Static page as Home page

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  wedanart · Member · Jan 16, 2015 at 7:31 pm

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  I’ve tried two ways to create a static Home page. The first is by creating a home page (the link address even calling it “home”). When I do that, I can’t find a way to link it to the Home tab on my Menu. And when I click on Home, it says nothing’s found.

  The second way I tried was by choosing “static page” as the main page for my site, but the drop-down menu does not include Home as an option, only About, Contact, Blog, and one other.

  Can anyone help me out with this?

  TIA,
  Steve

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  wedanart · Member · Jan 16, 2015 at 7:56 pm

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  Update: I manually added “home” to the Home page’s URL in Appearance/Menus/Menu Structure, and it worked!

  Sorry to send up the flare, but glad I solved it myself. . . !

  Steve

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  timethief · Member · Jan 16, 2015 at 8:15 pm

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  You have two choices on any blog
  (1) All posts on the front page.
  (2) A static front page and posts on a different page.

  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.

  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/

  Then 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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  wedanart · Member · Jan 16, 2015 at 10:34 pm

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  Thank you, Timethief!

  Steve