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Thanks. That plugin looks promising; I’ll try it when I have more time.

Thanks. I can see that article is generally on the subject, but I don’t know enough to translate that into what to do to change the color of the menu-name of the current page.

One second thought, there’s way too much stuff I need to put into the HEAD section of this one page to have it there for all pages. If I can’t have a HEAD section for one page different than for other pages, I’ll probably make that page a separate, non-WP, page and pop it up from a link.

Any other suggestions welcomed…

I’m still considering whether it would be better for me to get my own WordPress account on a good host instead of using the free WPMU installation. I have developer tendencies, at least enough to want to be able to do what I want when I want instead of asking the admin to do things that I “should” be able to do. For another example, I don’t like that the “template author” link at the bottom of my pages doesn’t open a new window, but instead takes the user away from my site (and to a Japanese language page :-). I assume that’s a simple fix if I had access to “my” files but I don’t know if it’s fixable with MU (it’s a template they provide with the installation). Would you like to offer an opinion re the benefits (or not) of getting my own WP installation?

Thanks so much from this newbie!

>edit header.php and remove the LI that displays the Home link<

Where/how would I find that page?

>The comments should automatically appear<
>Go back to Admin / Settings / Reading and make sure you did not accidentally select About instead of Blog as your posts page<

Bingo! Everything is in its proper place.

OK, I created a new page called “Home” and assigned that as a static page for the Home page. Now the Home page indeed is that page, but I also have a text “Home” menu item in its alphabetical place in the menu. Can I get rid of the text “Home” menu item?

Also, if I had lots of comments in the blog that was on the previous Home page, how would I move that whole set of comments to the Blog page?

>if you add in a role management plugin, it may be possible to restrict private posts based upon the logged in user’s access level.<

That sounds very interesting. Do you know of a role management plugin to recommend for this purpose? I did some searching and found a couple of possible suspects, but one was no longer supported and the other had almost nothing written about it.