Newbie help needed

  • Hi

    I started my first blog this morning using WordPress in iPage (or should that be iPage in WordPress?)

    Anyway. this evening I have written and published my first post, Vanguard, only I can’t see it on my site: ktwargaming.com
    https://www.ktwargaming.com/index.html

    Under Activity on my dashboard it describes the post as Recently Published, but there is no sign of it on my site.

    Please help

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  • Well it is published because I found it here: https://www.ktwargaming.com/2015/02/18/vanguard/

    Have you set your home page and blog page yet? Where do you want your posts to appear? I think you do this in settings > general or settings > reading. Not quite sure without looking.

    Thread Starter TimRS

    (@timrs)

    Thanks for trying to help but how do I set my home page and blog page?

    I want my posts to appear so they are visible when people view my site.

    I’ve got to Settings, clicked on it and that brought up Control Panel Settings but can’t see where to from there

    Thread Starter TimRS

    (@timrs)

    If I go to https://www.ktwargaming.com/ I just get my header and header pic, but no post

    I think you need settings>reading it’s a part of the menu on the left side of the dashboard.

    https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Settings_Reading_Screen

    Thread Starter TimRS

    (@timrs)

    Sorry, I was looking in iPage Settings.

    Have found WordPress Settings and gone to Reading. Front Page Displays is set for Your Latest Posts.

    But nothing at: https://www.ktwargaming.com/

    Oh I think I get it now. Your front page was built in iPage. I know nothing about iPage. I’m guessing then, that you have your WP blog set up in a sub directory or something? I don’t think that you will be able to get your blog posts on your non-WordPress page unless you are really goood with PHP!

    I am sorry if I have misunderstood you.

    Thread Starter TimRS

    (@timrs)

    Should I be building in iPage then? I thought iPage was hosting my WordPress site?

    I don’t know what iPage is.

    When I use WordPress it does everything for me static pages and bloggy stuff and anything else I can manage through plugins and a bit of code tweaking.

    Maybe someone else here will know what iPage is. Is it a page builider thing? Is it a WP page builder thing?

    Thread Starter TimRS

    (@timrs)

    iPage is the web hoster

    https://www.ipage.com/ipage/index.html

    Looks like you don’t have WP installed in the root of your site. If you have an index.html file there, remove that.

    Thread Starter TimRS

    (@timrs)

    Thanks for replying.

    When you say “your site,” do you mean at WordPress or the web host iPage? And how do I find the “root” of my site?

    Your WordPress site is on iPage. The site visible here:

    https://www.ktwargaming.com/index.html

    is not a WP site. If you have installed WP already, it’s probably not showing up because that other site is in the root of the server space – i.e. where you installed that site and WP. Try looking in your file manager (ask iPage how to use that) and remove the index.html file.

    Thread Starter TimRS

    (@timrs)

    I did email iPage earlier but no reply so far.

    There is a Control Panel Settings but I can’t see any reference to a file manager

    Thread Starter TimRS

    (@timrs)

    A ha! Have found file manager at iPage and deleted index.htm

    Now when I search for ktwargaming.com I get a new result. It is my first post but my header has gone. I guess I shd try editing it to create a new header

    Yes, that header was not in your WP site. But you should be able to add that if your theme supports custom headers – what theme are you using?

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