How do I get the original home/welcome page that was available?

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  montanaheritagehomebuilders · Member · Jun 15, 2016 at 4:35 pm

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  When you create a website/blog you have the option of having a home/welcome page as your first page or a recent blog posts page as your first page. At the time I chose to have recent blog posts as my first page, but now I would like to change that. I would like to be able to use the home/welcome page that comes with the site. How do I do this? I do not want to have to recreate everything. I am working on taking my website over to wordpress.com.

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  timethief · Member · Jun 15, 2016 at 4:42 pm

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  Have you tried to restore that page from Trash? If applicable see > restoring from trash http://en.support.wordpress.com/trash/#restoring-from-trash

  All support docs are at https://support.wordpress.com/
  https://en.support.wordpress.com/?s=front+page
  Results: Set a Static “Home” Page (Front Page)
  https://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/front-page/

  By default the front page of your blog is at the URL of the site and displays all published posts (not pages) in reverse chronological order, with the most recently published post on top. That is for the convenience of your returning visitors, who come to read your latest post, and who are not likely to be happy with being compelled to click through the same static page with the same blah, blah, blah on it every time they visit the blog looking for the latest post.

  However, if you do not want all the posts to show on the front page, then you can create a static front page called for example “Welcome” for your site and a “Blog” page for posts. To do that create two pages first http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/

  After you do that you go to > Settings > Reading and make the designation change and click “save changes”.
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/front-page/

  A static page (select below)
  Front page:
  Posts page:

  Create a custom menu https://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/#1-create-a-custom-menu
  Add the Blog page into it https://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/view-all/#adding-pages