Starting from scratch

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  sandrinemaugy · Member · Nov 25, 2016 at 4:21 pm

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  I started a blog on wordpress.com and I really messed up the menus, nothing works. I would like to start again from scratch. If I erase the blog completely, will the name become available again straight away for me to start my blog again with the same name? Thank you

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

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  antonyagnel · Member · Nov 25, 2016 at 4:36 pm

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  Please follow the steps mentioned in this support document.

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  sandrinemaugy · Member · Nov 25, 2016 at 4:45 pm

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  Hello,
  I did all that, it didn’t help. My menus are still messed up even if I erase everything. I even tried erasing and then changing theme but the new themes I try keep the menus I messed up… so it still doesn’t work.
  My problem is that I tried to change the menu headings (home, blog, about, contact) to just (home, posts and contact) but now when I add a post it doesn’t show anywhere. :(

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  sandrinemaugy · Member · Nov 25, 2016 at 4:46 pm

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  Oh, and the blog I need help with is not the one mentioned above, that’s my main website, that works fine. I need help with my side blog project.

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  antonyagnel · Member · Nov 25, 2016 at 4:56 pm

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  I even tried erasing and then changing theme but the new themes I try keep the menus I messed up.

  You need to delete the Menu contents first. Learn more about working with menus from here.

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  antonyagnel · Member · Nov 25, 2016 at 4:57 pm

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  What’s the URL of the site you need help with?

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  sandrinemaugy · Member · Nov 25, 2016 at 5:29 pm

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  It’s called floraspatch

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  timethief · Member · Nov 25, 2016 at 6:08 pm

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  This site http://sandrinemaugy.co.uk/tag/floras-patch/ is hosted by 1&1 not by wordpress.COM. It is not on our wordpress.COM servers and we cannot help you here at all. You are posting to the wrong support forum.

  We provide support only for wordpress.COM hosted sites. Our support docs do not apply to
  (1) local installs of wordpress.ORG software on your own server or
  (2) wordpress.ORG software installs on paid hosting, and we do not provide support for them at wordpress.COM.

  Also, note that we do not provide Jetpack support https://jetpack.com/support/ for sites linked to wordpress.COM accounts with the Jetpack plugin so they display on the My Sites wordpress.com account page.

  Some Jetpack solutions are here http://jetpack.com/support/

  Others are in the Jetpack support forum at WordPress.org
  http://wordpress.org/support/plugin/jetpack

  However, if help cannot be found at either one then they can file a Jetpack support ticket here > http://en.support.wordpress.com/contact/?jetpack=needs-service

  WordPress.COM and WordPress.ORG are completely separate and have different username accounts, logins, features, run different versions of some themes with the same names, and have separate support documentation and separate support forums. Read the differences here http://en.support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/

  As you are referring to a site that is not hosted here, if you don’t have a username account at WordPress.ORG account, then click http://wordpress.org/support/ and register one on the top right-hand corner of the page that opens, https://wordpress.org/support/register.php so you can post to the support forums there.
  Resetting your WordPress.ORG password http://codex.wordpress.org/Resetting_Your_Password
  WordPress.org support docs are at https://codex.wordpress.org/Main_Page
  See also https://apps.wordpress.org/support/

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  timethief · Member · Nov 25, 2016 at 6:10 pm

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  This site is hosted by wordpress.com https://floraspatch.wordpress.com/

  Your detailed theme description page is at https://wordpress.com/themes/sela/ and that’s where set up instructions for it are found. The live demo site is at https://selademo.wordpress.com/

  You must be logged in under the exact same username that registered the site to be able to access the site. The Admin login link to the dashboard for every blog hosted by wordpress.COM is:

  http://NAME_OF_BLOG.wordpress.com/wp-admin/

  Replace NAME_OF_BLOG in that URL with the actual name of your blog.

  For creating a post in the New editor see here http://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/#publish-a-new-post
  For creating a page in the new editor see here
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/#create-a-new-page

  For editing in the new editor see:
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/edit-posts-screen/
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/edit-pages-screen/

  Creating a custom menu https://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/view-all/

  On the bottom of your Admin page you will find a link to the step by step Learn WordPress.com blogging Tutorial prepared by Staff. http://learn.wordpress.com/

  See also the “Video Quick Start” tutorial http://en.support.wordpress.com/video-quick-start/

  The support documentation is all found at the Support link http://en.support.wordpress.com which is also on the bottom of your Admin page.

  Any WordPress blog can be restructured from being post based to being page based – no upgrade required. For greater clarity read > http://en.support.wordpress.com/using-wordpress-to-create-a-website/
  See also:
  https://en.support.wordpress.com/five-step-blog-setup/
  https://en.support.wordpress.com/five-step-website-setup/