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nicoleatlahhh
(@nicoleatlahhh)

6 years, 9 months ago

Greetings! We have been having issues get a static home page to show up. No matter what we change in WordPress, it seems to have the same non-editable home page.

We tried downloading a different theme, in hopes it would let us build a static front page. We downloaded Divi and have done the following:
– Under Settings, then Reading, we selected the “A static page” radio button and then selected the home page we had created for “Front page”…this did not update the home page
– We also tried disabling all of the plugins, which did not make a difference
– Under Appearance, Customize, we have the “Static Front Page” set to a static page with the home page selected
– We also tried using the “Redirection” plug-in to redirect from “atlhhh.org/” to “atlhhh.org/home-page” (a second test home page we created) and that would not reroute the home page

Does anyone have any thoughts on how we might fix this? I’m by far proficient in coding, so I’m hesitant to go into the theme’s code to change anything. Thank you in advance for any help! The website is atlhhh.org

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Tony Sanjaya
(@riderm4n)

6 years, 9 months ago

Hi nicoleatlahhh,

have you tried Settings/Reading and change the setting of the Front page Displays?

http://d.pr/i/0SKQ6

Thread Starter nicoleatlahhh
(@nicoleatlahhh)

6 years, 9 months ago

Hi Tony – Yes, I have. It’s the first thing I listed under things we’ve tried.
Fabio Fiss
(@fabiofiss)

6 years, 9 months ago
Hey nicoleatlahhh,

Check if your theme has a specific template page for home page.

To do so, on the WordPress admin panel, open the page you want to have your front page and in the right sidebar look for Page Atributes. In the template dropdown, see if there is an option for Home page.

Here’s an screenshot to guide you:
http://cdn3.wpbeginner.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/selecttemplate.png
- This reply was modified 6 years, 9 months ago by Fabio Fiss.
Thread Starter nicoleatlahhh
(@nicoleatlahhh)

6 years, 9 months ago

Hi Fabio Fiss – It does not have a home page in the theme that I am aware of. The only options under Page Attributes, Template are “Default Template” and “Blank Page.”

ThemesGrove
(@themesgrove)

6 years, 9 months ago

Hello,
What does your home page show ?
Which page you see as your home page ?
Do you have any static-front-page.php file in your theme directory ?
Please let me know about the above topic.
thanks.

Thread Starter nicoleatlahhh
(@nicoleatlahhh)

6 years, 9 months ago

Hi ThemesGrove,

The home page currently shows the logo, a navigation bar, our mission, a video, 4 buttons, and some news. I’ve tried changing the news to see if it’s flowing through a widget or similar to a blog cover page, but that has no effect.

We currently don’t see any page as our homepage as that page is not a page we created or have saved in our pages. When I looked at the source code behind that page, it looks like it’s tied to a Genesis theme, but that theme is not active. This website was created some time ago, so we don’t have access to the person who originally set it up so I’m kind of guessing on some items.

As far as the static-front-page.php file, we do not have that specific php in under templates.

We have this tid-bit under functions.php:
$removed_default_sections = array( ‘nav’, ‘static_front_page’, ‘custom_css’ );
foreach ( $removed_default_sections as $default_section ) {
$wp_customize->remove_section( $default_section );
}

Let me know if that helps or if there’s something additional I can look at. Thank you!

ThemesGrove
(@themesgrove)

6 years, 9 months ago

Try to comment your code what you mention in the previous post and try if it will work.
Let me know about the result.
Thanks.

Thread Starter nicoleatlahhh
(@nicoleatlahhh)

6 years, 9 months ago

Hi ThemesGrove,

I’m sorry – I don’t understand what you’re asking me to do. What do you mean try to comment the code?