Title: Homepage Control problem solved
Last modified: August 30, 2016

---

# Homepage Control problem solved

 *  [TStone](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tstone/)
 * (@tstone)
 * [10 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/homepage-control-problem-solved/)
 * This problem was mentioned in another [post](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/featured-products-on-home-page-1).
 * **How to cause the problem:**
    On install, WooCommerce creates a few pages, among
   them a shop page. If that page is set to be a static front page via the settings,
   then the Storefront custom templates doesn’t get applied, even though it _looks_
   like it is selected in the template select box in the edit screen. Quite difficult
   to catch without any error notices. Hence, Homepage Control doesn’t work, since
   the selected template is, in fact, not selected.
 * **Solution:**
    Don’t set the WooCommerce generated starting page as the static
   front page. Make a new page instead.

Viewing 4 replies - 1 through 4 (of 4 total)

 *  [James Koster](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jameskoster/)
 * (@jameskoster)
 * [10 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/homepage-control-problem-solved/#post-6551900)
 * Glad this is sorted. It would have been better to post this update on the other
   topic instead of creating a new one though 😛
 *  Thread Starter [TStone](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tstone/)
 * (@tstone)
 * [10 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/homepage-control-problem-solved/#post-6551920)
 * Yes, I guess it would have been better to update the other topic. Only… I was
   searching for solutions to the problem, and the title of the other topic doesn’t
   really describe the problem. I happened upon it by chance alone. So I started
   this topic to make it easier to find.
 *  [otisandolive](https://wordpress.org/support/users/otisandolive/)
 * (@otisandolive)
 * [10 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/homepage-control-problem-solved/#post-6552127)
 * I’m using the Storefront theme and I found this fix after experiencing the same
   issue with Homepage Control. I’m still having problems with it, though.
 * I have my new “home” page set as the static page but it is simply blank – it 
   doesn’t contain any of my categories or features products. Any other ideas? I’m
   hoping I’m missing something relatively straightforward. Thanks!
 *  [James Koster](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jameskoster/)
 * (@jameskoster)
 * [10 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/homepage-control-problem-solved/#post-6552128)
 * Did you set the page template? 🙂
 * [⌊Screen Shot⌉⌊Screen Shot⌉[

Viewing 4 replies - 1 through 4 (of 4 total)

The topic ‘Homepage Control problem solved’ is closed to new replies.

 * ![](https://i0.wp.com/themes.svn.wordpress.org/storefront/4.6.2/screenshot.png)
 * Storefront
 * [Support Threads](https://wordpress.org/support/theme/storefront/)
 * [Active Topics](https://wordpress.org/support/theme/storefront/active/)
 * [Unresolved Topics](https://wordpress.org/support/theme/storefront/unresolved/)
 * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/support/theme/storefront/reviews/)

 * 4 replies
 * 3 participants
 * Last reply from: [James Koster](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jameskoster/)
 * Last activity: [10 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/homepage-control-problem-solved/#post-6552128)
 * Status: not resolved