How to edit the uneditable 'page' that displays on the opening screen?

  • ncpaaction · Member ·

    I realize this sounds pitifully ignorant, but, please, hear me out. There’s more to it than first meets the eye…

    The Question:
    What can I do to edit the part that comes up on the screen whenever someone enters my blog URL into a web browser??

    When my blog URL is brought on screen, what the viewer sees is COMPLETELY uneditable and undeletable by me, the blog owner. I cannot discover how to find an editable version of it in ANY toolbox or dashboard option.

    I have NO WordPress ‘pages’, I only have one (1) post. Even though my ‘Appearance’ menu says that all my posts should appear on that opening screen, what appears instead is that uneditable page.

    Why or how that initial screen appears is a mystery to me. It is the first post attempt I made (last October), but somehow, when trying to edit it a few weeks ago, it became inaccessible to any editing or deleting to me. It doesn’t show up in any Dashboard function; it doesn’t even show up as being a ‘post’ or a ‘page.’ It doesn’t seem to exist, except that it’s the only thing the viewer sees, instead of my actual post.

    ‘Dashboard’ only gives me editing and deleting capability to the one post that should be the ONLY post on my blog, but which does NOT appear when my WordPress URL is put into a web browser. In fact, the only indication to a viewer that that one post even exists is the fact that that post is linked to the IMAGE on that opening page.

    There is no way (that I’ve been able to discover, and believe me, I’ve looked and tried EVERYTHING that I could) to actually edit or delete that initial ‘page’ that has that linked image.

    I have NO idea how this could be, but there it is anyway. Is it a glitch in the WordPress system somehow?

    Any and all helpful replies deeply appreciated!

    The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

  • timethief · Member ·

    http://ncpaaction.wordpress.com/2013/10/12/ncpa-neighborhood-councils-precinct-assembly/ is a post.
    For editing see:
    http://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/edit-posts-screen/

  • timethief · Member ·

    Dashboard > Posts > All Posts
    hoover over the title and click “edit” link

  • ncpaaction · Member ·

    THE MYSTERY STILL REMAINS

    Thank you for your reply, timethief. Unfortunately, what you suggest does not help to solve the problem.

    As I wrote in my original help request, there is NO editable reference to this initial screen anywhere on Dashboard, any toolbox, or any other source.

    This is because, while what you referred to in your reply is indeed a post, the part of my blog that actually FIRST displays on every viewer’s screen (unless that viewer has logged in as the blog’s owner) is a ‘non-post’ (for want of a better word, as it is not a page, and it is not a post… I don’t know what it is). This ‘non-post’ had originally been an earlier post by me that I had thought I’d deleted long ago, but instead it has somehow been transmuted into that initial screen to my blog that every viewer first sees, and that I am completely unable to access myself to edit or delete.

    All of my true posts (all one of them, which is the one that you referred to in your reply) are listed under the “POSTS” section of the Dashboard. Yes, I can edit or delete that one post. However, there are NO other posts listed other than that one.

    As I mentioned in my original help request, the ONLY way for a viewer to get to that post, or to even know that there is another view of my blog possible, is for that viewer to somehow know to left-click their cursor while it is on the IMAGE that exists on that mysterious initial screen that comes up whenever someone enters my blog’s URL < http://ncpaaction.wordpress.com > into their browser.

    So, the question still remains:
    What can I do to edit or delete the initial view that displays on the screen whenever someone enters my blog URL into a web browser??

  • raincoaster · Member ·

    The mystery DOES NOT EXIST.

    Do this:

    Make a blog post. Make another one. Make another one. See? They all come up in a row on that page. That is your blog page. All your blog posts go there. Right now all you have is an Image post from last year. It has no title because it is in Image post format. If you want to edit it, click on the date and you will see that image post on its own page.

    If you follow those instructions you will see that the blog posts page per se is not editable, but that each individual post is.

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