My website is currently private, as I am still working on it and will contain a login for various different users to access different areas of the WordPress.
This has not interfered in anything, but I am mentioning it incase anyone needs to actively view my WordPress at some point to see what is going on.
Currently:
I have a Static Homepage called ‘Home’ which is a page, which is the front page, and will contain different links for people to click on – employer, employee, subscriber etc. So currently ‘Home’ is not the main posts page.
I have a Static Posts page called ‘Posts’ which is a page, but which is not the front page, and will contain the main posts of my WordPress.
Plugins
Theme
The theme that I am using is Opulence by Pipdig https://www.pipdig.co/shop/wordpress-theme-opulence/
Features
As you can see on the featured theme above, there is an option for a featured slider. There are also additional options (not currently featured on that demo above) for Featured Categories, Featured Images etc.
On Customiser by default, the theme has it’s own options to feature these – but the widgets will only appear on the Front Page or Every Page – static page, posts or whatever is the default for the ‘Front Page.’
So I went under the Widgets section instead and tried to feature some other parts of the theme – Random Posts, Popular Posts, other installed plugin features etc.
These display successfully on the Front Page, but when I tick the Conditional Widgets box underneath each widget to ‘Hide on Front Page’ and ‘Show on Posts’ only, nothing appears. I must be doing this wrong, so could you please advise me?
Thanks kindly.
]]>While navigating the settings, I spent 15 minutes trying to find the option to hide specific text on the front page. It didn’t occur to me to look under “Location,” and then “Page Type.” I likely would have encountered the same challenge with the 404 page as well, which is also found there.
It would be wonderful if this could be made more apparent, as I can’t be the only one who has faced this hurdle.
Aside from that, this is truly great work! The quality is exceptional!
]]>My Navigation menu is not showing up on the “Front Page” and it does not seem to matter what I do to the other pages that I have tried to design. They do not show up at all. When I save edits and hit preview it takes me back to the “Front Page”. I have tried assigning that template to a page and it is not shown as an option.
I have been unable to actually build a website because the only thing that seems to exist on the front end is the “Front Page” and nothing I do matters. Sorry, I have spent so many hours on this and I know that it is probably something so simple it is going to blow my mind but I have not found a forum thread that has solved the Saga of an over Zealous Front Page! Not sure if you will be able to use the link as I am using a staging site and have things set to private because I do not want to mess up the one page website that I have in place (also using a Front Page and not affected by other pages or edits that I make to the website).
Someone please tell me what I am missing before I go find a job as a janitor!
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]]>I went to settings -> reading and updated homepage to A STATIC PAGE but it doesn’t work. I see the title of the static page but the front page template still shows. How do I disable front page template?
I have searched for last hour and can’t find anything. I’m worried it just isn’t possible to have a static page. I need a static page for SEO and other functionality that template just doesn’t provide.
Please help:)
Thank you,
John
]]>Currently, I can edit the front page using the “Edit Site” option, and I can see the front page in the “Pages” section on the site editor.
However, I can’t see the front page in the “Pages” section on WordPress.
Therefore, I cannot set the front page and blog pages on the “Reading Settings” page. The front page does not appear in the static page list on the “Reading Settings” page.
When I add a static page named “Blog,” it does not automatically get the blog homepage template.
I have not been able to set the front page to the front-page template and also have a separate blog top page as a /blog page.
Can you specify the steps needed to achieve this?
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