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  crhspresentationzen · Member · Mar 7, 2014 at 7:39 pm

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  My HOME page is not available…there’s supposed to be one, but it won’t show up

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  timethief · Member · Mar 7, 2014 at 7:45 pm

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  You created a slough of Pages which are for static content that rarely changes but no Posts at all.

  By default the front page of the blog is the only page that will display all published posts on it. As soon as you publish a post not a page the error message will be gone. http://en.support.wordpress.com/post-vs-page/

  For creating a post see here http://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/#publish-a-new-post
  For creating a page see here
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/#create-a-new-page

  For editing see:
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/edit-posts-screen/
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/edit-pages-screen/

  On the bottom of your Admin page you will find a link to the Learn WordPress.com blogging Tutorial prepared by Staff. http://learn.wordpress.com/

  The support documentation is all found at the Support link http://en.support.wordpress.com which is also on the bottom of your Admin page.

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  timethief · Member · Mar 7, 2014 at 7:50 pm

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  Note All those static Pages you created will never automatically update. if you expect them to then you need to delete them and use posts with categories assigned to them instead. Then create a custom menu and include the dynamic (automatically updating) categories pages in it.

  (1) There is only one page we can post to in any blog.
  (2) The static pages http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/ we bloggers create do not automatically update.

  Only the dynamic pages like Archives, Categories and Tags created by the software when we publish a post will update automatically update with new posts.
  Though there is only one dynamic page in a blog for posts (not pages) http://en.support.wordpress.com/post-vs-page/ and we cannot post to more than that one page, we can create the appearance that we have posted to more than one page.

  This guide will walk you through how to create category pages for your blog, to display groupings of similar posts on pages other than your front page. http://en.support.wordpress.com/category-pages/

  Create a custom menu
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/#creating-a-custom-menu
  Add dynamic categories and sub-categories pages to it
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/#adding-category-pages
  Create order and sub-menus (dropdowns)
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/#changing-the-order-creating-sub-menus

  Here’s a link to my post on this http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2013/07/25/create-a-wordpress-website-step-by-step/

  There are many common errors, misunderstandings and misconceptions when creating custom menus and there are some tweaks you can use to improve your custom menu as well.

  Custom menus

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  crhspresentationzen · Member · Mar 7, 2014 at 8:12 pm

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  Thanks for responding so quickly, but it’s not really the answer I needed.
  There’s a page labeled HOME but it doesn’t show up in my list of pages and I can’t post anything on it
  (I’m using the Coraline theme)

  It may just be easier to switch themes

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  cjanmcmahon · Member · Mar 8, 2014 at 3:16 pm

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  I have the same question. Is there an easier way to solve the problem that to switch themes?