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Hello, I am trying to set up for the first time. On my site I have a "home" page, which when clicked on displays the following message: "Not Found
Sorry, but you are looking for something that isn't here."....
On my Edit pages, THERE IS NO SUCH HOME PAGE that I can edit or delete. Help!! How do I get rid of it, or at least edit its content?????
You have that error message because it had content, and you deleted it.
You deleted the placeholder post that Wordpress makes to show you how the blog works. Your Home page is where the blog posts go. Make a post, and it will show up and the error will go away.
Leave Wordpress right now. Every single small easy thing you will ever try to do... your going to find yourself having to come here and ask... Only to recieve steps and work-arounds that are twice as much work as they should be.
Of course, someone can answer this for you. But chances are, after a year of working with Wordpress... you'll get a new idea. Chances are, you'll have to come here to ask for help. Chances are... it can't be done with Wordpress anyways.
Even though they say you can make a fully functioning website with Wordpress, you can't. Even though it looks like you can, sounds like you can... you can't.
Sorry to burst your bubble. Your better off with Blogspot or nothing but a mass email hitlist.
It's always best not to overpersonalize technical issues.
Passion never hurt a soul. A lost a year of my time and money..... To warn people that will probably happen to them too, is my devine right.
There right to know, too! Heed the warnings.
I beg to differ....
I am not a computer-savvy person at all, did a lot of reading before deciding to go with Wordpress, and one of the things that sold me on picking it was the positive feedback from their support forum
Whenever I had a problem (and I've had many, for the most part for my own inexperience) I got help here in less than 10 minutes, early in the morning, late at night, it seems there is always someone ready to help.
Until years later you get a new idea that can't be done with Wordpress. I'v had awesome help from the Forums too. Im not against any individuals here. Just Wordpress - the corporation.
It's always best not to overpersonalize technical issues.
Particularly as staff don't read the forums. As you'd know, if you'd look around the forums.
October wrap-up: 2,509,895 active wp.com blogs. Apparently adamhphoto knows better than all those fools.
word. absolutley.
Adamhphoto,
I think I am starting to get problems too... Silly problems for my own blog, or interference, ie.
Technical wise, I have not encountered much since I am no technical guy and hence I don't wiggle big times, just blog, delete and blog.
But I don't recommend Blogspot. Is there a way that Wordpress can migrate our contents out to another host if we need to just jump boat? Adam, you got any idea?
Almost forgotten, you may msg me at http://scopettg.wordpress.com
What's not to like about blogger? They are very generous. Before you even post your first post, they give you a bonus and start you out with over 300 XHTML errors and 65 warnings. And all for free. Typepad isn't that generous, nor is Live Journal, and Wordpress, what do they give you? Zero (0) errors and Zero (0) warnings.
If you work at it really hard, you can get that up around 1000 errors and nearly 500 errors in no time. That will certainly keep your computer processors and browsers in shape since they will have to process each and every one of those errors and warnings and figure out what to do with them.
http://opposablethumbz.wordpress.com/2009/05/17/for-those-of-you-thinking-of-switching-to-blogger/
http://opposablethumbz.wordpress.com/2009/05/29/returning-to-the-blogger-errors-issue/
http://opposablethumbz.wordpress.com/2009/06/14/the-official-google-blog/
Sacred,
I suppose it's not just the technical juice, Sacred. LOL~ It's similar with my experience in Wordpress where Wordpress just label my site as Mature without even consulting with me, and I am obviously unhappy with such service quality since I am aware of ratings.
If I am not wrong, years back, certain things did happen, including unfriendly judgmental meddling with accounts or people's blog operations. It usually happens in forums when a crooked moderators are in.
If Wordpress is continuing to give me the creep this manner, blogging won't be personal any more with Wordpress. You just can't have a few weirdoes deciding what's mature and what to do with other people's blogs and keep on saying this is right when who's really to judge?
People come to get a host, not to let the host play God on their blogging. If it's not illegal, it's just privacy.
Now, I have to leave this http://scopettg.wordpress.com here in case folks want to interact at blogs privately.
There must be someone with some common sense and come out with something technically as good as Wordpress who'd leave our blogging alone. They have no respect to old timers with them, in my view.
you'll get a new idea. Chances are, you'll have to come here to ask for help. Chances are... it can't be done with Wordpress anyways.
with wordpress.com? true, you can't do much. with wordpress.org? false... you could do basically anything. You'd just need to have knowledge of PHP to tweak the software however you want, and a hosting provider to host your blog.
For websites, though, if I didn't know how to program, I would use Joomla. To me, Wordpress is just for blogging.
scopettg,
Have you considered self-hosting your blog? With a self-hosted blog you wouldn't have those kind of issues.
@@dhanvantariayurveda and adamhphoto and scopettg,
I have blogs on blogspot, tumblr and wordpress.com as well as a self hosted wordpress install on my domain.
One obstacle to using blogspot is finding a template that actually validates (HTML and CSS), rather than having to recode the ones that are available. Right out of the box Blogger templates throw 300 or more validation errors at you before you have even created and published your first post.
Another obstacle to blogspot blogging is reputation management as so many no quality and low quality blogs and splogs with stolen and/or plagiarized content are hosted there.
For purposes of clarification here is a link to 2009 comparison chart of blogspot features versus wordpress.com features http://pulsed.blogspot.com/2007/07/blogger-wordpress-chart.html
If you have your own website with PHP/MySQL support, you can download free software and use with no restrictions from http://wordpress.ORG
The differences between wordpress.COM and wordpress.ORG are found here http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/please-read-me-first-before-posting?replies=1
adamhphoto has been given all these answers. And if he wants, he can come to my talk this Saturday on the differences between Wordpress.com and Wordpress.org.
@raincoaster
I wish I were over there sometimes but not frequently. ;) (islanders' joke)
If I were over there I'd love to come to your talks and lessons.
It's WordCamp VICTORIA. And I can comp you if you want.
I'd love to attend to one of rain's seminars too. I'm pretty positive it'd be a great experience.
Aw, thanks! Some day I'll be a famous TED speaker and then I can fly to speak at all of your towns.
Hi DevBlog,
Well, who hasn't? But here's the issue, to get a server is one thing, to manage the technical part is another. As you know, there are plenty of critters out there on the internet who'd mess with things for reasons you've totally the wildest of imagination.
Sally is annoyed, presumeably plenty of others are annoyed as well, because BING just without your invitations interfere with your operations and mess with your systems. It's a nuisance and bad publicity as the way that when customers are not happy and they bitch about it, you don't a customer service department but a legal department to dish out legal threats to customers asking them to shut up.
Now this kind of assholes do exist in real, and they will do anything with no regards to consumers to 'grow'. And Bing is obviously one of those. Some people blamed Cheru for featuring their sites at alphainventions without their prior knowledge (if I not recall wrongly), but Cheru's activities are private and harmless as in even my blog can start advertising your blog or your links. Which is also why I am pretty agitated when Wordpress label my blog as Mature when this blog is obviously more like PG-13, which is normal. But Bing... when it does what it wants, it doesn't care if it disrupts people's operation.
For instance, I am going to X site, and everything was fine, the links inputed, and there... I got BING-ed! All the time I thought I have loaded the site when I went to toilet. Bloody hell... ...
So for self-hosting, it's all the same. If Wordpress can't deliver the trusted management, then people would have to consider to move out. The reason why I have chosen Wordpress instead of Blogger was due to a heard customer service issue with Blogger.
So unless you are a technical guy with the Wire-God around blessing you, you are better off finding a good host and keep BING and all those silly hands off your blogging.
DevBlog,
Almost forgotten:
http://scopettg.wordpress.com
See? That's the big issue of finding a host that would leave you alone on blogging. I have to input this link everytime I post something.
Clearly nobody who are looking for Mature Stuff will come to my blog, and I got the rating. How not to be unhappy?
Is the blog you are talking about this?
" http://scopettg.wordpress.com/ "
I certainly don't understand the mature rating. no pictures… and it is not in English so I can't tell what this is about.
At any rate, these forums are not the place to discuss the issue. Staff has the authority to decide, not any of us volunteers.
Also, this is a "free" service available to the public. But more importantly, it is "their" business. They are the arbiters of what works for them and what doesn't.
I doubt that with "October wrap-up: 2,509,895 active wp.com blogs" there is anything personal happening.
If you are unhappy at WordPress.com then there are many options open to you.
Scopettg,
But here's the issue, to get a server is one thing, to manage the technical part is another. As you know, there are plenty of critters out there on the internet who'd mess with things for reasons you've totally the wildest of imagination.
Yes, unfortunately, we don't live in a perfect world and malicious people are always trying how to mess you up. Having said that, nowadays managing the technical part (which I believe you're referring to managing a server, correct me if I'm mistaken) is pretty easy unless you are setting up your server yourself. Why is it "easy", well because there are many hosting providers that do take care of securing their servers against cracking attempts (crackers are one thing and hackers are another thing. Hackers build things, crackers destroy them. Unfortunately the term is widely misuse, but lest I digress... that's a conversation for another time).
There are several hosting providers that do take security seriously and do their best to keep your data secure from crackers.
I saw your blog from your link in the post above and I saw some Chinese. If you're not in main land China, access to hosting providers here in the US should be pretty easy and without restrictions. I'm saying this because you might want to consider researching what hosting providers would best fit your needs.
I would recommend (in no particular order):
a) Dreamhost
b) HostGator
c) MDDHosting
You can search for reviews of these providers on WebHostingTalk
With these hosting providers, you don't need to worry about system updates: PHP, MySQL, Apache, etc. They do that. The only thing you'd have to take care of is updating the wordpress (or another blogging) software yourself. The current wordpress version has a button that you just click and the software updates itself... no need to download and upload those files to your server.
Security is the same as important on a self-hosted blog as it is on a wp.com hosted one. It depends of the strength of your password. If you choose a weak one, you're account will be cracked; it won't if otherwise.
So for self-hosting, it's all the same.
Is not, for the reasons I posted above.
Regarding Bing and what happened to Sally. I don't know her, and I don't want to assume, but unfortunately a LOT of people never read the steps nor the license agreements, they just click next, next, next, ok. They don't even bother to double check if a "Yes, I want to make ___________[fill in blank]________ my default search engine" checkbox is checked or not. Bing is run by Microsoft, and they know that by law they're required to present the users with all the information and privacy policies when such person is installing their software... Again, I wasn't there when she installed the software, but I bet they did ask if she wanted to make Bing her default search engine. That's why it's ALWAYS recommended to take your time and read whatever steps the software is presenting you when installing something. There have been times when I didn't finish installing a program because:
a) I didn't agree with their TOS
b) I didn't agree with their privacy policy
c) I was required to isntall something else in order to use their software
If I just went through the isntallation process without reading anything, who knows how much junk my computer would have now.
Since I ended up canceling the installation process of those programs, I looked for alternatives until I found those whose TOS and policies were more acceptable for me.
Bottom line is to read eveyrthing when isntalling something. Can be tedious? yes, but better safe than sorry.
With a self-hosted blog, you're lord and master of your domain. Is that simple. You can put ads, flash, javascript, iframes... etc.
So unless you are a technical guy with the Wire-God around blessing you, you are better off finding a good host and keep BING and all those silly hands off your blogging.
Not really, and I already explain that, unless you're setting up your server yourself. Besides, if you need to do something more "complex" Google can provide with lots of resources that can help you achieving what you want.
Bing is just another search engine... just as Google and Yahoo! are... and that's it. Bing should mess with your blogging at all, unless you installed their bar or something like that. I have FIVE self-hosted blogs and have never had a problem with Bing or other service like that.
See? That's the big issue of finding a host that would leave you alone on blogging. I have to input this link everytime I post something.
Well, if you been around these forums for some time, you'd have noticed that volunteers always ask for the URL of the person's blog because whatever may work for a self-hosted blog won't work here. Here the problem that people DON'T read is again clear: they don't take the time to read the stickies and they just assume that because the header has the WordPress logo, they can ask here if they have a problem with a SQL statement or a PHP error.
Because people DON'T read, they sign up for a wp.com blog and later wonder WHY they can't use Google Ads. They don't even bother to SEARCH the forums before posting a question that was probably answer 5 minutes ago.... And I could go on and on....
Did I digress? sorry if I did, just wanted to clarify things for you since it seems to me that you have a misconception of how some stuff work.
PS. sorry if you find errors in my post, but right now I'm just too tired to proofread it.
Even though they say you can make a fully functioning website with Wordpress, you can't. Even though it looks like you can, sounds like you can... you can't.
Sorry to burst your bubble. Your better off with Blogspot or nothing but a mass email hitlist.
Oh adamhphoto, you just burst my bubble. I just joined here. I have never done any blogging, or website or anything. I wanted to give it a try, they said you can do a website easily, (I am not very computer savvy) so I joined. Now you say NO. POP!!!
Nancy
threads (like the above) remind me of the personal side to WP, for all of its being difficult and sometimes frustrating, it is this 'human' element that has kept me a member for the last 4 months ('quiet down now, old timer talking")
Anyway, my thanks to the the volunteer side of this place, without the 'kind of help' you have afforded me, I would have been long gone. (By that I mean, I have found an atmosphere that is neither: 'you should expect us to do everything for you' nor: 'get in line we'll get back to you')
For me, the balance of help and (forced) self-help has been perfect.
Other than the times the forum sounds a bit like a over-sized and slightly competitive family (hey I answered that question right!" / 'no I did and it was a better answer'), I have gotten more from this place than I have given.
So, thanks to all. Good luck to whoever it was (at the top of the thread) who that can't be given enough. Now please stop wasting the time of the people who might answer my next really, intriguing question.
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