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  bradshawxxiii · Member · Mar 25, 2015 at 5:59 pm

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  How do I remove the wordpress ad on the front page?

  Currently, it;s a black band stretching across the middle of the screen with “Create a free website or blog at WordPress.com. | The Modularity Lite Theme” written on it.

  Kinda destroys the front page!

  Thanks

  P.

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

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  auxclass · Member · Mar 25, 2015 at 6:06 pm

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  Current Terms of Service:

  11. Attribution. Automattic reserves the right to display attribution links such as ‘Blog at WordPress.com,’ theme author, and font attribution in your blog footer or toolbar. Footer credits and the WordPress.com toolbar may not be altered or removed regardless of upgrades purchased.

  http://en.wordpress.com/tos/

  May I remove the Admin Bar, credit links such as ‘Blog at WordPress.com’, theme, font, or toolbar links?

  All WordPress.com bloggers are required to maintain the Admin Bar (the dark bar that appears at the top of WordPress.com sites when logged in) as well as credit links, even our VIP bloggers. Please do not hide or alter text or links for the footer credits or the toolbar. Modifying the style of the footer text (i.e. colors and font size) is fine as long as it’s still readable.

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  bradshawxxiii · Member · Mar 25, 2015 at 6:33 pm

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  Ok – but can i at least move it so it’s not dominating the page? According to my dashborad, there are no footers active.

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  auxclass · Member · Mar 25, 2015 at 6:42 pm

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  Add some content to your blog – the content will push the footer down automatically – look at the site linked to my name if you want to see what a site looks like with some content

  YOU HAVE NOTHING in your site – it will look messed up until you add some Posts or Pages

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  timethief · Member · Mar 25, 2015 at 6:55 pm

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  I’m with auxclass. There are no published posts on the front page and when there is the footer will appear below it.

  Here are some basics I will share with you.

  To verify blog ownership of a WordPress.com hosted blog with the major search engines you must use this process > http://en.support.wordpress.com/webmaster-tools/
  Note: Even if you do not verify the blog the content will be indexed by search engines so don’t feel panicky about this please.

  WordPress.com automatically supplies sitemaps for our blogs to search engines – we do nothing. http://en.support.wordpress.com/sitemaps/#xml-sitemaps-for-search-engines

  It can take weeks for search engines to index content in a new blog and/or to re-index content under a new URL. For more information read > http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2010/01/21/omg-i-cant-find-my-blog-on-google/ and we cannot help with search engine issues. http://en.support.wordpress.com/search-engines/

  re: front page error message found on every new .wordpress.com blog

  Nothing Found
  It seems we cannot find what you are looking for. Perhaps try a search?

  There is nothing wrong with your site. By default the front page of the blog is the only page that will display all published posts on it. As soon as you publish a post not a page the front page error message and searchbox that appears on every new WordPress.COM blog will be gone. http://en.support.wordpress.com/post-vs-page/

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

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

  re: website or blog
  A blog is a post based website designed for interactive communication. As the posts are frequently updated and appear on the front page of the site it’s very attractive to search engines.

  What most people call a website is merely a page based site that functions as a one way noticeboard. As the structure is page based and as pages are for static content that rarely changes, and as pages do not have RSS feeds it is not as attractive to search engines as a post based blog structured site is.

  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/

  Here’s a link to my step by step post too http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2013/07/25/create-a-wordpress-website-step-by-step/

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  bradshawxxiii · Member · Mar 26, 2015 at 12:28 am

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  Thanks for the help, I tried to add some content, but I’m trying to showcase my art and keep the wording to a minium. Problem is, every time I put up logo that turns it into a large square, blocking out half of the background image. So no matter what I do, there are still chucky shapes all over the scvreen.