How to keep “home” page static, create pages with links on home page

  • I am very new and ignorant to this! I have one page up which I want to be my “home” page. Now I want to make numerous pages and show links to these pages in the sidebar. But every time I make a new page, it is taking the place of the home page.
    I apologize is I have not described this clearly. I only got this far (which is not very) by trial, error and chance, but don’t really know what I’m doing ??
    The site is: https://www.losingface.net/

    All help appreciated! Thank you!

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  • You can do this by giving each page a nummer, when you create a page it is displayed in a sidebar beneath the publish bar.. it is called atributes..
    #In wordpress 2.7
    You have to give al the pages a nummer..
    home=1
    about us=2
    product=3

    and continue ??
    post here if you have trouble..

    Thread Starter luciacovelli

    (@luciacovelli)

    Thank you for responding. I think I did something wrong, because I tried numbering a few “test” pages, and am still flummoxed :(. I think my using a “fancy” theme has also muddied the waters. https://losingface.net

    I also think I messed up something when I uploaded this widget called page_mash, which I thought would solve my problem. But I am so inexperienced that I am obviously making all sorts of errors. After installing this to the sidebar of the these I am using, another feature (which showed random images) just disappeared. I deleted the files for this widget, but things have not reverted back to where they were before.

    I am in way over my head ?? I have had a site up on MSN Groups for several years which is listed in Open Directory DMOZ. MSN Groups is closing next month and I have been scrambling to find a suitable replacement for all the material on https://groups.msn.com/LosingFace/

    This site has lots of followers and has spared many people from suffering the serious injury to their health by reading about my experience before having cosmetic surgery. I transferred all the info over to Multiply.com, but that site is not for me. I needed a website and domain of my own that people could find in the search engines. I had very good luck in that regard with the MSN Groups site.

    So I signed up with BlueHost and thought I would be able to use WP to create a site similar to my old https://groups.msn.com/LosingFace/ . I have a free blog on WP, but that is simple.

    I just don’t know HOW to use WP as I am totally ignorant about code. I would gladly pay someone to do this for me or to tutor me through creating this site, but I live on a poverty income. My health is so poor that I cannot handle entire days behind this computer, as I have done, for it ti be all wasted time and energy because I do not know what I am doing. In a very real sense, I am afraid I will die soon and a decade’s worth of the most accurately documented botched cosmetic surgery will be lost. I live alone, and am so severely disabled at this point that I cannot even speak on the phone.. I simply do not have the BREATH to speak

    I know this post doesn’t belong here, but I am desperately seeking help to get this website up so my information will still be out there when people look for it. I can copy all the pages from the old site to the new one, but I do not know how to create a hierarchy, and where these files should be stored in the C-Panel file manager. There are hundreds of clinical photos and videos documenting my case as well.. 10 years worth of meticulous photo documentation of physical changes . Why is it so hard to create a website when it is so easy to do it on these free servers?

    Please forgive my digression into hopelessness. and thank you for your help. I am sorry to have violated the proper usage of this forum. Desperation makes people do desperate things.

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