I published my blog page – when I viewed it the "edit this entry" shows up
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I want people to comment and be interactive with the posts – that was my fault for publishing pages first – actually that first link was correct and went to the page. As soon as I changed it to a post I received the 404 message.
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This may seem like I’m rambling but I’m not. This explains the differences between posts > http://en.support.wordpress.com/post-vs-page/
Pages http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/ that we bloggers create are static ie. they do not automatically update with new content. Only dynamic pages which are automatically created by the software when we publish a post ie. categories, tags, archives pages will update.
There is only one dynamic page for posts that automatically updates in a blog and all posts will display on that page. There is no way to exclude posts from the main posts (blog) page. By default the front page of the blog will display your posts (not pages) in reverse chronological order, with the most recently published post on top. If you do not want all the posts to show on the front page, then you can create a static front page http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/front-page/
Though there is only one dynamic page in a blog for posts and we cannot post to more than that one page, we can create the appearance that we have posted to more than one page. We organize posts by assigning Categories to them. You can create a custom menu and add the dynamic categories pages created by the software into the custom menu. Note that until there is one published post in any category there is nothing that can be displayed on the dynamic categories pages
http://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/categories/
http://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/
http://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/#adding-category-pages-to-your-menuHere’s a link to a custom menu walkthrough > http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2011/08/11/wordpress-com-custom-menu-walk-through/
There are many common errors, misunderstanding and misconceptions when creating custom menus and you can read about them here > http://wpbtips.wordpress.com/2011/12/19/custom-menus/
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I see a post and a page with the same content. Is it possible that you deleted the sample post then wrote your page. So when you went to your front / home page, you received the 404 not found error. If you had no posts because you deleted the sample, that would explain the 404.
If you then made the info on your page into a post that would explain why timethief and I no longer see the not found 404 message.
Try clearing your browser cache and cookies and see if that will clear up the problem for you.
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OK I do understand so just tell me one last thing – if I want to direct my customers to my wordpress posts which URL would I use to direct them there and then they can read many posts by date or category. That is the problem that I am having.
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By default the front page of the blog will display your posts (not pages) in reverse chronological order, with the most recently published post on top.
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