Homepage doesn’t use the theme ‘single-post’ layout design

  • I can’t share a link since I’m working on a localhost, but in short, I am trying to make a homepage that looks like a single-post page. However, somehow the homepage doesn’t want to use the same style choices as I’ve made for my single post pages.

    Single post looks like this:

    View post on imgur.com

    Homepage looks like this:

    View post on imgur.com

    First I tried to load a single post into the homepage, but I couldn’t figure out how to make it work. Even redirects didn’t work out.

    So then I tried to mimic how it is supposed to look as a single post by adding in blocks but these block do not follow the same width settings that a single post page uses.

    I’ve been trying to make my homepage look like a single post page for over two fulltime days now and I just got my artworks featured in a magazine this weekend so I’d really like to fix his issue so that I can upload my site and go live ??

    Is there someone that has advice on either turning the homepage into displaying a predefined single-post, or make it so that it follows the same settings as a single-post page?

    What I already tried is about 30 different ways of loading a post into the homepage without success through adding code into the functions.php and child themes. I also tried to make it redirect as described here:
    https://bavotasan.com/2015/single-post-as-home-page-in-wordpress/

    Sadly that didn’t work out either. Maybe I’m missing something as all of the articles I could find were from before 2014, maybe there is now a setting that allows you to display a single post on the homepage I’m not aware of.

    Thanks for your time,
    Marinus

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  • Hello,

    Please go to Appearance > Customize > General Options > General settings, from here you can set a similar layout of the home and other pages.

    If you don’t want to set it globally, edit the home page in WordPress, scroll down at the OceanWP settings, and set the layout according to need.

    You can check the SIngle post settings via Appearance > Customize > Blog > SIngle post.

    Let us know if you are still facing any issues with it.

    Thread Starter ohmarinus

    (@ohmarinus)

    Hi Abhishek, thanks for your reply. I guess the issue I’m having (also in the contact page and store for example) is that when I display these pages they are not using the same settings as those that are applied to single-post pages are using a ‘full-width’ setting for displaying posts.

    This results in the regular static pages showing up much wider than the single-post pages. I haven’t found a way to fix this yet as it seems that the internal settings in OceanWP do not allow to set a static-page width to the same width as a single-post would use for text and images.

    My first instinct would be to manually create a <div> around the content with a fixed width to make the static-page content appear in somewhat the same width, but this means it would break functionality on my tablet and mobile pages. Are there any resources that can help me set up the static page to look similar to a single-post?

    Hello,

    Sorry to hear that you are experiencing the issue.

    Posts and page settings are completely different.

    And you can create a new page and design it according to your need using any editor like Gutenberg or elementor.

    Do you simply want to display the homepage in the same layout as a single post? right?

    If yes, then you can achieve that using the above settings.

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