Have tried creating Home page add content and use that as front page In Settings Reading
Do you mean go into the pages panel, create a new page labeled home, and then select that as the first page in the Reading settings? If so, I tried that and it didn’t work. Any other ideas?
where do you have wordpress installed is it root or a folder
I believe I installed it in the root…when installing via Fantastico I left the specific directory spot blank and just selected http://www.joaniesimon.com. The login of http://www.joaniesimon.com/wp-admin/ is how I log into the Dashboard.
Is there any other index file in root with
test test test test test for joaniesimon.com
if so delete the file
Okay, I went and looked and there wasn’t another index file. However, I went ahead and deleted this index and it seems to be using the loop now to display content, however without any formatting at all. I believe it’s this code, which is from the index.php and home.php:
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Looks like what ever you have in root is not installed properly uninstall wordpress and reinstall