Twenty Seventeen Theme/ No Theme Options Tab

for me to create the look that Twenty Seventeen offers

what does that exactly mean?

are you referring to the sections on the front page?

This may be a plugin or theme conflict. Please attempt to disable all plugins. If the problem goes away, enable them one by one to identify the source of your troubles.

YES! I am unable to section off my pages. It’s just one long page. I am not able to set up the look it has when you scroll down the page. There is no Theme option tab to create those four pages as shown from the videos i have been watching.

Did you try disabling all plugins as I suggested?

I have only two plugins. Akismet and Hello Dolly that came with WordPress. Neither are activated.

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I am not sure as really how to disable them. They are not even activated yet. So I thought they were off. They are asking to be activated.

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Then let’s look at what might be going on in your browser. Disable all extensions/plugins/widgets/whatever and use the most vanilla setup you can. What browser are you using?

from what you showed in your screenshot, scroll down to the bottom of the page.

there should be the sections to edit…

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I am using Chrome and Firefox. I have the issue in both. I even had a friend download Twenty Seventeen to see what may happen. He also had the same issue as I. All he did was download the theme. Then he looked through it to see how it was set up. Never done anything else. He also did not have a Theme option tab.

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I’m using 2017 on two sites without problem. Just to be sure: You are running WP 4.7, aren’t you?

Yes I am. My friend also downloaded a fresh WP as a 4.7 when he tried Twenty seventeen. He is in the same boat I am and He is much more advanced in this kind of stuff. So, I am not sure as what to do.

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BING-FREAKING-O I got it

If you don’t set a fixed front page, the front page section options aren’t there.

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produces

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but if I enable a fixed front page,

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then I see

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Thank you. I am at work and won’t be able to check this until morning. Thank you. It excites me to think I may be able to correct this issue. Thank you so much. I will let you know how it turns out. Blessing man. Thanks!

Well, Steve I did just as you said and showed me in your pictures here. No difference. I tried it both ways four different times. It didn’t change a thing. Still no Theme option tab.

Okay, Twenty Seventeen makes somewhat more extensive use of the Customizer’s Active Callbacks feature than other themes generally do.

Specifically, the Theme Options tab will not appear unless there is actually an option in it which you can adjust and have it take effect on whatever you’re looking at right now.

See, that view of the site on the right hand side of the screen is a real view. You can click through to things like Pages and Posts and all sorts of other stuff that you would normally see on your site. When you do so and navigate through your site, then different controls appear to let you adjust things that you can see right now. It makes no sense to give you a control that doesn’t seem to do anything visible, essentially.

So, what you see available in the left hand sidebar specifically depends on what you’re looking at in the right hand sidebar.

For the “Theme Options” area in particular, it contains two sections:
1. A control called “Page Layout”.
2. A set of controls called “Front Page Section XX Content” where XX is a number referring to a section on the page.

The first control only shows up when you are actually looking at a Page, or when you’re looking at an Archive Page which also does not have a sidebar enabled for it.

The second control only shows up when you are both looking at the Front Page of the site and when the Static Front Page option is turned on.

If neither control fits with what you’re currently looking at, then the entire “Theme Options” tab will disappear, because it contains nothing relevant to the view you currently have of the site.

So, make sure you’re doing the above, as before, but also check and see what it is that you’re actually looking at. If you’re looking at the Blog Posts or something that isn’t an archive or a normal Page, then you might not see the Theme Options section. That’s normal.

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