Landing page is not my WP static page.

  • FYI, I’m brand new to WordPress and have my WP for Dummies book sitting here in front of me. I’m a computer tech but when it comes to this stuff, I have no experience.

    My problem is that I have a basic one page site that a buddy created for me. I want to replace it with a static page I create in WordPress. However when I go to Settings> Reading and change the “Front Page Displays” setting to static page, my landing page doesn’t change. What am I missing here? I want to completely get rid of my original landing page and replace it with a WP static page I have created.

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  • Hi,

    Changing the ‘Front page displays’ setting is the right start

    did you select the page you want as a front page ?
    did you save your changes ?

    There are plenty of screencams on youtube about that (search ‘wordpress static home page’)

    Good luck

    Thread Starter aquaflamz

    (@aquaflamz)

    Yep. I did select the page and saved the changes. When I go to my site https://www.cmscomputerconsulting.com, it goes to my old site still. I dont get it. Its kinda frustrating! Any help other suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

    Thanks!

    Thread Starter aquaflamz

    (@aquaflamz)

    Actually I think I have the “problem” nailed down. For some reason both my browsers IE and FireFox were loading the cached version of the site. All I had to do was “refresh” the page and I get my static home page. I don’t know why the browsers would load the cached version when the site is different and should be updated next time I visit it. Kinda weird…..

    Hello,

    The caching was not only from your browser because I was able to see the problem. I also had to refresh my browser to see your new page.

    However, if I use different browsers I can only see your new page.

    I think that the old page was cached somewhere else and we now have reached the expiration time of the cache …

    It may occur again, keep that in mind when you modify the page

    I’d be curious to know the reason if anybody thinks of a good one

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