Home page not accessible?
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I am very new at WordPress so please excuse me is this is a stupid question. I am creating a blog which I want to turn into a simple website with a static first page. I know to check the static option in the reading settings, but the Home page does not show as an option. In fact, I have three pages in total – but all indications on the dashboard are that I only have two pages, in no place I can see ‘Home’ referenced. (I created two pages earlier).
Now I created a new page called ‘About’, indicated that as my static page, and now the site shows an ‘About’ page with my static information, but also a ‘Home’ page with the same information and an area for updated blogs. I then deleted ALL my pages, and the page counts shows ‘0’ – but there is still a home page on the site, but no home page indicated on the dashboard. I can’t even find how I can add or change anything to that home page.
I was about to delete the entire blog but I thought I read somewhere if you delete the blog, the username is also deleted and I’d have to start over. I’m moving from ‘very confused’ to ‘ready to give up’.
The site is now listed as private until I achieve something presentable, but if anyone can help me with this I’d very much appreciate it.
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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Don’t delete your blog – the name will be gone forever.
The “Home” page should take you back to the start of your blog, some Themes come with a “Home” Page built in that you can’t edit.
This might help a bit: http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/front-page/
Not my strong suit on your problem but this should help a bit – there are several others that are better explaining what you can do than I and they should drop by and help.
It would help if you tell us what Theme you are using.
Don’t worry about blogs not being “Perfect” – just turn off search engines and it will not turn up in Google. Dashboard >> Settings >> Privacy >> check “Allow regular visitors, block search engines.
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The “home” page (the main blog page) is not a page in the normal sense. It is a dynamically generated page that shows your blog posts. You cannot really edit it.
Make a new page and name it what you want as your main page, save and publish it. Now set that as your static front page.
If you also want a page to show posts, then also create a page for that and save it and publish it. Set that one as your “posts” page.
Since your blog is set to private, I cannot see it, but if you are using a theme that supports the custom menu, then you can easily add and arrange the pages and also add categories if you wish.
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You have good information as well. Between the two of us we covered all the bases I think.
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And if the theme doesn’t support top nav custom menus, you can avoid the redundancy by hiding the About page – see here:
http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/hide-pages/ -
Thank you, all answers are very helpful (although the actual steps in WordPress to accomplish this is still a bit confusing!). So to be absolutely certain that I don’t have a non-editable home page, I need to find a template that doesn’t include a default home page, correct? The Theme I’m using now is Andrea, but I can find something else. Many of the themes have REALLY small text and apparently no way to change the font size, which is something I don’t understand at all.
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Finally did it! I don’t think I did it the ‘right’ way because it seems a little ‘more-steps-than-necessary’, but it’s working and I didn’t crash the system. :)
Of course now I have another challenge, but that’s for another post…..
Thank you to all.
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