Installed new theme – now problems with site.

  • tvellidis

    (@tvellidis)


    14 years ago

    I’m currently working on designing a new site. Until the site is finished and ready to go online, I designed a “coming soon” page that visitors to the URL would see (named home.php).

    I was able to access the wp admin by adding to the main URL “/wp-admin.” I would then enter my user name and password and everything was working well, i.e. I was able to design the new site in WP without visitors to the site seeing the work in progress.

    Yesterday, I downloaded a new theme (Business Corp) from newwpthemes.com. I activated it and can no longer see the “coming soon” page. After a while, I started getting 404 errors when trying to access the main URL.

    I’m new to WP, so my knowledge is still limited.

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  • Chip Bennett

    (@chipbennett)

    First, avoid sites like newwpthemes.com.

    Second, if you activate a new Theme, it is to be expected that whatever Theme you were previously using would no longer be active – thus, it is to be expected that your “Coming Soon” page would no longer be displayed.

    Thread Starter tvellidis

    (@tvellidis)

    Normally, that would be the case, but I had moved the “coming soon” page (home.php) into the root folder of that theme. With other themes, that’s all I had to do and everything was working fine.

    Can you explain what files WordPress uses to compile the first page?

    Chip Bennett

    (@chipbennett)

    WordPress uses the “index.php” file in the WordPress root directory. It builds everything from this file.

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