Restore Home tab / reset theme to default

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  germanlens · Member · Feb 25, 2012 at 10:53 pm

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  Hello,

  I am new to wordpress and blogging in general. In the past weeks I played around with different themes and settled for the Nishita-theme. In the course of testing the different themes and options, I lost the default “home” page for the Nishita-theme and I cannot restore it.

  People can reach my front page when clicking the header. However, I would prefer to have the default home-tab available, too.

  Is there a possibility, to
  a) restore the default “home” page?
  b) reset the theme to “factory/default” settings and start from the scratch? Each time I change the theme and go back to Nishita, my changed settings are there again – including the missing home page.

  What I tried so far:
  – Choosing a different theme that offers a home page. Going back to Nishita, the home page vanishs again.
  – Creating a page and call it “home”. This creates a slug “home”. I can set this as my static front page, however the page title “HOME” will always appear on top of the page. I do not like this for aesthetically reasons. Furthermore, doing this, my android phone shows me two “home” pages in the header.
  – I updated my browser. While my android phone shows the home page (before going on “show full page”), it is missing in Firefox, Chrome and IE.
  – Creating a custom menu “home” and connecting it with the url of my blog works. My theme, though, just allows me one custom menu. I will need this later one. And after the theme originally comes with a default “home” page, I would rather use the default.
  – Searching the forum if this question has been answered already in the past.

  – The “Hello World” page and “Hello World” post are gone for good. In the early stages of learning I deleted/replaced them and at some other point I emptied the trash to avoid further confusion. Wish, I would have tried these things in a test blog.

  As I do not have any content yet, I would not mind to reset my blog completely, keeping the name and restart from the scratch to adjust the settings. I just do not know how to do this.

  Any help is appreciated.

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  germanlens · Member · Feb 25, 2012 at 11:35 pm

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  O.k. After days of looking for a solution, I found a way just minutes after posting my cry for help.

  I will opt for the custom menu (Apppearance –> Menus) and create a custom menu “home” that I link directly to the front page. This way I avoid the page title “HOME” appearing on my front page.

  I originally wanted to “save” the custom menu for later options to link to a website outside of wordpress (e.g. flickr or another blog). I found out, there are other options to do this. It is possible to create a new page, name it and insert a link into the page title. After publishing this page, the page will link directly to the website without opening inside of wordpress.

  Hope this helps people with similar questions