two quick questions
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Hi there,
I’m hoping someone can help me figure out how to get my About page back and tell me what’s supposed to go on the right hand side of my screen (there is a lot of empty space and I can’t figure out what goes there.)THANKS
gigisanchez.wordpress.com
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Did you delete your About page permanently? If not it will be in your “trash” and you can reclaim it.
If it’s not in your trash you can make a new one. Here are the instructions http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/
The theme you have chosen Tony does have a right hand sidebar. As soon as you drag widgets into it on the Admin side of your blog a sidebar will become visible. http://en.support.wordpress.com/widgets/using-widgets/
That being said, this theme is odd in that it has a large empty space on the right hand side beyond the sidebar that cannot be utilized.
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Thanks, timethief.
It worked (it was not deleted permanently). The only problem is, I can’t get it on my home page. In fact, I seem to have lost all the links that were on my home page. I have no idea where they are or how to get them back. If you can tell me how to get the About page back on my home page, I may be able to do the same thing with the others.
Thanks for the other info, too.
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Hmmm … did you delete the welcome post and the comment post as well? if so are they in your trash?
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If you can see the About page in your Admin section and you can open it for editing then all you have to do is click [Publish]
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Hi timethief,
I think I might need some really specific directions. I’m sorry. I don’t see an “Admin section.” I see “dashboard” and then “pages” but I don’t see “publish” anywhere.
I think I deleted the comment post and that part doesn’t bother me so much but the welcome post -I don’t remember that and would like it back, if possible. I didn’t permanently delete anything.
I don’t know what you mean by “in the trash.” I see that I can trash anything but I don’t see a general trash folder.
Here’s the link for my about page but nothing’s on the home page.
http://gigisanchez.wordpress.com/about/
ps: that’s a great picture
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To create a new post, go to Posts > Add New
http://support.wordpress.com/posts/#videoTo create a new page go to Pages > Add New.
http://support.wordpress.com/pages/#videoTo learn about the differences, see the Post vs. Page support page.
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I know how to post and I know how to add a page. What I’m saying is that they are not going onto my homepage. I can’t watch the video because I have dial up. My home page is BLANK. Nothing’s transferring onto it.
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Pardon these elementary questions, but did you “publish” the posts and pages?
Go to posts > edit and look at the right hand column under “date” does it say “published” for the posts you have created?
Same with pages > edit in the date column.
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I’m about to give up and delete my blog. I apologize if I’m not explaining this clearly. Feel like I’m being real clear.
It’s not the posts I have a problem with. If you go to my blog, you can see where I’ve added a post so it’s clear I know how to do that. It’s the About and other pages, etc. that aren’t showing up.
gigisanchez.wordpress.com
Yes, I click on publish to post. Posting a post is not an issue.
HOW DO I GET THE ABOUT LINK ON MY HOME PAGE? I need very specific directions. It is not showing up. I can find it off my dashboard when I click on a few links but it is not showing up on my home page. I don’t know how else to say this.
Thanks.
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You have to add the pages widget to the sidebar by going to appearance > widgets and dragging and dropping the pages widget over and into the “sidebar” pane at right. Make sure and move it around and wait for the grey outlined box to appear before releasing the mouse button.
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If the above does not work, on the appearance > widgets page, click on the “screen options” tab at upper right and click the “accessibility” option. That will put an “add” link in the widget title bars and you can then simply click that to add the pages widget. IE has some issues with the widgets page.
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SacredPath and TimeThief -you both look so friendly.
Hey, SacredPath, it worked. Thanks. I’ve got it saying “About” two times, though. One is black and you can’t click on it, the other is green and you can. So now I’m trying to get rid of the black one. Also clicked on the accessibility option but there is no link called “add” anywhere that I can see. I guess it doesn’t matter so long as I can get rid of the black About.
I got your comment, TimeThief. Thank you for that test. You are my first comment-er.
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Go back to appearance > widgets and in the “sidebar” pane, click on the right end of the pages widget title bar and it will open. You can then change the title of the widget to whatever you want.
And you are welcome.
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I got it. Whew, that was time consuming. I guess I’m a novice at wordpress. Thank you so much for your help.
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I’m glad you got it. When I went to your blog and didn’t see a post on the blog, I thought that somehow they weren’t getting published. I also thought that the same thing might be happening with the pages, and even if you have the pages widget in the sidebar, if you had no published pages, the widget would not show up.
And you are always welcome for the help.
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If everyone’s asleep, I understand. I may get back to this some other time.
I may have spoken too soon. Is there a place where all these directions are laid out clearly, for newbies? I did get the reason why one is black (that’s the heading, I’m guessing) and the green is the link people click on to read. I got two of them up and I’ll redo them so you can see. This is crazy though, this could take a year :-(
I’ll show you in a minute. It will say:
Pages (in black)
About (in green)Stories (in black)
About (in green)About is just the word I typed in “pages” to add a page (not a post). I’m trying to get each post to show up as a page, so that people can click on a story under “stories” instead of having to scroll down the whole blog.
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You need to read this link that timethief gave you on the differences between pages and posts: http://support.wordpress.com/post-vs-page/ . They are different and for different purposes. Pages are for static content – content that seldom if ever changes – such as an “about” page, or perhaps “my favorite books” page, or a copyright statement or comments policy – that sort of thing. You can think of a page as a single standalone post that is not part of the blog (normal post) structure.
Posts are sort of like a diary where you create new ones on whatever subject you wish and they appear on the front page of the blog in reverse chronological order.
You cannot use the pages widget to show posts. The pages widget is for pages.
To show a list of your posts in the sidebar, you can use the “recent posts” widget which will show a list of up to 15 of your latest posts: http://en.support.wordpress.com/widgets/recent-posts-widget/ . If you want to show more than that, you can use a text widget with the archives shortcode in it which can be set to show all your posts in the sidebar, but this can quickly become unwieldy when you get over 25 posts or so. The archives shortcode has the ability to show the list of posts as a pulldown, but this has issues since the width of the pulldown itself is determined by the length of the longest post title and it can end up hanging outside of the sidebar area which looks tacky in my opinion.
Another possibility is to create your own “archives” pages (name it whatever you wish) and use the archives shortcode in that page and it will produce a complete list of your posts in reverse chronological order. The “archives” page would then show up in the pages widget. One of the beauties of the archives shortcode is that it automatically updates as you create new posts.
http://en.support.wordpress.com/archives-shortcode/
The support pages here at wordpress.COM are some of the best I’ve seen anywhere and contain virtually everything you need to know about wordpress.COM and blogging here, http://en.support.wordpress.com/ , and the main support page has things indexed by sections and subjects.
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Good Morning :-)
Thanks for all that information. To be honest, I don’t really want a “blog” because I’m not interested in “posting.” At least, not for now. I just want to be able to have a number of stories on the web and have people click on their titles and then be able to read them. I like wordpress so I created it here. I like what you said about the archives. I’m going to try that. Also going to try and just put them all in as separate pages -that might work, too.
Thanks again to both of you.
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If you are not going to be making posts, then my suggestion is that you create a static front page for the blog. On that page, you can write an introduction, and then if you wish, you can also have links to the stories right in the body of that page. That way you don’t have to worry about a posting page if you do not want to do normal posts.
You can either NOT create a “posts” page as is suggested in the above support document, or you can and then either hide that page by making it a child of another page, and then excluding it from the pages widget.
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