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magicandmedicine1 on "Rename "home" page"

magicandmedicine1 — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 11:13:04 +0000

Thanks justpi, that did the trick.

justpi on "Rename "home" page"

justpi — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 21:01:59 +0000

If you renamed the Home item successfully, then you probably forgot to activate the menu you created (by selecting it from the Theme Locations pulldown).

magicandmedicine1 on "Rename "home" page"

magicandmedicine1 — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 15:12:04 +0000

Hi justpi,

Thanks for this link. Having checked through these, I went to menu, pages, and view all. "Home:Home" was listed so I ticked to add to the menu, changed the name from "Home" to "The Blog" and saved the menu, but then when I went to view changes, it was still named "home." Were these the right steps and did I miss anything out?

On the right hand side of this menu item it is saying "custom" rather than "page" which sounds right.

Thanks again.

mindfullyartistic on "Double Home Page"

mindfullyartistic — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 05:36:37 +0000

I had fixed this once, but after having reset my cookies and such, I can't find where. The problem is I have two tabs coming up as home. I was able to change the name of one to 'welcome.' No page comes up in my Pages (on left side bar) as being called a 'home.' If I get rid of the one that says 'welcome,' I get 404 on both tabs. If I change the 'welcome' to say 'home' I end up with two tabs both saying 'home.'

Really, I don't care where the information is placed (ie on the home page or the welcome page).

I just want there to be one.

my blog is http://mindfullyartistic.wordpress.com

justpi on "Rename "home" page"

justpi — Wed, 30 Jan 2013 17:55:38 +0000

See here, esp. under "Other options, special cases and tricks":
http://wpbtips.wordpress.com/2011/12/19/custom-menus/

magicandmedicine1 on "Rename "home" page"

magicandmedicine1 — Wed, 30 Jan 2013 16:45:48 +0000

Hi there

Does anyone know how I can rename the home page of this blog to "The Blog".

I have looked at posts posted in forums on this but they tend to be from .org members and so the advice is different (relating to .php, etc).

Any advice would be much appreciated.

Also, is it standard practice to have the blogs in the first page or "home" tab rather than a page of explanatory text? It seems to be standard practice. And it seems with blogs people will usually know something about the thing/project being blogged about before they get to the blog as they will arrive there via social media, website etc?

Thanks for your help.

timethief on "Home page"

timethief — Mon, 06 Aug 2012 18:00:51 +0000

Good day to you,
I’m sorry to report that you have accidentally posted to the wrong support forum. We cannot help you here at WordPress.com with that site as it’s not being hosted by WordPress.com and we run on different software. This is the correct forum for your software http://wordpress.ORG/support/
WordPress.com vs WordPress.org: The Differences
http://support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/

caramelrell on "Home page"

caramelrell — Mon, 06 Aug 2012 17:56:33 +0000

I've exported my wordpress blog to my official domain, but the posts don't appear under my home tab. I can create a home tab, but my posts will not appear under the home tab. Does anyone have any suggestions? http://caramelconversations.com

supportbot on "Home page"

supportbot — Mon, 06 Aug 2012 17:56:33 +0000

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timethief on "changing page name"

timethief — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 21:36:20 +0000

Some themes have Home tab which can be used by visitors on any page in the blog to return to the front page of the blog. What you can do is create a custom menu. See > http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/i-want-to-remove-home-menu-on-the-tab?replies=10

shocpd on "changing page name"

shocpd — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 12:36:31 +0000

I set up my blog to have a static page as front page but decided to change this to have default posts page. I changed settings and it works ok. I want to change name of front page from Home to something else but do not seem to have access to this. I have the front page plus two other pages - I have access to the two other pages. In dashboard pages only the two other pages come up for editing.

Any advice would be fab.

Thanks
Sho

justpi on "Change the name of home page"

justpi — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 19:50:37 +0000

"But I think you're right, you can't change it's name."
Neither timethief nor I said this. We said you can, if you create a custom menu. Study the post I linked to.

timethief on "Change the name of home page"

timethief — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 19:11:16 +0000

Both juspi and I know we are correct when we provide information and it's my opinion that we provided the superior solution. That's why we did not suggest setting a static front page. However, if you are happy with that all is good.

Maybe you ought to consider the impact of that on your returning vistors and the impact of SEO. Will the visitors wish to click through the same static front paqge every time they come to your blog to read your latest posts? Based on my considerable experience as a blogger, I consider static front pages to be traffic killers and will never set one on my blogs. Read more here > Better Blogging at WordPress.com: Pages and Posts

kathryncubes on "Change the name of home page"

kathryncubes — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 19:03:22 +0000

Cheers guys,

I ended up adding my blog onto a different page and used the 'home' page as an about me section. But I think you're right, you can't change it's name.

I used these instructions, if anyone else needs to know how:
http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/front-page/

justpi on "Change the name of home page"

justpi — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 18:01:46 +0000

Plus here on custom menus:
http://wpbtips.wordpress.com/2011/12/19/custom-menus/

timethief on "Change the name of home page"

timethief — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 17:51:14 +0000

Some themes have Home tabs coded into them. there is not actual page to edit. They are only tabs. You can create a custom menu to resolve this. Please see here > http://wpbtips.wordpress.com/2009/05/06/the-home-tab/

kathryncubes on "Change the name of home page"

kathryncubes — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 17:47:16 +0000

Hello,

Is there anyway of changing my home page title to writing? It doesn't appear as a page on my dashboard.

Sorry if I'm being an idiot, I'm pretty bad at these things.

Thanks in advance for your help.

Kathryn

panaghiotisadam on "Pages"

panaghiotisadam — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 22:31:42 +0000

a) You create dropdowns by turning some pages into child pages - see here:
http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/page-attributes/
Or by creating and activating a custom menu - see here:
http://wpbtips.wordpress.com/2011/12/19/custom-menus/

b) I guess you mean the header image. If so, see here:
http://wpbtips.wordpress.com/2010/08/23/featured-images/
If not, point to the page/image in question.

creativesim on "Pages"

creativesim — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 15:55:08 +0000

HELP!!!!lol

I have a page (a-cupfull.com) and i cant find how to get different drop down menus etc...

I uploaded a post/pic in one of the pages, but it is showing in ALL menu/pages.... When obviously i want them all to be different....

Please help, going crazy lol

panaghiotisadam on "Why don't my pages show up?"

panaghiotisadam — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 19:27:47 +0000

You're welcome, and your questions aren't silly.

noelinesmith on "Why don't my pages show up?"

noelinesmith — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 17:49:37 +0000

Once again - thank you very much. As soon as I have blogged enough to bother with an archive (!) I'll have a go. Hopefully by that time I'll have got my head around things a bit better and won't raise silly questions!

panaghiotisadam on "Why don't my pages show up?"

panaghiotisadam — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 16:03:49 +0000

Your theme supports footer widgets as well: you can go to Appearance > Widgets and add the Archives widget to a footer widget area.

But if you don't like that and want a dropdown of monthly archives, you don't need to categorize your posts the way yo say: they are already sortable by month. The URL for all posts published January 2012, for example, is this:
http://noelinesmith.wordpress.com/2012/01/
So you can create a custom menu and add those URLs as custom links.

You cannot directly make the blog front display the current month's posts. But you can set the number of posts per page in Settings > Reading.

noelinesmith on "Why don't my pages show up?"

noelinesmith — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 10:42:12 +0000

That's great - thanks (and now I understand how 'categories' should be used!)

I don't want a sidebar so would like to have a top drop down menu for archives ie. Archive - Jan 2012, Feb 2012 etc. I understand now I need to categorise my posts as 'Jan 2012' etc. and how to create the menu with drop downs (I think!).
So, my question is, is it possible to make the front blog page show only the current month? If so, how do I then archive the January front page when we get to February?

Thank you.

panaghiotisadam on "Why don't my pages show up?"

panaghiotisadam — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 19:55:37 +0000

You're welcome!
If you want a Home tab as well, you'll need to create and activate a custom menu - see here:
http://wpbtips.wordpress.com/2011/12/19/custom-menus/

timethief on "Pages"

timethief — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 19:18:50 +0000

Some themes have "Home" page tabs coded into them. They are not actual pages; they are only tabs. They cannot be editied or deleted. What you need to do is create a custom menu.
http://wpbtips.wordpress.com/2009/05/06/the-home-tab/
http://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/

indigobridge on "Pages"

indigobridge — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 19:13:57 +0000

I was trying to switch themes. that didn't work so I tried to switch back and ended up with an extra home page. it isn't listed under my Pages
thank you!

noelinesmith on "Why don't my pages show up?"

noelinesmith — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 16:05:18 +0000

You're right - I changed theme .....
Sorted out now though. Thanks very much - once again!

panaghiotisadam on "Why don't my pages show up?"

panaghiotisadam — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 13:24:41 +0000

Ticking the boxes in Pages > All Pages is only for selecting multiple pages in order to bulk edit them, not for activating the pages. When you publish a static page, you automatically get a tab for it in the header area, except if a custom menu has been activated (you were probably using a different theme and switched to Chateau). Go to Appearance > Menus, select the blank option from the pulldown in the Theme Locations module, save.

noelinesmith on "Why don't my pages show up?"

noelinesmith — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 11:01:41 +0000

I'm using the Chateau theme and apparently can have additional pages. I've created an 'About' page and ticked the box in "all pages" but it doesn't show up on my blog. I'm obviously doing something stupid - but what?! Thanks.

airodyssey on "Pages"

airodyssey — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 02:16:11 +0000

For the convenience of other volunteers, let's remove the space to make that address clickable... http://beingmedium.wordpress.com/

This being said, to answer both questions, here's a question:
Your second "Home" page is empty. Why did you create it in the first place? What are you trying to do?