Mystified by the Home Page

  • Using Aaron 2.3 and WordPress 4.4.1. My home page at https://www.christianboyce.com has no posts on it, and that is good. I have a background image, a call to action, and several front page highlights. All of that is just as I want it.

    I can’t figure out how to add Share buttons to the Home page. That’s my first problem. If I go to the Home page, and then “Edit Page” across the top, I see the page and there is a checkbox to “Show Sharing Buttons” and it is checked. But I don’t see any sharing buttons on the Home page.

    The other thing I can’t figure out about the Home page is, it seems to not matter at all what I write in the body of it. That is too bad as I would like to have some content for search engines to find. No matter what I type, nothing shows up.

    My Home page is one with no blog posts on it. It is just a “front” page with buttons and menus. It would be great to understand how this works, especially the part about the Sharing buttons.

    I can’t make my SumoMe sharing buttons show up on the Home page either– maybe there is something about my Home page that just doesn’t accept these sorts of things.

    Anyway, as usual, I need help.

    c

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  • Thread Starter christianboyce

    (@christianboyce)

    I discovered that my choice of a “Landing Page” template for my Home page is a factor here. I tried the other templates and they do show the sharing buttons and also the text I’ve written in the edit mode. It shows it below the background image with the heading “HOME” across that second section. What I would like to do is include the text, but not the HOME heading. Also would want the sharing buttons to be on the top half of the home page, on the background image (not below it). Is this possible? Did I choose the wrong template for the Home page? “Landing Page” makes the page look really good but I still want the Sharing buttons.

    Theme Author Carolina Nymark

    (@poena)

    Hi
    It is not possible, the sharing buttons are not part of the theme, perhaps they were added with jetpack?

    The theme is designed to show a sort of title even if the post title is empty, for accessibility. So I don’t recommend hiding it.

    Thread Starter christianboyce

    (@christianboyce)

    I think Jetpack is doing the sharing buttons. I just wonder why they don’t show on my Home page. I thought it might be an interaction between Aaron and Jetpack but it looks like it’s Jetpack by itself.

    Where can I find information about the changes in 2.4? When I update the theme from within WordPress there is no description other than the version number.

    Thank you!!!

    Theme Author Carolina Nymark

    (@poena)

    2.4 only had minor changes but they are in the readme file.

    You can add this code wherever you want the share to show (content-page.php)
    `if ( function_exists( ‘sharing_display’ ) ) {
    echo sharing_display();
    }
    `

    (within php tags)

    Theme Author Carolina Nymark

    (@poena)

    I’m sorry I keep giving you the 3:am and then the slightly more awake 6:am answers ??
    I have added the code for the share on the pages in version 2.5 that is awaiting review.

    But I believe I already have your e-mail adress, time permitting we can work on getting your site exactly the way you want it.

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