Trying to set up a free website
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JB,
Re: my suggestion:You can remove the title and the page content, but only — I found while testing — if you put something in the excerpt module. A mere dot is enough to do the trick.
I followed this up, a couple of comments later with a correction:
I had been inadvertently testing with the similar Edin theme [not Motif]. With Edin, the parent page can be removed from visibility entirely with the trick I suggested. With Motif, an empty white box remains after removing the page title and content, and creating an excerpt.
But I was able to remove the title. Did you try to do that?
You also mentioned CSS Customisation and later mentioned that this was not available for WordPress.com members.
I don’t think I ever said the CSS Customization is not available to WordPress.com members. I said that the ability to edit Source Code is not available to WordPress.com members.
Do you think it is worth paying extra to get this?
I don’t know. Have never tried it. If want to modify fonts and colors, and do CSS customization without moving to a self-hosted site, it is an important option.
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MusicDoc,
I had been inadvertently testing with the similar Edin theme [not Motif]. With Edin, the parent page can be removed from visibility entirely with the trick I suggested. With Motif, an empty white box remains after removing the page title and content, and creating an excerpt.
But I was able to remove the title. Did you try to do that?
No all I did was create an excerpt and hope that the rest would disappear.
Now, I shall actually remove the unwanted bits using ELEMENTS
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Inserting something in the Excerpts.Kind regards
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#140(No Title)
1. On Edit, nothing appeared in the text of the page, so I could not do an INSPECT ELEMENTS.
2. I removed the Title, added the Excerpt and Updated.
End Result:
#140(No Title)
appeared in the Navigation Panel, where the word Stories was.
White Boxes remained in the text area of the page.
Kind regards
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JB,
Removing the title doesn’t require Inspect Elements. Just delete it and update. It should be gone.
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JB,
Re: Site Visibility optionsAllow search engines to index this site
You’ll get a lot more traffic by allowing search engines to index the site. Possible drawbacks include:
1. Some people decide suddenly that they want their site to disappear from Google search results immediately, and complain that it doesn’t do so when they make it private or delete the site. A deleted site won’t disappear from Google search results overnight, and Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine may retain caches of posts and pages of a deleted site for years.
2. You don’t have control over which pages or images Google selects to feature most prominently from your site. Which posts or pages are selected as the top six or ten from your site likely depends primarily on traffic-related factors.Discourage search engines from indexing this site
I sometimes choose this option for various reasons. The traffic is usually negligible because Google and other search engines don’t crawl them. In my experience, if the setting was once “Allow search engines to index this site,” and I change it to “Discourage…,” I’ll see the traffic rapidly decline either immediately or after a few days, eventually all but disappearing. I mean a lot of weeks with zero visits.
I would like my site to be private, visible only to myself and users I choose
Use this if you want no search traffic at all except by those you’ve invited. I’ll typically select this option for test websites, sites that have a lot of unstable content (such as YouTube videos, not downloaded) which I haven’t the time to maintain anymore, and sites in construction or revision which are not ready for public viewing.
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My Front Page is not the Motif Front Page, but a Static Page that I have chosen. A Static Page that adheres to a Grid Template.
When I select Edit
1. I see no text, title or anything else in the page content area.
2. I see the word “Stories” in the Title Box right at the top.So there is nothing for me to delete except the word “Stories” in the Title Box.
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Now all my stories have disappeared from my main page.
I was trying to trick the system by creating another page above the main page.This may take some time to get back to how it was.
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So there is nothing for me to delete except the word “Stories” in the Title Box.
Correct. On my test site I just deleted it and updated. The “page ID number (no title)” which will appear in the header menu instead of the title can be addressed by replacing the present header menu with a custom menu where the title of the link to the page can be “Stories,” or whatever you like, despite the lack of a visible title on the page.
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Phew, I got them back. I forgot to give the Stories Page a Grid Template.
The “page ID number (no title)” which will appear in the header menu instead of the title can be addressed by replacing the present header menu with a custom menu where the title of the link to the page can be “Stories,” or whatever you like, despite the lack of a visible title on the page.
Not quite sure if I understand what you have done here.
Did it remove the word in the Page Content area? -
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1. Stories is my Front Page
2. Stories is in my Custom Menu as a Grid Parent to a bunch of pages.What are you suggesting that I try?
JB
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Okay, good. So if you remove the title of the grid parent page and the link to it becomes “#140 (no title)” in the custom header menu, then just change the “navigation label” for that link in the menu structure. Change it to “Stories,” or whatever you like.
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The title that appears in the menu on the front page is called a “Navigation Label” in the Menu Structure on the menus page. You might also have to check “Primary Menu” in Menu Settings, which you’ll find below the Menu Structure.
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I can’t seem to get that #140 back. Let me keep trying.
While you were testing I went into pages and selected QUICK EDIT which gave me
Window – Title
Window – SlugI played around for that a bit to remove the title.
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Remember before when you were suggesting that I insert <b> into excerpt?
Well I went to pages, then to Quick Edit, which displayed Title Window and Slug Window.
Then I inserted <b> into the Title Window and Presto my titles have disappeared.
So too has the word Stories in the Navigational Panel, but hey, I don’t need it there.
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You don’t need it in the navigation panel?
Correct, I do not need it there.
My webpage automatically opens at that same Static Page.Now with regard to the slug, what you say is correct.
It would be small case: “stories.”
However, when the system is tricked like this, all is fine until you go to check on your edit. Sometimes it defaults back to what it was, particularly if the slug reveals “stories”.
So at this point, I do not want to check if the slug reveals “stories” in case it defaults back to what it was.
I will, however, check at a later time to see what happens.
JB
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