As a WP newbie, I have started to set up a simple blogging web site, following the steps presented to me by WP. However I have hit a problem that, despite a couple of hours of research, appears insoluble (I’m sure that’s not the real case!).
The setup process asked me for a site tagline, which I input but it is not displayed.
But Help is not much help…Help says, in response to my query “Tag line not displayed”:
Check Theme Settings: Some themes might not display the site tagline by default. To ensure it’s enabled, navigate to your WordPress.com dashboard and then to Customize -> Site Identity. Here, you should see an option to input your site tagline. Make sure it’s filled in and save your changes.
DASHBOARD?
I assume the dashboard page is the page with this down the left-hand side …
My home,
Stats,
Upgrades,
My Mailboxes etc…
If this is the WP Dashboard, I would expect the word Dashboard to appear somewhere on it, so maybe this page isn’t the Dashboard?
<u>CUSTOMISE->SITE IDENTITY?</u>
there is no sign of Customize -> Site identity on this page.
Instead, and confusingly, there is this sequence:
Appearance–>Customise–>Site identity,
but I cannot see any option to hide/reveal the tagline.
TAG LINE REQUESTED, SO WHERE IS IT?
WordPress has asked for a tag line, and I have specified some text for a tagline, I would therefore expect WordPress to automatically assume I actually want it displayed? That seems the logical thing to me, not that I don’t want it displayed!
I have done a search in the forums for “tag line not displayed”, and there are 86,000 forum references, so it seems to be a common problem. Some of the solutions entail digging into the code, not something I want to attempt.
Is there a simple solution to this problem?