Need help with home page, unable to edit

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  emeraldartstarotandastrology · Member · Dec 27, 2013 at 4:26 am

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  My home page is blank, and I can find no way to edit it to add content. I have checked dashboard for posts and pages, and neither shows the home page in the list.

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  raincoaster · Member · Dec 27, 2013 at 6:09 am

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  You haven’t created any posts. Do so and they will show up.

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  emeraldartstarotandastrology · Member · Dec 27, 2013 at 10:35 pm

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  There IS a home page tab but with a blank page. When I go to pages in dashboard the HOME page does not show up, if I add a new page that will be another page with a new title – I have already done that and created two new pages, and plan to create a third. The home page does not show anywhere. I selected (or thought I did) a static home page, with dated posts to be separate. Does this theme not allow that?

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  raincoaster · Member · Dec 27, 2013 at 10:48 pm

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  It does, but you haven’t created it. You have to have content in order for it to be displayed. Choose a page you’ve already published and set that as the landing page of the blog. See what happens.

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  timethief · Member · Dec 27, 2013 at 11:16 pm

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  By default the front page of your blog 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”.

  Set the Homepage

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  emeraldartstarotandastrology · Member · Dec 28, 2013 at 4:55 am

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  Thank you – I have been figuring it out – I did find the setting for static page hidden behind the rather mysterious dashboard menu link called “reading”, and set up couple of test pages to see where everything goes. I do have a related although different question so I hope its OK to ask here. I have figured out how to add an image to a post – but cannot figure out how to add an image to a page. What am I missing?