Problem with static Home Page

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    nwchristine · Member ·

    Hallo,

    I have just been making my new blog/website with the Misty Lake theme.

    I wanted this more as a website than a blog, so have made Pages for the different things I want to include. I noticed that the Home tab is more for blog posting, so made a Home Page and made that static so it would be what people would see when visiting my site.

    However, as that page has taken over the Home tab that was originally there, the whole page scrolls to reveal the Contacts Page, and all the other Pages I have made!! This is not what I wanted.

    The other pages just show what I want for those pages so I decided to make the Home page/tab a Welcome Page instead and made that static. But that goes where the original Home tab was and so scrolls down to reveal the details in all the other pages!

    Is there any way that I can make a Home or Welcome Page that is static and only shows what I want for that page instead of having everything else at the end of it. I hope I am explaining it ok!!

    The site is at http://netherwinchendon1placestudy.wordpress.com

    Thank you.

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    midwifegrandma · Member ·

    I also have a static home page. After publishing other pages, when you click on the tabs, it takes you back to the homepage. I just paid the $18 to have a shortened url and now wish I hadn’t if it won’t work. My site that is not working is at mississippimidwife.com The site that works that is free is at midwifegrandma.wordpress.com.

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    timethief · Member ·

    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”.
    http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/front-page/

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

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    timethief · Member ·

    Please read this first Post vs. Page http://en.support.wordpress.com/post-vs-page/

    (1) There is only one page we can post to in any blog.
    (2) The static pages http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/ we bloggers create do not automatically update.

    Only the dynamic pages like Archives, Categories and Tags created by the software when we publish a post will update automatically update with new posts.

    By default the front page of the blog is the Page that displays all posts in your blog. You can create a static front page and have your published posts display on another page http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/front-page/ but doing that does not change what follows.

    Though there is only one dynamic page in a blog for posts (not pages) http://en.support.wordpress.com/post-vs-page/ and we cannot post to more than that one page, we can create the appearance that we have posted to more than one page.

    This guide will walk you through how to create category pages for your blog, to display groupings of similar posts on pages other than your front page. http://en.support.wordpress.com/category-pages/

    Create a custom menu
    http://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/#creating-a-custom-menu
    Add dynamic categories and sub-categories pages to it
    http://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/#adding-category-pages
    Create order and sub-menus (dropdowns)
    http://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/#changing-the-order-creating-sub-menus

    Here’s a link to my post on this http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2013/07/25/create-a-wordpress-website-step-by-step/

    There are many common errors, misunderstandings and misconceptions when creating custom menus and there are some tweaks you can use to improve your custom menu as well.

    Custom menus

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    sukascrabble · Member ·

    Hi, nwchristine! (I hope the preceding comments help, but if they don’t, here is mine).
    Frankly, I don’t think I really get it, other than that you think your problem roots from the static page. But if I grasp correctly, your problem is in the menu structure (apart from the static page).
    The idea of having menu (or category) is to make navigating (for the visitors) and organizing (for the blogger) easier. And I’m afraid, over time (now already?), what you have there will give you some real hard time for it’s too ‘page-heavy’–only one post so far, but a whole bunch of pages already (and you haven’t made the most of ‘category’–only one there is, ‘General’).
    Still, if hiding page menu from the top tabs is what you have in mind, then try [Dashboard] [Appearance] [Menus] and select which is to show (or not) from there.
    PS: I seriously suggest you make 5-10 posts again then ‘feel’ it for yourself how you (or anybody) will browse around your blog.

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