How to trigger the “About” page to appear first

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    ittukuluk · Member ·

    I’m at the “Word Press for Dummies” stage.
    I am trying to create a blog called “Draft Dialectology: Random Posts” which will contain a series of posts describing various aspects of the dialects of Inuktitut.

    I don’t know how to control the order of appearance of posts. It seems to be based simply on the timing sequence. (Could I use categorizing to do this, and if so, how?

    I wanted to start with an About entry. I wrote that as a page, because I thought I could control its position. But when I open the blog as a visitor, the button “Home” appears in the balck area below the header picture BEFORE the button About.
    So the reader is launched precipitously into the posts, with no introduction.

    How can I get the About information to appear first?

    Mick Mallon
    Iqaluit

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

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    thesacredpath · Member ·

    You can set the about page as a static front page for your site.

    Set the Homepage

    Categories are the way to organize your posts into subjects or sections. Category pages will still show posts in reverse chronological order, just as the main blog page, but they will of course all be of the same category. The only way to change the order of posts is to change the published date on all of them so that they appear in the order you want them in. You can change the dates as explained here, but I would make sure and set the date before publishing since changing the date will change the URL, which will then produce 404 not found errors if the search engines have already indexed that post.

    http://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/schedule-a-post/

    You might also look at the procedure outlined in this support document for making a table of contents or index for your posts that would be in the order you want them.

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    mamasheadtrip · Member ·

    Hi, I’m no expert but maybe what I have done with my site might help ittukuluk.
    I wanted a ‘website’ look and function where articles are found on different ‘pages’.
    First I chose a theme with a custom menu, then created categories based on my seperate subject themes as I would like them to appear.
    I also created a new, blank page called ‘posts’.
    Then I designed a custom menu that included my Home page and the categories I wanted to appear along the menu. I set this custom menu as my prime navigation. It did NOT include my ‘posts’ page.
    Then I went into the settings > reader and set the Home page as static and all my posts going to the invisible ‘posts’ page.
    Now when I create a post, I simply check the desired category and that post will appear only under that menu option.
    I change the front page periodically, which although called ‘Home’ on my menu actually comes up in my dashboard > pages as the title of whatever article is on it at the time.
    Hope this helped somehow.

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