• Resolved watchit1111

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    I am trying to get a basic web page up and running correctly. It isn’t intended to be anything fancy or complicated, just provide some basic details about my business. I have successfully created four pages of text, but the problem is that all four look like they are showing up on the home page– I want the home page to be just one of these, and the other three to be pages which a visitor can get to by clicking on a link, but I can’t seem to figure out how to do this. I consider having gotten this far to be a small miracle, but have shot several hours messing around with various files and pages trying to figure this out and have gotten nowhere. The website is kdsmobilenotary.com. Any suggestions for what I might do to fix this? Thanks!

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  • Hi!

    It appears that you created “posts” rather than “pages.” Posts are like diary entries and tend to show up on a single page of your choosing.

    Copy/paste your blog entries’ content (posts) into pages. Open one of the posts, copy all the content, create a new page, and then paste the content there. Do this for all four entries.

    This will also allow you to set up a menu where the visitor can click on the pages to see them.

    Hope this helps!

    Thread Starter watchit1111

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    Thank you for the respose, Gaby! I am still not quite where I want to be with this, though: when I look at my WordPress dashboard, and I mouse down to the pushpin symbol (which is the “Posts” symbol) and I click on it, a page comes up which says that I have no posts (which is what I want to have right now: no posts). Then, two icons further down the list, there is an icon that looks like two sheets of paper– I click on that and a page comes up that says I have four pages, and I can see all four right there on my screen.

    NOW, the FIRST entry on that list of four, which is the first one I created and is the one I want to use as my main page, says at the end, “Front Page, Posts Page”. I DO want it to be my front page, but I do not intend to produce any posts on my web site anywhere– is there some setting I can change so that this front page will NOT be a posts page, and will this (do you think) solve the problem? Please do let me know. Thank you again!

    I hope I correctly understand what you’re after.

    Go to Settings > Reading

    Change Front Page Displays from ‘Your latest posts’ to ‘A static page’ and select the page you wish to use as your home page.

    Thread Starter watchit1111

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    I have now figured it out. The problem had to do with my front page also being categorized or labeled as a post page. Once I got it to say that it was just a front page, the problem vanished. Thank you for your help with this! Much appreciated!

    🙂

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