This is The Most Frustrating Thing Ever
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I’m a tech guy. I know what I’m doing. But I cannot believe how frustrating WordPress is to use for beginners. I just want to create a blog to post all my How Tos Troubleshooting Guides etc. I have spent a few hours clicking around trying to add a page. I clicked Add a Page and it created a page that was not visible and I couldn’t find it anywhere. What’s the point of a page if it’s not visible?! It took 2 more “Add a Page” locations (you know because for some reason there’s three of them scattered around) and one of them worked but the only problem is I have NO CLUE how I got there or where it even was.
So now I have a website, with a page that’s blank but I spent the time to create the content but I can’t even view it.
Oh, and support takes 1-2 days to answer???? What kind of support business model is that?
Am I the only one who’s ready to just delete it ask for a refund and go somewhere else?
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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Hello!
You may have looked at this already, but if not, it’s quite helpful getting started: https://learn.wordpress.com/
I hope that helps, and let me know if you have any other questions!
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Yes I’ve read through it all. The tutorial they give there doesn’t match what I am seeing nor what the site is actually doing.
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Hi,
You may be more comfortable working from the WP Admin section. You’ll find it at the bottom of the menu. It’s a little more old school, and my preferred method due to it’s familiarity.
I hope that helps, and let me know if you have any other questions!
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I got there before somehow, that’s what I mentioned above. But I can’t find any indication if it anywhere.
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If you click ‘My Site’ at the very top left corner, and then at the bottom of the menu do you see the WP Admin link?
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All I want is to add 1 page. This page would be called “Get Help”. Then there would be 3 sub-pages “Troubleshooting Guides” “How To’s” “Questions and Answers”.
It should be REALLY simple do something like this. The tutorial even states that creating a page will automatically show up on the site, yet when viewing it, it’s not there. It’s ghost. It tells you that you can set up subpages yet, I can’t find anything about this. I really don’t understand how WordPress is so popular. I don’t want to use something else because I KNOW that I will appreciate all the features later, but to setup is more frustrating than a “Some Assembly Required” furniture.
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Hi, @acrillix,
Welcome to WordPress! It can be confusing a bit at first. I’ve been there, and am still learning. :)
I also prefer the wp-admin link that @joerepublic is helping you find.
I would bookmark it for sure, and I just go to my site and add /wp-admin to the end to get there. :)For your pages not showing up…
There is a setting in menus that will automatically add a new page. It might be worth checking, as if it isn’t clicked on, your pages won’t automatically appear:
In Customizing–> Menus –> [Choose your Menu] –> Menu Options
Automatically add new top-level pages to this menu
The above is a checkbox. Could it be that it is not checked in your case?Is this in reference to guruofthegalaxies.blog ? I just want to confirm.
Let me know if that helps or if we can point you in a more specific direction.
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Thank you. I finally got the admin page. I checked Auto Add pages. Thanks. Hopefully, now I can figure this out.
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:) Take a deep breath, you’ve got this.
Head back to where you clicked to add new pages (above)… my guess is the Primary Menu was checked off. Take a look.
That link @jorepublic gave you is going to be a great resource.
Don’t forget to bookmark your wp-admin page, too. :)
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If a refund is the route you choose to go, see this page for details:
https://en.support.wordpress.com/refunds/There is definitely a learning curve – the support docs are really good, if you decide to give it another chance: https://en.support.wordpress.com/
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