Everything was going great until I tried changing the home page address in settings in an attempt to set a static page as the default homepage. Once I did, I was unable to change it back. Now every link in the admin panel is adding "welcome/" into the url, and the header banner is missing as well.

So two questions:

How can I undo this?

How do I properly set a static page to be the default home?

Eventually, I will be moving the entire site out of a subdirectory and into the main directory, replacing the existing site. Here's the current address for the intended home page:

http://financialplanningforum.org/wptest/welcome/

Thank you thank you thank you in advance for your help.

did you make this change at dashboard->settings->general?
If so you are going to have to go edit the row in the database - do you know phpMyAdmin?

Hi, thanks for your response. Yes, I did make the change there. I don't know phpMyAdmin, but I can follow directions!

PS. Any help will be appreciated! I have installed phpMyAdmin. Now what?

Trying to teach you how to use phpMyadmin is not something that should be done via the forums. Are you in the US? What platform are you uing PC/MAC?s

I'm on a Mac.

Perhaps this is unrealistic, I had hoped it would be a straightforward thing to find the wrong path in the code and correct it.

How do you suggest I proceed?

I really appreciate your help, thanks for taking the time.