Home page missing in Pages list?

  • achaninusa

    (@achaninusa)


    5 years ago

    Can’t give you a link as I am re-installing WordPress.

    On a fresh install, I see “Home” on the Pages list configured as a blog page and loaded with the old posts inherited from the old database. After adding another Blog page, “Home” disappeared from the list and can only be seen as a landing page of my site.

    Now I need to reconfigure “Home” as a static page, like a splash or landing page, but I can’t do that if I can’t get to it. Googling turned up nothing.

    How to I get the original “Home” to appear so I can configure it as a static page? Do I need to reinstall WordPress again and reload the data?

    ADDENDUM:
    OK, googled this. Home apparently conflicted with a mySQL command, it is a “virtual page” and doesn’t really exist and I need to change the name in index.php and a whole lot of other stuff. BUT it is still the landing page and loads the posts from the db. Let’s see whether I can hack WordPress some more…

    ADDENDUM 11:19AM:
    OK, I don’t know whether this is the right way to do it, but I stumbled onto it:
    1. create a new page and set it as blog
    2. create a new page or use “Sample Page”, set it up as static
    3. rename “Sample Page” to “Home”
    Seems to work.

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  • Moderator bcworkz

    (@bcworkz)

    5 years ago

    Creating new pages is fine. In particular if you are able to get the content you need onto the new home page.

    Some site devs do weird things for the home page, like altering the index.php template. Thus there’s no “home” page listed in the backend. Not the right way to do a home page, but I’ve seen many weird things done, especially on older sites.

    Thread Starter achaninusa

    (@achaninusa)

    5 years ago

    OK, I am really freaking out on Twenty-Eleven content-alignment and sidebar.

    I have created a new database and reloaded WordPress, then installed Twenty-Eleven. No plugins sofar. But the content alignment is on center of page rather than left-aligned. It installs like that, I haven’t changed any codes yet and I think the WordPress idea is to recode the style.css ourselves.

    Also, even after fresh install, 20-11 only shows Main Sidebar and Showcase. No options to create a custom sidebar.

    QUESTION: How do I get the 20-11 content to left-align?

    See Link:
    http://www.iamsoftpower.com/OceanConservation_wp/

    • This reply was modified 5 years ago by achaninusa.
    Moderator bcworkz

    (@bcworkz)

    5 years ago

    There are starter themes where you’re expected to create your own CSS. Twentyeleven isn’t one of them. The centered content area is intentional. It’s desirable to limit text line width for easier reading. Some people run very large windows, resulting in very long lines unless the content width is limited to some maximum. Some feel that a width limited content area looks weird unless it’s centered. Different ideas on layout is in part why there are several thousand themes in the WP repository and yet we find the need to customize 🙂

    Add to Additional CSS customizer section:

    body {
    padding: 0;
}
#page {
    margin: 2em 0;
    max-width: initial;
}

    I recommend learning to use your browser’s element inspector tool. It’ll tell you what CSS is applied to what elements and you can edit CSS right in the tool to see what effect any change has on the page. Changes there do not persist, reloading the page restores everything to the way it was.

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