accidentally created two "home" pages

edstevensdba · Member · Feb 12, 2011 at 4:58 pm
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Just established my blog a few days ago and am experimenting with some features. Tried to set up a static “home” page but the site now shows two tabs named “Home”, one of which shows “page not found”. When I go to “pages” on my control panel, only one “Home” is listed. How do I get rid of the extra, “not found” home?

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timethief · Member · Feb 12, 2011 at 5:46 pm
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Not to worry. A quick search to support documentation here http://en.support.wordpress.com and forum threads provides the answer as this question has been asked and answered many times brfore.

<blockquote. The most common reason for hiding a page from the navigation menu is when you’ve setup a static front page. Many themes are hard coded to display a “Home” link even when no other pages exist. http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/hide-pages/
airodyssey · Member · Feb 12, 2011 at 5:46 pm
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Hi. If you set up a static home page, here’s how to remove the superfulous “Home”:
http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/hide-pages/
edstevensdba · Member · Feb 12, 2011 at 6:43 pm
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Thanks for the replies. Following up on the ‘hide-pages’ bit … the properties of my “home” page (as listed on “pages”) is already set to “no parent”. So it would appear something else is going on here. Since my original post, the “page not found” has been replaced with the text of the page – so now I’m displaying two identical “home” pages, though only one is listed in my setup.

If, as the cited article suggests, the problem is partly due to my theme imposing a Home page by default, I’d be happy to just delete my own Home page if I knew where to go to edit the ‘default’ one, but I’ve not been able to locate such …
edstevensdba · Member · Feb 14, 2011 at 9:37 pm
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Solved it. The first time I read the instructions on the “hide-pages” reference, they showed a graphic for selecting “no parent” (as one of the properties of the page), so I thought that was what I was supposed to do – and to no effect. Thinking on it some more, I select on of the other pages to be the ‘parent’, and voila!
timethief · Member · Feb 14, 2011 at 9:41 pm
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Yay! You worked this out and succeeded. Happy blogging! :)
travelers12 · Member · Feb 15, 2011 at 2:52 am
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how can i put another blog on with using my email adress
travelers12 · Member · Feb 15, 2011 at 2:55 am
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why can”t i put another blog using my email address
timethief · Member · Feb 15, 2011 at 3:41 am
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Please do not post off-topic questions into existing threads. This thread is marked “resolved” so it’s lucky I even found this. Please start your own thread using this link and we will gladly help you. > https://en.forums.wordpress.com/forum/support

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