Title: Stuck in WordPress hell! Last modified: August 21, 2016 --- # Stuck in WordPress hell! * [billy-not-happy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/billy-not-happy/) * (@billy-not-happy) * [13 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/stuck-in-wordpress-hell/) * WordPress is finding a phantom page that no long exists and is causing all kinds of endless misery and frustration. I call it a phatom page for two reasons: * #1 It does not have the typical edit choice on the Administrator bar and I can only edit the page named Main from the Dashboard. * #2 While edits to contents change if I edit Main, trying to change to different headers or footers doesn’t take and remains the same.\ * Therefore I’m assuming when you enter [http://www.be-awesome.org](http://www.be-awesome.org) it is NOT loading main. I looked at every page I have and none have a slug named home-2, home-3 or any of the previously version deleted long ago. * This saga began when I made a page named blah-1 that would be my future home page. Being a newbie to WordPress I just renamed the page to home. Soon I had several version each with a different slug name home-2, home-3, etc.. * I deleted them ALL except one I renamed Main, this still has the slug named home. WordPress apparently is still finding another version in spite of me sending all other versions of home to the trash and emptying same. * Here’s what happends: * If you enter * [http://www.be-awesome.org/](http://www.be-awesome.org/) * it goes to some phantom page. I know this because I changed the footer and it doesn’t show up correctly. However the contents of the sidebar does. * If however I go directly to page named Main it shows the correct footer but no content in the sidebar. * [http://www.be-awesome.org/home/](http://www.be-awesome.org/home/) * As you can see it’s a totally different header and footer and the shocodes disappear. * This makes no sense to me and has been driving me crazy for over a week. Please SOMEBODY help! Viewing 15 replies - 1 through 15 (of 29 total) 1 [2](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/stuck-in-wordpress-hell/page/2/?output_format=md) [→](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/stuck-in-wordpress-hell/page/2/?output_format=md) * [kmessinger](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kmessinger/) * (@kmessinger) * [13 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/stuck-in-wordpress-hell/#post-3690752) * Did you create a static page? [http://codex.wordpress.org/Creating_a_Static_Front_Page](http://codex.wordpress.org/Creating_a_Static_Front_Page) * Thread Starter [billy-not-happy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/billy-not-happy/) * (@billy-not-happy) * [13 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/stuck-in-wordpress-hell/#post-3690776) * I’m using a theme called Razor which uses Layouts. [http://para.llel.us/themes/razor-wp/](http://para.llel.us/themes/razor-wp/) * The first step with this theme is creating a layout, then you drop content in which can be pages, static blocks, etc.. They fully support Buddy Press and bbPress with shortcodes, one reason I bought the theme. * The page as you see it worked fine as blah-1, my test page. Since I named it home, it no longer works correctly. * [WPyogi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpyogi/) * (@wpyogi) * [13 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/stuck-in-wordpress-hell/#post-3690796) * Have you asked the developers for help: [http://para.llel.us/support/](http://para.llel.us/support/) * These forums only support themes from the repository on this site – we don’t have access to commercial themes, so really have no way to help with theme-specific issues. * [kmessinger](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kmessinger/) * (@kmessinger) * [13 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/stuck-in-wordpress-hell/#post-3690798) * Your theme is supported here, [http://para.llel.us/themes/razor-wp/](http://para.llel.us/themes/razor-wp/) and scroll down to the `sign in to your account` * Premium themes are not supported here as we have no idea of how they are constructed. * Thread Starter [billy-not-happy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/billy-not-happy/) * (@billy-not-happy) * [13 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/stuck-in-wordpress-hell/#post-3690826) * I feel like a Ping-Pong ball. * Of course I asked for support from the developers, ever gave the access to my server. This has been going on for days. They say its a WordPress problem and I should ask here, you guys send me back there. I’m feeling no love, note my user name. * The say there has to be more than ONE home page. Well duh, there is no longer ANY page named home. Yes, there’s a slug named home and I can’t change it or get rid of the damn thing. * Questions: * How can I edit a page I can’t find listed under pages in the Dashboard? * How can I edit the slug? Damn, I’ve tried, and every time I do, it reverts back. * This is more craziness: * If I go to Dashboard I see the page I named main. I click on edit from Dashboard and yes I can edit content but not change the header or footer. I enter [http://www.be-awesome.org/Main](http://www.be-awesome.org/Main) and it comes back with a 404 error. Come on guys you suppose to be the experts on WordPress how it that even possible? On one hand you can edit a page named Main from the Dashboard but when you point to it the browser can’t find it. Makes no sense. None at all. * [Andrew Nevins](https://wordpress.org/support/users/anevins/) * (@anevins) * WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support * [13 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/stuck-in-wordpress-hell/#post-3690831) * If you want support here, you need to be using a theme distributed on WordPress. org. A theme from [http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/](http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/). * Otherwise, please seek help from your theme’s vendors. * Thread Starter [billy-not-happy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/billy-not-happy/) * (@billy-not-happy) * [13 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/stuck-in-wordpress-hell/#post-3690840) * To clear up above post I meant to say I don’t see therefore can’t edit the phantom page one gets directed to when you enter [http://www.be-awesome.org](http://www.be-awesome.org). * Can somebody confirm they don’t see the normal “Edit” option once this page is loaded in their browser in the Administrative bar? * That should be a clue to something. * Thread Starter [billy-not-happy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/billy-not-happy/) * (@billy-not-happy) * [13 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/stuck-in-wordpress-hell/#post-3690844) * Did you READ what I said Andrew? * “Of course I asked for support from the developers, ever gave the access to my server. This has been going on for days. **They say its a WordPress problem** and I should ask here, you guys send me back there. I’m feeling no love, note my user name.” * Guess not. * [WPyogi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpyogi/) * (@wpyogi) * [13 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/stuck-in-wordpress-hell/#post-3690845) * I’m not sure what we can see – we’re not logged in. * Can you try deactivating your plugins? They can sometimes interfere with the theme. * Do you have these same issues in the default WP theme with no plugins? * Thread Starter [billy-not-happy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/billy-not-happy/) * (@billy-not-happy) * [13 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/stuck-in-wordpress-hell/#post-3690859) * Maybe I’m asking the wrong question… * How can I get rid of the crazy slug that’s marked home that seems to be part of the problem? * The issue with doing that is if I delete the page named Main where this slug is attached then I have no home page at all. I assume I can copy and paste the contents into a new page, but that’s how all this started in the first place. * [WPyogi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpyogi/) * (@wpyogi) * [13 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/stuck-in-wordpress-hell/#post-3690861) * Have you [emptied the trash](http://wpmu.org/daily-tip-how-to-force-wordpress-to-empty-the-trash/)? Deleted pages are “visible” to WP until you do that. But some themes do create a home page by default – so it may well be a theme-specific issue. * Thread Starter [billy-not-happy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/billy-not-happy/) * (@billy-not-happy) * [13 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/stuck-in-wordpress-hell/#post-3690886) * You should be able to see the site without logging in, I just went there on a ASUS tablet, curiously wasn’t asked to log in, another issue, but anyhow saw the site. * Against my better judgment since this is what started me down the road to this insane nightmare of screwed-up unable to change settings I created a new page named Start, copy the contents form Main, changed the reference under the Menu bar to point there and entering [http://www.be-awesome.org/Start](http://www.be-awesome.org/Start) it works as it should. * BUT that creates a new problem. Anyone entering just * [http://www.be-awesome.org](http://www.be-awesome.org) still gets directed to the phantom page I can’t edit. * So the question is HOW do I get the new page called Start to be seen when you simply enter [http://www.be-awesome.org?](http://www.be-awesome.org?) * I should add earlier when I did delete all pages named home and emptied the trash, this one crazy page, the one with the multiple dots in front of Hello and Welcome still showed up and still does if you enter just the domain name. WHY, I can’t seem to kill or get rid of this page, yet it does not show up in the Dashboard, it got to be hidden somewhere or something. * I would delete the page named Main, but I almost afraid to, because you guessed it it’s slug is home. Grrr!!!! * [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/) * (@esmi) * [13 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/stuck-in-wordpress-hell/#post-3690889) * If you were using a more normal WordPress theme rather than your very non-standard one, you would simply [create a static front page](http://codex.wordpress.org/Creating_a_Static_Front_Page). The problem here is that your theme appears to do things very differently to 99% of all WP themes – which is why this is a theme issue and you need to contact the theme’s developers about it. * We are not trying to fob you off and I do appreciate that the theme’s developers seem to be disowning responsibility but, if you were using the 2012 theme, you could have a static front page set up in 30 seconds. With your currently theme… we simply don’t know. We have no access to it. We don’t know how it works but we do know that it does appear to be handling this within it’s own framework – meaning that this really _isn’t_ a WordPress issue. * [Krishna](https://wordpress.org/support/users/1nexus/) * (@1nexus) * [13 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/stuck-in-wordpress-hell/#post-3690890) * This is part of your phantom page. Perhaps this will explain you most of the questions you ask here. Did you post it there? If no, who? [http://www.be-awesome.org/2013/04/14/site-tour-1/](http://www.be-awesome.org/2013/04/14/site-tour-1/) * Thread Starter [billy-not-happy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/billy-not-happy/) * (@billy-not-happy) * [13 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/stuck-in-wordpress-hell/#post-3690893) * Hi esmi, for sure The Razor theme is very advanced. WHY I bought it. Yes it does do a lot of things different. You get what you pay for. The free “standard” WordPress themes tend to be crude and simplistic by comparison. Yes, I tried several of the free ones. * The issue I’m asking about now IS Word Press related or so it seems. * How to I get the new “Start” page to be loaded by just entering the Domain name? 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