Issues with Homepage and Postspage

  • Hello everyone,

    I recently installed the “Loudness” block theme on my WordPress site and encountered a problem that I don’t quite understand. Maybe you can help me with it.

    After installing the theme, I created the pages “Home,” “Blog,” “About,” and “Contact.” Under Settings > Reading, I then assigned the static page for “Home” and the posts area to the “Blog” page.

    Now here’s the part that completely confuses me: instead of correctly assigning the homepage (“Home”) and the posts archive page to the Home template and Index template respectively, clicking on “Blog” opens the home-template, and the “Home” page is assigned an empty page template.

    Even if I set a “new” frontpage in the website editor, there is no way to change the content through “Edit Page.” I don’t want to change the content in the Website Editor > frontpage because that’s the template, and in WordPress, content and design are separated.

    I’m not sure what I’m doing wrong or where my mistake lies. I’m completely stuck here and would appreciate your help. Has anyone else noticed this issue? How do you deal with it?

    I would be grateful for any tips and tricks you can share with me.

    Thank you in advance!

    • This topic was modified 1 year, 9 months ago by f3rdal.
    • This topic was modified 1 year, 9 months ago by f3rdal.
    • This topic was modified 1 year, 9 months ago by f3rdal.
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  • Hey there,

    What is the URL of the site you’re working with exactly?

    The content seen in the Home template, is that content. With the page that’s been created, has this been assigned the Home template?

    Many thanks!

    Thread Starter f3rdal

    (@f3rdal)

    Thank you very much for your reply.

    Unfortunately I can’t give you a link as I am currently testing the theme locally and looking into block themes.

    I am not sure if I understood your question correctly. I will try to explain it to you again:

    I created the pages “Home,” “Blog,” “About,” and “Contact.” Under Settings > Reading, I then assigned the static page for “Home” and the posts area to the “Blog” page.

    Now when I click on Home in my navigation, a blank page template opens.

    When I click on Blog, it opens the template, which I think should be the front page for the home page.

    If I set up a “new” Frontpage as the home page in the website editor, then I get the correct template. The front page “Home” is displayed with this template. But if I now want to edit this page via “Edit page” then I get a blank page with the page template. Do you understand what I mean?

    The problem with the “wrong assignments” demonstrates also this video: https://youtu.be/RsFMHafzUz4?t=93

    Many thanks!

    • This reply was modified 1 year, 9 months ago by f3rdal.

    Gotcha, that does sound confusing…

    So to confirm, is your content actually in the template? (and not the page)

    Alas, this mistake is quite common.

    Thread Starter f3rdal

    (@f3rdal)

    I’m sorry if it sounds very confusing.

    I’m just as confused when it comes to block themes.

    Let me try to explain it to you.

    1. Settings: Assigning the respective pages
    1. Home Page Template: Assigning a page to a page template
    1. Blog Home Template: Assigning the blog overview page to the home template (which cannot be edited or modified unless you edit the template itself! But you don’t want to do that because it’s a mistake.)

    I would like to show you the pictures that document my problem, but I am not allowed to upload them.

    As for your question, no, I haven’t inserted the content into the template, and I know that would be a mistake. The video also demonstrates that, by the way.

    Can you help me navigate through this jungle and tell me how I can use the theme I like?

    • This reply was modified 1 year, 9 months ago by f3rdal.
    Thread Starter f3rdal

    (@f3rdal)

    No matter how I turn and twist it, I have no way in this theme to assign templates to a page and edit them (not in the site editor) through the page editor. It’s not possible. Indeed, it is a pity. Truly a disappointment.

    I know these can be frustrating for sure – can I make a suggestion? ??

    It’s free to create a site on WordPress.com – and it’s free to use Loudness.

    So that we can best help, may I suggest creating a free site on WordPress.com, using this theme, and importing the theme demo content and settings, that you can replicate on the local installation, or you could host the site on WordPress.com going forward…

    You wouldn’t be obligated in anyway to make a purchase when creating a free site: https://wordpress.com/log-in/

    It may give you more insights on how the theme operates – and you can get help direct from WordPress.com.

    What do you think?

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