on the differences between static Pages (tabs on the horizontal menu) which are for content that rarely if ever changes and Posts, which are all displayed on a single running page for posts in reverse chronological order with the most recent at the top.
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The main page of the blogs, the “home” page is created on the fly by the underlying wordpress and theme PHP script files. I’ve never seen a “home” page in the pages section of the dashboard unless it was a static page that the blogger had created on their own, and in that case, it would not contain any posts. It would only include whatever static content that the blogger put in when they created the page.
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More than one sticky posts can become an editing problem. Blogs are designed to have fresh content that changes frequently on the front page of the blog.
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Hi Timethief. Yes I am aware of the static vs posting page differences and have read all documentation fairly thoroughly. I have adjusted 2 pages of the site to be static as opposed to posts. But I am confounded by the fact that my first page where I created posts actually existed for two days. It had the title of the first posting “Hello Neighbors”. I clicked on it via the Page Dashboard many times in order to edit it. I also did this to the posts on that page. Both ways. I had a total of 4 pages listed in the Pages Dashboard. Now I have 3. I guess the Sherlock Holmes in me wants to know why it disappeared!
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Yay! I’m so happy you comprehend the diiffernces between the two. Legions don’t an some days I feel like a broken record trying to explain them. :)
You can look in Draft Posts and Draft Pages. If it’s not there you can look in Trash.
P.S. I’m also the Sherlock Holmes type.
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The real question is why it was there to begin with, as the main blog page – whatever it is called on the theme – would be listed there since it is NOT a page that actually exists until there is a request from a browser for that page to be served up.
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There’s an autosave happening every 2 minutes that produces Posts revisions and Page revisions.
http://en.support.wordpress.com/autosave/
http://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/post-revisions/ -
Using the Twenty Ten theme, it was the main, first page called “Home” in the theme, and under the Pages Dashboard given the Title “Hello Neighbors” which was the title of the first post on the page. I am intrigued by this cyber sleight of hand!
Thesacredpath I don’t understand your comment. All pages should be listed in the Pages Dashboard as long as they have a title. For example let’s say I wanted to change it from a post page to a static page. I cannot even select it as a Page in the Dashboard to do this. It isn’t in the Trash and I can’t find where Draft Posts and Draft Pages is located to check there. Since it was published I wouldn’t think it would wind up in Drafts, but you never know.
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The home page is NOT a page. It doesn’t exist as a “page.” It is created on the fly when a browser requests the main page of the blog. The content for that page is pulled from the MySQL database and then the PHP script files create the markup (HTML) and serve it up to the browser.
“Hello Neighbors” is a post that is placed on the main page (as all new subsequent posts will be) by the PHP script files.
I have never, in over 3 years here, seen the main page of the blog (home, front page, blog or whatever) listed at pages > edit in the dashboard.
I’m not saying you did not see it, but what I am saying is it was not supposed to be there. THAT would be the question.
The main blog page, which is created on the fly, cannot be edited because it doesn’t exist as a page in the same sense as the about page, or the contacts page, or any other page you create.
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Well said TSP.
@milltonhillsowners
For example let’s say I wanted to change it from a post page to a static page.
There is no automatic way to change a static page to become a post or visa versa. If you are looking for that forget it. On this software we must choose in advance to create either a static page or post. If we create the opposite one in error there is no method of automatic content transfer. We must copy and paste.
Pages
http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/page-screen/
http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/edit-pages-screen/Note: All … Published … Draft
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Posts
http://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/
http://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/edit-posts-screen/Note: All … Published … Draft … Trash
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Ah, yes, I understand. What I did was uncheck comments and allow trackbacks, which in my mind made it “static” in that only content I put there would be visible. TSP’s explanation is sound, I wish I could remember what I was doing when it disappeared. That might lend a clue, but I guess it will remain a mystery. It WAS there, titled and everything. Oh well. Thanks for all the links timethief, I will review them all!
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My posts like yours are aimed solely at helping wordpress.com bloggers. I gut my own posts and copy paste the contents here all the time and have been doing so for years before you arrived. With regard to Home page and Blog tabs my intention was to inform the blogger above and not to offend you. I apologize for using an excerpt and will never do so again.
I’m back to the “Home” tab. It’s just a tab. There is not page and as such it cannot be edited. Several themes have a special header tab, usually “Home”, occasionally “Homepage” [*] or “Front Page” [**] or “Blog” [***] or an image [****]: that’s not a page such as those you create but a link back to the blog front (the main blog URL, which can be your latest posts or a static page). That tab is hard-coded into the theme: you cannot edit or remove it (except in Bueno, Motion, and Titan). http://wpbtips.wordpress.com/category/homefrontblog-tab/
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