Front Page Template?

Theatreadmin
(@theatreadmin)

11 years, 5 months ago

Hello! I am a newbie when it comes to making websites, so I have been trying different themes out. Although when I tried this one I couldn’t figure out how to use the “Front Page Template”. I got this message when trying to put widgets in the first front page & second front page areas: “Appears when using the optional Front Page template with a page set as Static Front Page”.

How do I use the Front Page template?!

Thank You! 😀

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mattmagi
(@mattmagi)

11 years, 5 months ago

Hey,

What you have to do is first create your front page. Lets say you create a new page called “Home”. Then go into your Settings > Reading and set “front page” to “Home” and then you will have a static front page where you can use these widgets. In reading I also suggest to select the page you wish to use for blog.

Thread Starter Theatreadmin
(@theatreadmin)

11 years, 5 months ago

Okay, I finally did it! Thanks for your help! 🙂

2f2f
(@2f2f)

11 years ago

I have the same issue on this site:

http://www.graficooro.it/

I followed the instructions, added a text widget with 2 links in the “First Front Page Widget Area”, set the page as static, used the Frontpage Template for that page…but I can’t see the widget yet 🙁

Can anyone help me?

Thanks

Michael
(@alchymyth)

11 years ago

@2f2f

your iframe code in the page has a broken closing tag (the > is missing);
from the html in the browser:

<p><code><iframe src="http://...whatever..." height="400" width="99%" frameborder="0" scrolling="no"></iframe<code></p>
2f2f
(@2f2f)

11 years ago
@ alchymyth

Thank you but the Gold chart still loads perfectly.

Do you think that closing tag may stop WordPress from displaying the widget?

Actually all I added between < code > and < code > was:
```
<iframe src="http://widgets.prorealtime.com/ProRealTime_FlashXLight/itcharts.phtml?wid=2013442385&k=604974e7cc4b35d64a3997b2667a91b0" height="400" width="99%" frameborder="0" scrolling="no"></iframe

without opening and closing tags.
Thanks
```
Michael
(@alchymyth)

11 years ago

this is the closing tag – and it is missing the >

</iframe

should be:

</iframe>

2f2f
(@2f2f)

11 years ago

OK, that works but then I had to change the opening one too 🙂

Thanks!