Installed new theme – now problems with site.

  • I’m currently working on designing a new site. Until the site is finished and ready to go online, I designed a “coming soon” page that visitors to the URL would see (named home.php).

    I was able to access the wp admin by adding to the main URL “/wp-admin.” I would then enter my user name and password and everything was working well, i.e. I was able to design the new site in WP without visitors to the site seeing the work in progress.

    Yesterday, I downloaded a new theme (Business Corp) from newwpthemes.com. I activated it and can no longer see the “coming soon” page. After a while, I started getting 404 errors when trying to access the main URL.

    I’m new to WP, so my knowledge is still limited.

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  • First, avoid sites like newwpthemes.com.

    Second, if you activate a new Theme, it is to be expected that whatever Theme you were previously using would no longer be active – thus, it is to be expected that your “Coming Soon” page would no longer be displayed.

    Thread Starter tvellidis

    (@tvellidis)

    Normally, that would be the case, but I had moved the “coming soon” page (home.php) into the root folder of that theme. With other themes, that’s all I had to do and everything was working fine.

    Can you explain what files WordPress uses to compile the first page?

    WordPress uses the “index.php” file in the WordPress root directory. It builds everything from this file.

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