recreating 'HOME' page

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  sunmarble · Member · Feb 7, 2011 at 4:43 pm

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  I deleted our’ home’ page from the navigation menu. The link still exists in the navigation, but upon clicking it the page comes up with ‘Not Found’. Of course this also happens when you put the index/root address (http://suncommercial.wordpress.com) in address bar as well.
  How can I correct this?
  We are using pages exclusively and would prefer to keep it this way with no post/blog.

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  timethief · Member · Feb 7, 2011 at 5:25 pm

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  This “404” page not found is a result of deleting the “Hello World” post. When you publish a post it will disappera — not to worry. http://en.support.wordpress.com/not-found/

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  auxclass · Member · Feb 7, 2011 at 5:34 pm

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  Set your opening page to a Static Page

  Dashboard >> Settings >> Reading >> Front Page Displays >> Static Page – – I would probably use the Welcome Page

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  sunmarble · Member · Feb 7, 2011 at 6:22 pm

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  Yeah I had it set to static, guess I’ll relook at that. As I was saying, we don’t have ‘posts’ on this sight, so were trying to keep it that way. hmmmm… I’ll take a look at both of your suggestions, THANK YOU ;-}

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  sunmarble · Member · Feb 7, 2011 at 6:27 pm

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  o.k. so I took a look and at some point I think it was last week on Friday, or Thursday, I somehow changed from ‘static’ setting. It’s now to static and that worked, however now the question is, ‘Can I remove the HOME button from the navigation? I think that is what I did last week that then caused the change.

  Thanks

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  timethief · Member · Feb 7, 2011 at 6:28 pm

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  @sunmarble
  I see you have set the Welcome page as your front page like auxclass suggested. Cool. Issue resolved. Happy blogging. :)

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  sunmarble · Member · Feb 7, 2011 at 6:30 pm

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  yes that resolved that issue, but again, can I delete the HOME button in the navigation?

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  timethief · Member · Feb 7, 2011 at 6:41 pm

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  Coraline comes with a Home page coded into the template. See here > http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/hide-pages/#hide-from-the-navigation-menu

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  thesacredpath · Member · Feb 7, 2011 at 6:50 pm

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  @sunmarble, create a custom menu and then don’t include the “home” tab in that menu. Put your welcome page and the other pages you want in the menu, save the menu, and then from the “primary location” pulldown in the theme location module at upper left on the menu page, select your custom menu name and then click save.

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  sunmarble · Member · Feb 7, 2011 at 7:16 pm

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  Thank You all… I had this all set up for a few weeks while I’d been working on and then last week, somehow caused the issue. I’ve got it back to how I wanted it now… Thanks to all of your help.