How Do I Customize my Homepage and Link My Blog

[pedageo 0]

Hello: I have a couple of questions. Question#1: How can I redirect the default home page to show as a navigation option now that I have setup a static page to serve as my homepage? I still want my members and visitors to be able to access my blog from the main navigation and not just the footer now that I have made a static homepage. Question #2: How do I edit the three columns on my new static homepage to replace the default PageLines content that is located in the three columns underneath the features area? I am using the Feature Page - Standard template. When I edit the page. I do not see how to remove the default content and replace with my own. Help on these two questions would be much appreciated! Thanks, Shinshuri

[Danny+ 1,327]

Hi Shinshuri, 1. I think you may need to create a custom menu. I have provided you with a link to the Wordpress Codex article which has information on how to create a custom menu http://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_Menu_User_Guide 2. Your website has maintenance mode enabled therefore I am unable to see your issue. Can you either disable this plugin or take a screenshot of your page please.

[pedageo 0]

@ Danny I have deactivated the maintenance mode to allow you to see what I am referring to. If you notice the home page is now the index page that shows when you visit my site. I made it static. 1. By default, the WhiteHousePro Theme forces the pages I publish to automatically show in the top menu bar so the custom menu options in WordPress do not work. 2. My blog has disappeared. I cannot locate the actual page for it to show on my site in the top navigation menu since I enabled the static home page in WordPress. I can only reach it from the blog listing in the footer. I would like to have members and visitors access it from my top nav. Check it out and let me know what I can do to resolve these issues. Thanks, Shinshuri

[catrina 103]

[quote]1. By default, the WhiteHousePro Theme forces the pages I publish to automatically show in the top menu bar so the custom menu options in WordPress do not work.[/quote] This is strange. I don't think this should be happening. Did you double check to make sure that the custom menu you created is being set as the main navigation? [quote]2. My blog has disappeared. I cannot locate the actual page for it to show on my site in the top navigation menu since I enabled the static home page in WordPress.[/quote] To create a blog page, you need to create a new blank page called "Blog" and set it as the posts page in your Reading settings. When you visit http://yoursite.com/blog, you should see your posts on that page.

[pedageo 0]

@ Catrina: Thank you for your input. It is helping me. However, I am currently using the main navigation for the WordPress Theme. I am not using custom menus. The last time I tried to use custom menus it was overridden by the WhiteHousePro main menu. I can try it again to see if I get the same issue. Shinshuri

[pedageo 0]

@ Danny and Catrina: Will either of you be able to answer my second question above? Thanks so much for your help on question one. I have it fixed on my site. But, I still need help with question 2.

[catrina 103]

The Custom Menu (a feature of WordPress) should be able to work regardless of the theme. When you enable a different theme and test the custom menu, does it work?

[pedageo 0]

@ Catrina: I have already solved the issue you are referring to. I am talking about Question #2 in my original posting. I still need to resolve the issue with the [b]Feature Page - Standard[/b] template.

[Danny+ 1,327]

Hi, Can you open your website again please, I visited your site again and the maintenance plugin is active again.

[pedageo 0]

Hi Danny: I deactivated the maintenance plugin. You should be able to see the first page on my site www.pedageomedia.com. It is a static page and there are three columns with default Pagelines content underneath the features section. I would like to add my own content and images to those three columns, but I do not see how to do that in the theme customization panel. Also, the default images disappeared and I don't know why. Will that cause problems when I add my own content? Thanks, Shinshuri

[catrina 103]

Ahhh, those are the feature boxes. You need to edit the boxes in the Features settings. What disappeared default images are you referring to?

[pedageo 0]

Ok. Thank you Catrina! I understand now! There are two types of features: The slider and the boxes. It was hard to distinguish in the admin layout. As I thought both of the buttons were for the same features. Don't know why I thought that because the buttons clearly say: New Feature Slide and New Feature Box. That's what happens when you make assumptions. Thanks for all your help. I am modifying the content now.

[Rob 547]

Let us know how it goes.