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		<title>By: Chad</title>
		<link>http://welcometowp.com/wordpress-how-to/how-to-create-a-static-home-page/comment-page-1/#comment-11785</link>
		<dc:creator>Chad</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Oct 2011 21:03:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>@Jane

If I had to guess, since you can&#039;t find that URL in your header anywhere, the link is just being populated by a function or template tag. It must be pulling the &quot;Home&quot; address from your blog settings.

If you look under the &quot;General&quot; settings for your blog, does your &quot;Site URL&quot; still display the old &quot;test&quot; address? If so, take a look at this WordPress.org page: http://codex.wordpress.org/Moving_WordPress  If might help, depending on what steps you took when moving your site initially.

Moving WordPress can be tricky, so make sure you&#039;ve read the instructions completely before proceeding, and make sure you have everything thoroughly backed up!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>@Jane</p>
<p>If I had to guess, since you can&#8217;t find that URL in your header anywhere, the link is just being populated by a function or template tag. It must be pulling the &#8220;Home&#8221; address from your blog settings.</p>
<p>If you look under the &#8220;General&#8221; settings for your blog, does your &#8220;Site URL&#8221; still display the old &#8220;test&#8221; address? If so, take a look at this WordPress.org page: <a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/Moving_WordPress" rel="nofollow">http://codex.wordpress.org/Moving_WordPress</a>  If might help, depending on what steps you took when moving your site initially.</p>
<p>Moving WordPress can be tricky, so make sure you&#8217;ve read the instructions completely before proceeding, and make sure you have everything thoroughly backed up!</p>
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		<title>By: Jane</title>
		<link>http://welcometowp.com/wordpress-how-to/how-to-create-a-static-home-page/comment-page-1/#comment-11719</link>
		<dc:creator>Jane</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Oct 2011 18:05:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Chad, this is helpful, thanks. I wonder if you can solve an associated problem?
I moved my blog after testing it (I had a long term site running and the blog replaces that). I have now *almost* moved the new blog but I have a problem the HOME link still has the &#039;old&#039; test url:
http://www.janeprophet.com/blog

rather than the new URL
http://www.janeprophet.com

I cannot find the url in the header.php, or anywhere else! Can you give me any advice as to how I might edit it?

Thanks

Jane</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Chad, this is helpful, thanks. I wonder if you can solve an associated problem?<br />
I moved my blog after testing it (I had a long term site running and the blog replaces that). I have now *almost* moved the new blog but I have a problem the HOME link still has the &#8216;old&#8217; test url:<br />
<a href="http://www.janeprophet.com/blog" rel="nofollow">http://www.janeprophet.com/blog</a></p>
<p>rather than the new URL<br />
<a href="http://www.janeprophet.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.janeprophet.com</a></p>
<p>I cannot find the url in the header.php, or anywhere else! Can you give me any advice as to how I might edit it?</p>
<p>Thanks</p>
<p>Jane</p>
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		<title>By: Chad</title>
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		<dc:creator>Chad</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Aug 2011 17:19:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>@Rosa Chaves

Hi again Rosa! :)

Sounds like you&#039;re saying that when you hover over the name of the currently open page in your nav menu, it shifts to the right so it&#039;s almost touching the next page&#039;s name.

If that&#039;s the case, there&#039;s probably something messed up in the CSS. I looked at the demo link you sent, and this is what the CSS for the nav links looks like:

&lt;code&gt;#cats li a {
    float: left;
    line-height: 50px;
    text-decoration: none !important;
}&lt;/code&gt;

Based on what you&#039;re describing, there&#039;s probably a

&lt;code&gt;#cats li a:hover&lt;/code&gt;

entry somewhere that&#039;s changing the alignment.

Hard to say more specifically without looking at your actual site to check things out. Feel free to post a URL if you want!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>@Rosa Chaves</p>
<p>Hi again Rosa! <img src='http://welcometowp.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p>Sounds like you&#8217;re saying that when you hover over the name of the currently open page in your nav menu, it shifts to the right so it&#8217;s almost touching the next page&#8217;s name.</p>
<p>If that&#8217;s the case, there&#8217;s probably something messed up in the CSS. I looked at the demo link you sent, and this is what the CSS for the nav links looks like:</p>
<p><code>#cats li a {
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;float: left;
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;line-height: 50px;
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;text-decoration: none !important;
}</code></p>
<p>Based on what you&#8217;re describing, there&#8217;s probably a</p>
<p><code>#cats li a:hover</code></p>
<p>entry somewhere that&#8217;s changing the alignment.</p>
<p>Hard to say more specifically without looking at your actual site to check things out. Feel free to post a URL if you want!</p>
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		<title>By: Chad</title>
		<link>http://welcometowp.com/wordpress-how-to/how-to-create-a-static-home-page/comment-page-1/#comment-9164</link>
		<dc:creator>Chad</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Aug 2011 17:09:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>@Rosa Chaves

It&#039;s hard to say what might be causing your theme editor to fail when saving. Are you running the newest version of WordPress? If not, try upgrading.

If you have already upgraded, try disabling plugins. Perhaps one (or a combination) of them are getting in the way?

Let me know if you have any luck!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>@Rosa Chaves</p>
<p>It&#8217;s hard to say what might be causing your theme editor to fail when saving. Are you running the newest version of WordPress? If not, try upgrading.</p>
<p>If you have already upgraded, try disabling plugins. Perhaps one (or a combination) of them are getting in the way?</p>
<p>Let me know if you have any luck!</p>
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		<title>By: Rosa Chaves</title>
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		<dc:creator>Rosa Chaves</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Aug 2011 17:58:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Another question, nothing to do with the theme: 

the template I chose (IMBALANCE) does not have the behavior I am checking on mine and I don&#039;t like it: when you move your mouse over the menu page that is open to align it moves to the beginning the next menu (not sure if I was clear) .. can you explain why? and how can I undo this &quot;movement&quot; by keeping the alignments on the left? 

Thanks</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Another question, nothing to do with the theme: </p>
<p>the template I chose (IMBALANCE) does not have the behavior I am checking on mine and I don&#8217;t like it: when you move your mouse over the menu page that is open to align it moves to the beginning the next menu (not sure if I was clear) .. can you explain why? and how can I undo this &#8220;movement&#8221; by keeping the alignments on the left? </p>
<p>Thanks</p>
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		<title>By: Rosa Chaves</title>
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		<dc:creator>Rosa Chaves</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Aug 2011 17:50:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>the explanation is excellent it helped me a lot, I&#039;m following the second method because I&#039;m not familiar with FTP. 

My problem: After changing the code can not save it; wen I do upload it cames back to the initial code .. what am I doing wrong?! My basic template is the Imbalance - http://wpshower.com/demo/?theme=imbalance</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>the explanation is excellent it helped me a lot, I&#8217;m following the second method because I&#8217;m not familiar with FTP. </p>
<p>My problem: After changing the code can not save it; wen I do upload it cames back to the initial code .. what am I doing wrong?! My basic template is the Imbalance &#8211; <a href="http://wpshower.com/demo/?theme=imbalance" rel="nofollow">http://wpshower.com/demo/?theme=imbalance</a></p>
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		<title>By: Chad</title>
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		<dc:creator>Chad</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Aug 2011 22:06:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>@melissa

It sounds like you are dealing with a theme that didn&#039;t have a &quot;Home&quot; button built in. If that&#039;s the case, you&#039;ll want to skip the step where we excluded your new homepage from the navbar - since your theme doesn&#039;t already have one, you want the page you just created to be listed there.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>@melissa</p>
<p>It sounds like you are dealing with a theme that didn&#8217;t have a &#8220;Home&#8221; button built in. If that&#8217;s the case, you&#8217;ll want to skip the step where we excluded your new homepage from the navbar &#8211; since your theme doesn&#8217;t already have one, you want the page you just created to be listed there.</p>
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		<title>By: melissa</title>
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		<dc:creator>melissa</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jul 2011 22:28:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Chad, i set up my static home page and now i have my blog page set up as well. only problem is when i am in the blog page there is no link back to the home page. so i would have to &quot;search&quot; in the search box for the word &quot;home&quot; to get there. please help.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Chad, i set up my static home page and now i have my blog page set up as well. only problem is when i am in the blog page there is no link back to the home page. so i would have to &#8220;search&#8221; in the search box for the word &#8220;home&#8221; to get there. please help.</p>
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		<title>By: Chad</title>
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		<dc:creator>Chad</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Aug 2010 16:21:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>@Greg

I can definitely see how that would be frustrating... I wouldn&#039;t to loose my carefully selected title tags either! :)

Generally, the content of your title tag is actually going to be controlled by the theme you are using, and not necessarily WP itself. It sounds like whatever page you are selecting as your &quot;home&quot; page is using a template that doesn&#039;t supply a title tag for your browser to use - which is why you&#039;re seeing your URL instead.

I&#039;d recommend double checking your theme&#039;s &lt;code&gt;home.php&lt;/code&gt; (if it has one) and &lt;code&gt;index.php&lt;/code&gt; templates to make sure the  tags are filled in with the information you want.

Feel free to post your URL and theme info if you&#039;re still working on fixing this :)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>@Greg</p>
<p>I can definitely see how that would be frustrating&#8230; I wouldn&#8217;t to loose my carefully selected title tags either! <img src='http://welcometowp.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p>Generally, the content of your title tag is actually going to be controlled by the theme you are using, and not necessarily WP itself. It sounds like whatever page you are selecting as your &#8220;home&#8221; page is using a template that doesn&#8217;t supply a title tag for your browser to use &#8211; which is why you&#8217;re seeing your URL instead.</p>
<p>I&#8217;d recommend double checking your theme&#8217;s <code>home.php</code> (if it has one) and <code>index.php</code> templates to make sure the  tags are filled in with the information you want.</p>
<p>Feel free to post your URL and theme info if you&#8217;re still working on fixing this <img src='http://welcometowp.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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		<title>By: Greg</title>
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		<dc:creator>Greg</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jul 2010 23:00:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I know I&#039;m a bit late to the party on this post, but what about the fact that if you use a static page for your homepage, that static page loses its title tag?

Whenever I use a static page as the homepage, the title tag simply shows the URL of the site, which isn&#039;t very professional considering that&#039;s the first page people are going to see (depending on the type of site you&#039;re running, of course).

Although I can see some recognition benefits if people bookmark that particular page, I still wish WP would fix this.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I know I&#8217;m a bit late to the party on this post, but what about the fact that if you use a static page for your homepage, that static page loses its title tag?</p>
<p>Whenever I use a static page as the homepage, the title tag simply shows the URL of the site, which isn&#8217;t very professional considering that&#8217;s the first page people are going to see (depending on the type of site you&#8217;re running, of course).</p>
<p>Although I can see some recognition benefits if people bookmark that particular page, I still wish WP would fix this.</p>
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