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  springfieldmillrace · Member · Jul 16, 2009 at 4:03 pm

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  I’m using Ocean Mist, which doesn’t come with a Home page tab. I’d like to add one. I’ve read the archives, and there seem to be an equal number of “can’t be done” and “I figured it out” but no one is telling how.

  ISTR some trick with creating a Home page which would then auto-forward to the blog front page.

  Is there some way to do this?

  I’m running http://www.springfieldmillrace.org

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

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  thesacredpath · Member · Jul 16, 2009 at 4:16 pm

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  With the theme you are using, this is not really possible. With some themes, you can actually put a hyperlink into the page title and then when that tab is clicked, it ends up taking you to a page, but this trick does not work with the theme you are using.

  The static front page thing is also not going to work as you cannot have the a static front page you create (home) and the posts page set to the same page.

  This blog post by Panos explains the trick with the hyperlink as a page title and lists which themes it will work in, and in reality, only the left hand column of themes should even be considered for this trick. http://wpbtips.wordpress.com/2009/03/26/page-tabs-as-external-links/

  Just in case you did not know, your blog title is a link to your home page and anyone can click on it to get back to the main page.

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  springfieldmillrace · Member · Jul 16, 2009 at 4:21 pm

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  The problem is that I’m dealing with the non-blog-reading public; while feedback on the blog has been positive there is some confusion on how to get back to the main page. Nobody thinks about clicking on the title. I’ve got just a couple of weeks to get this thing polished and I don’t want to change themes now uless I absolutely have to.

  I’ve looked in the widgets and there doesn’t appear to be anything that would let me add a “Back to Home Page” button.

  The only workaround I can see is to add a “Back to the blog” to the bottom of every page. Not impossible, just ugly.

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  thesacredpath · Member · Jul 16, 2009 at 4:26 pm

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  Add a text widget to the top of the sidebar and put the following HTML in it:

  `Back to Home Page

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  thesacredpath · Member · Jul 16, 2009 at 4:27 pm

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  Let’s try the code again:

  <a href="http://springfieldmillrace.org/">Back to Home Page</a>

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  springfieldmillrace · Member · Jul 16, 2009 at 4:49 pm

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  OK, that got it. At least there’s a way to get back.