Follow these steps:

• Navigate to the editor for any given page.
• Click on the Screen Options tab in the upper right of the page.
• Make sure the box next to Discussion is checked in this tab.
• Next, scroll down to the bottom of the page to find the Discussion module.
• Uncheck the option to “Allow comments.” in the Discussion module and save the changes to the page.

1 – find image id
To get your image ID# go to your Media Library. Then find the image you want. Just roll over it. You will see in your status bar (at the bottom of your browser) the ID# appears. Make sure you have Show Status Bar enabled on your browser. (if that’s an option for you).
2 – add gallery exclude=’xx’ to gallery html
(the gallery html is really a point to a style sheet – i just added the gallery exclude clause:
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How to Exclude Specific Images:
If you want to include all images attached to a post, with the exception of a select few, you can use “exclude=” in the shortcode, followed by comma separated attachment IDs:

How to Include Specific Images:
If you want to include only a few specific images, then you will want to use the “include=” option in the gallery shortcode, followed by comma separated attachment IDs:

2. by default, wordpress puts posts on the front page
   http://codex.wordpress.org/Writing_Posts

   not pages
   http://codex.wordpress.org/Pages

   since you deleted the default “Hello World” post, you see what you have now

   you can make a post and then it will be added to front page

   or

   you can create a page and assign that to be your static home page
   dashboard – settings – reading

   you will need to then create an empty page titled “Blog” (or whatever you want) – save it – then assign that as your posts page
   dashboard – settings – reading

3. ‘Home’ is just a tab to go back to whatever page is set as your front page.

   By default, it’s your posts page, your new posts will go to that page

   If you want to change the page to a static one rather than your posts, make the page and set it as static in settings->reading