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You should see the Theme Options panel in the Customizer once you select a static front page in the Static Front Page section. The panel does not appear until you perform that step.

Let me know how it goes.

Thanks for the response.
I am aware of that. But still, even when I try to customize my front home page, I don’s see the Theme Options section and the right hand side panel also disappears.

Here’s a screenshot of the static front page:

And here’s a screenshot of the same page, as soon as I press the “customize” link.

Can you provide a link to your site?

Could you try disabling the Visual Composer plugin temporarily to see if there might be a conflict? Something is definitely interfering with the Customizer preview. If that doesn’t do the trick, try temporarily deactivating all your plugins. If the issues go away, reactivate them one-by-one to find the culrpit.

I will try that.
In the meantime, I upgraded WordPress to 4.7.1 and my top navigation menu that was centered is now to the left. How can I correct that?

Could you provide a link to your site so I can see what’s going on and help you with any CSS you might need?

staging1.theteaemporium.com

This is just for development now.

By the way, I am using my child theme of twenty seventeen.

Fixed it!!! I added:

@media only screen and (min-width: 910px) {
.main-navigation .primary-menu > li {
display: inline-block;
float: none;
}
.main-navigation ul {
text-align: center;
}
}

Now back to your suggestion about plugins. I’ll play with it, although I have been able to live without it so far.

Thansk.

Glad you fixed it. I just want to make sure you’re not editing the theme files directly – can you confirm? If you are editing the theme’s files directly, that would explain why your changes were wiped out when you updated the theme.

Instead, add the code to your child theme’s style.css file. That’ll keep all your changes safe, and you won’t lose them the next time you update Twenty Seventeen.

Regarding the Theme Options panel in the Customizer, I do see Twenty Seventeen’s panels active on your front page. Were you ever able to see Theme Options in the Customizer before, and you just lost them more recently? If so, that definitely moves us more in the direction of a plugin conflict. I see quite a few plugins active on your site so it’s possible something is conflicting with the Customizer.

Yes, yes. I am doing all my changes/modifications in my child and not the twenty seventeen files.

AS for Theme Options, I could never see it, from the time I installed Twenty Seventeen, but I have worked around it. I’ll experiment with my plugins and see what happens.

Many thanks.