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1. mingohills
   Member
   Posted 9 months ago #

   Ok. So I'm running WP 3.2.1 with the Berita Free theme. I am also running Headspace2. Here is the URL. http://eilerslawgroup.com

   Now when I set the the front page to be "Home" under Settings>Reading I lose all my meta data that I have set up. Even worse, SEO analytic tools tell me that I have duplicate content. I have deleted the original Home page and publish anew, I have 2 pages http://eilerslawgroup.com which is the default WP blog home page, and all "Home" links go to the Home page http://eilerslawgroup.com/home/. Home has all the metadata but the wrong content. As soon as I go back set the front page as a static page, I lose the meta data again.

   I am sure it is theme related, but I don't know where to attack this problem. The documentation for the theme is of no help. I am an advanced novice at this stuff. Any suggestions would be helpful. I am happy to give access to any template files. Thanks.

2. Samuel B
   moderator
   Posted 9 months ago #

   well that's not at all how you do it
   follow this
   http://codex.wordpress.org/Creating_a_Static_Front_Page

3. mingohills
   Member
   Posted 9 months ago #

   Maybe I am not explaining it clearly, but that is exactly what I did. The problem is that all the meta tags I set (with Headspace I just enter the title and description under the content editor for the page).

   Just to be clear, here is what I did. I created a new page called "Home" and populated with my home page content. I also created a "Blog" page. Then I went to Settings>Reading and set Home as the static front page and "Blog" as the posts. Everything else was me trying to start the process over.

   I think the theme is overriding the front page meta tags and layout through "hooks". Before I set the front page as Home, the index.php comes up blank (or however I set the hooks in the theme. It has a slider by default). However, the "Home" links go to /home/ with meta tags intact. It is when I select "Home" as the static home page that things go awry. Metadata goes away. I feel like the front page "hook" in the theme is creating a page. I don't know enough to fiddle, but my inclination is to just delete the front page hook.

   Thanks for your help though.

4. mingohills
   Member
   Posted 9 months ago #

   Also, I say hooks, but after exploring the folders a bit, I realize it's not hooks that are the issue. Something in the code is overriding the CSS and metadata for the frontpage and I don't know where to find it.

5. mingohills
   Member
   Posted 9 months ago #

   Ok Samuel. So I went back reread the troubleshooting at the bottom. It seems the problem described is exactly my problem, but I don't know where to begin.

   I think the offending code as as follows.

   [Code moderated as per the Forum Rules. Please use the pastebin]

   Can I just comment that out?

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