static page duplicates as home page

Did you create a Page for your Posts and assign it when you selected your static front page?

Reference: https://faq.wordpress.com/2007/02/20/having-a-static-page-at-the-front-of-the-blog/

You can hide the static front page from your Page menu by assigning it as a subpage under another one of your pages.

That wordpress.COM solution is the best for wp.com users since they can NOT modify the theme files.

If you have your own hosted WP blog the duplicate homepage-syndrome is caused in 99% of the cases by the hard coded home link in the theme file(s). Just delete the hard coded “home” link.
Done.

Just delete the hard coded “home” link.

A fair number of themes have that hard coded for a reason though. Especially if they change the color of the background if it’s a selected Page. Or for other reasons. That why I didn’t suggest just deleteing it.

Many thanks champs,

I have done it now but not sure how. I deleted some “home” code ( i’m a newbie remember) in the header file and that got rid of the duplication. Good. Then I reactivated the semilogic static page plugin and it works, BUT, and i am not sure if this is linked, I know have http// in front of my blog title.Any suggestions on that?

Thanks again

Dane

In WP 2.3.+ you don’t need any plugin for a static homepage!
Just read the Options > Reading section of your own admin panel.

It might help if this question were answered more clearly in the documentation.

I’m also having difficulty figuring out how to get rid of a duplicate home page:
Home | About | Home | Events | News

I’ve already read the documentation and tried working with the admin panel. Will try again. ??

Reference: https://faq.wordpress.com/2007/02/20/having-a-static-page-at-the-front-of-the-blog/
and
Options > Reading section

The above link was helpful. Thanks, theapparatus.

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https://faq.wordpress.com/2007/02/20/having-a-static-page-at-the-front-of-the-blog/
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