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  • Do you only want the menu button to go to your most recent post, or do you want it to go to your whole blog?

    If you want it to go to your whole blog:

    • Go to Appearance –> Menus
    • Find your blog page in your list of pages, select the checkmark next to it, and hit “Add to Menu”
    • Rearrange in your navigation as necessary

    Looks like it’s in a text widget. To remove it, go to your dashboard, then to Appearance –> Widgets, locate it in your sidebar (which is displayed on the right side of the widgets page), expand it using the arrow icon, and click on the “delete” button. However, if you wanted to save it, you could just drag it out of your sidebar area to keep it for later use.

    Are you using a pre-made theme or a custom theme? Would you be okay with the post displaying in a sidebar (if you have one on your homepage), or do you want it embedded into the page content itself? There are a few ways you can go about displaying your most recent post.

    You can easily turn off commenting on pages by going to the Pages screen from your admin menu, where it lists all of the pages you’ve created on your site.

    Next, select the checkbox in the top left corner of your list of pages, which should highlight every page you’ve created. From there, click on the “Bulk Actions” dropdown, select “Edit,” and then hit “apply.” You should now see something like this: http://cl.ly/image/2A393B3I422y

    In the list of options on the right side of the bulk edit screen, you will see “Comments.” Click on that dropdown and select “Do not allow.”

    Finally, click the “update” button and you should be all set.

    (Note: If you have too many pages, you’ll have to do this once per screen of pages you have.)

    You can also manually turn off commenting on specific pages by going to hovering over the page you want to edit, clicking “quick edit,” and unchecking “allow comments.”

    I’d avoid removing or adding any code to your theme, especially as there is a way through the admin interface to turn off commenting on pages. If you edit your theme code and then update it, the update will overwrite any changes you made to the code.

    You’re welcome & good luck moving forward!

    Sorry — I meant that some themes come with specific options for that theme, like customizing uploading your own logo or header image.

    Since it’s an image someone else created, it might be best to contact them and see if that have the original file used to create your header image. You might be able to edit that jpg in something like Photoshop to try and put in a new tagline, but unless you’re really good at image editing it’s not going to come out looking like it currently does.

    Is this the text you’re looking to change? Right now, that whole banner is an image. Was it something you created, or something someone else created for you? If it’s something you created, you’ll need to edit your original file to change the text, then reupload the header.jpg image. You might have a theme option available that lets you change that image — I’m not familiar with Skywave. If not, you’ll need to manually upload it to your site and replace the current header.jpg image that’s already there.

    Can you link us to your site? What does that text currently say? If it’s your site title and tagline, you can find that by going to your dashboard and navigating to settings –> general.

    Cassihi’s advice is good. I wouldn’t use CSS to hide it, because your page will still be loading the sidebar and all of its widgets. There’s no need to load your sidebar if you don’t intend on displaying it.

    Thread Starter meliko

    (@meliko)

    Got this figured out at WordCamp Boston — my original widgets were named 1 and 2, and mine were given names. When I made all of my widgets numbered instead, they worked correctly.

    Thread Starter meliko

    (@meliko)

    Just discovered: it *can’t* be named home, because then it will default to home instead of index. Renamed homepage and it’s mostly working fine now.

    Thread Starter meliko

    (@meliko)

    Thanks, got that set now…except my blog is somehow pulling from my home.php template now, instead of my index.php? It’s set to pull from my default template.

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