Posted 2 years ago #
I'm trying to setup a static frontpage. I went to settings > reading > and set it up there as per the instruction below:
http://codex.wordpress.org/Creating_a_Static_Front_Page
It's working on many of my themes, but not on the one I want to use. I've looked in index.php but can't figure it out.
What is missing from that theme that prevents it from working?
Does the theme have a home.php file?
Posted 2 years ago #
No, only index.php. The theme is DerekJ
Your site url?
Posted 2 years ago #
Posted 2 years ago #
This is the homepage that should appear as the front page
http://gator409.hostgator.com/~e2f/home/
You have an error in the template you're using for http://gator409.hostgator.com/~e2f/home/
Look at the title in the browser window. It's displaying </php,
Posted 2 years ago #
Fixed, but the problem persists
Posted 2 years ago #
Any other suggestions?
Posted 2 years ago #
Check your header.php or your index.php for this:
http://gator409.hostgator.com/~e2f Should be the first one in the div id cat-menu and change it accordingly to http://gator409.hostgator.com/~e2f/home
Posted 2 years ago #
This is the code under cat-menu:
<div id="cat-menu" class="menu">
<ul>
<?php wp_list_pages('sort_column=menu_order&depth=1&title_li=');?>
</ul>
</div>
Posted 2 years ago #
No, I am losing you now. I see a double menu now. Better ask the theme author. The theme is not completely trouble free: http://topwpthemes.com/derekj/
Posted 2 years ago #
No worries about the menu. My main concern is "why does the front page work on other themes and not this one?"
I'm assuming the piece of code I'm looking for is in header.php or index.php but I'm really at a loss.
The theme's author won't respond.
Posted 2 years ago #
Look in header.php at the end of the file. Originally your theme supports a page navigation in the top black bar and category navigation in the lower blackbar, where you have your page navigation now.
Original (last lines):
</div><!-- /header-content -->
<div id="cat-menu" class="menu">
<ul>
<?php wp_list_categories('sort_column=name&title_li=&depth=1'); ?>
</ul>
</div>
</div><!-- /header -->
<div id="container">
<div id="content">Now please post your last lines here, the ones with menu2 in it.
Posted 2 years ago #
Thanks for helping me with this, I really appreciate it! Correct, I moved the top navigation to the bottom. Please keep in mind that this wasn't working with the orignal setup either (pages nav at the top).
This is the code when I moved it to the bottom:
<div id="cat-menu" class="menu">
<ul>
<?php wp_list_pages('sort_column=menu_order&depth=1&title_li=');?>
</ul>
</div>Since then, I've replaced it with
<?php wp_css_dropdownmenu(0, '<div class="menu2"><ul>', '</ul></div>'); ?>Which is simply a plugin for a drop down menu instead of a top level menu.
None of the three variations (orignal, pages on bottom nav, new dropdown menu) have worked.
Posted 2 years ago #
I've found the problem. It was bad coding in template-options.php and the php tag wasn't closed in functions.php
Posted 2 years ago #
Thumbs up.
Posted 2 years ago #
can you share what you did exactly? i'm having the same problem right now but don't really get what should be changed in the respective files
Posted 1 year ago #
Can you please share the changes in functions.php and template-options.php
that fix the static page issue with Derekj?
Thanks in advance
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