linking question

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    katebland · Member ·

    When you first view my blog, there are links to different pages on the right side (yes i named them categories, bear with me, it made more sense to me. i KNOW they’re not categories.) Anyhoo, I want http://katebland.wordpress.com to be the “home page” (obviously), but find that there is no way to link back to the home page when you are on another page. (ie. Click on the link for the makeup art page, and you want to get back home, how do you do that??)

    I thought I had figured it out by adding a page and calling it home, but that doesn’t work.

    Does this question make sense? I’m confusing myself.

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

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    thesacredpath · Member ·

    The title of the blog at the upper right is a link back to the main blog page (I know it is tiny and virtually invisible).

    You can either put a text widget into the sidebar with a link to the home page or you can try thing trick which should work:

    Create a new page (do not put anything in the body of the page) and for the title of the page, paste the following:

    <a href="http://katebland.wordpress.com/">Home </a>

    You can set the order of pages in the pages editor by setting the order numerically in the “attributes” section if you wish to put the home page link at the top.

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    katebland · Member ·

    I spent a lot of time trying to do the new page thing, but I just ended up with 2 pages that don’t go back to my main page. I got the text widget in, but I dont know how to put a link in there. I made a link by itself, but I cant even find it even though in edit links it says it’s visible.

    Is there a step-by-step tutorial of how to do everything? I cant find what I need in the support pages.

    Also, why does the text that links my pages have lines through it?

    Thank you :)

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    thesacredpath · Member ·

    I’ve been testing stuff in my test blog with this theme, and there is a problem with it that staff is going to have to fix. I’ll send in a support ticket on it, but it may be a few days or so before it gets fixed.

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    thesacredpath · Member ·

    Actually it is now working for me. It could have been a temporary server issue or perhaps high server loads – or a gerbil.

    You can see it on my test blog at http://thekingsshilling.wordpress.com/ .

    1. Start a new page.
    2. In the title field, paste the following: <a href="http://katebland.wordpress.com/">Home </a>
    3. Do not put anything in the body of the page.
    4. Publish the page.
    5. Go to your main blog page and take a look.

    If it does not show up, log out of wordpress, clear your browser cache, restart your browser and then look again. If it still does not show, go to appearance > widgets and remove the pages widget from the sidebar. View your main blog page and force refresh the page. Then go back to the widgets page, put the pages widget back into the sidebar, click “save” at the bottom of the widget wait about 5 seconds or so to make sure it has saved, and then click the “close” link.

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    katebland · Member ·

    I fixed it!! What I actually had to do was I DID type something in the body of the page.

    I typed “Home”, and when I published it, it linked correctly!!!

    Thanks for helping me figure it out.

    The only thing now is that my pages names keep getting strike-through on them.

    Thanks!!

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    justjennifer · Member ·

    For the theme you are using (Banana Smoothie) it’s the default behavior for a visited link.

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    thesacredpath · Member ·

    The strikethrough is the way that that theme shows “visited” links. If you clear your browser cache and then reload your main page you will see that the strikethough goes away. There is no way to change that without CSS editing experience and the paid CSS upgrade.

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