Thank you, Bob Carney! In case anyone was reading the exchange between Mr. Carney and me here and wasn't quite sure what we were talking about .... let me try to go through it step by step here.
You have a WordPress blog with the domain name www.mysite.com ... When people go to that URL the first thing they land on is your blog, which shows your recent blog posts. It changes as you add new blog posts, the newest always on top.
But suppose you want the first page people land on when visiting www.mysite.com to be a static page, maybe showing some special info and photographs about your community. That page would always be the same. And you want people to be able to just click on a tab to easily access the blog section of your site.
Here's how.
From the WordPress Dashboard, click Write -> Write Page, and write the stuff, and add the images that you want to appear on the opening page. Click Publish.
Now repeat. Write - Write Page. Name this second page "Blog". Leave it blank. Click Publish.
Now click Options -> Reading. At "Front page displays", select "A static page". In the Front page drop down menu, choose the main page you just created. Then in the Posts page drop down menu, choose Blog, that blank Blog page you just created.
If you are using a WordPress theme that includes navigation tabs (most themes do, I think, but not all) a tab is automatically created for each page. And since you've now created, and selected the "Blog" page for your posts ....
There it is right in the menu bar ....
In case you're wondering, Queen of Kludge is a site I've been using just to test stuff. It comes in real handy to have a couple "play" sites, so you don't muck up your real business sites as you experiment with new things. :-)
P.S. to Ginger, as we talked about yesterday, the Digg 3 Column theme does indeed support page navigation. Whenever you create a page, a new tab for the page is automatically added to your blog.
You should get paid for all of the wonderful advice you freely give out here. Seriously.
However I am extremely thankful that you are so generous with your time and expertise!!!
Thank you SO much!
Ditto to Kris's comment, thank you for spelling it out. I never heard of "Kludge" but it is a cool word-did you make it up?
You may have a war come primary time!
thanks
Joanne: Actually Kludge is one of my favorite computer words :-)
Paraphrased from Wikipedia: In modern computing terminology, a 'kludge' is a 'solution' to a problem, doing a task, or fixing a system (whether hardware or software) that is inefficient, inelegant, or even unfathomable, but which nevertheless (more or less) works. It has been suggested, as a folk etymology, or backronym, that KLUDGE stands for Klumsy, Lame, Ugly, Dumb, but Good Enough; which rather captures the point.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kludge
Kris: I'm eager to see the new blog!
Thanks for the vocabulary lesson Cheryl. Sister Grace Vincent would really have a good time with the modern English if she were alive.
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