I have two different homepages?!?!

Hi xcyteme,

Have a look at your reading settings under Settings—Reading check what you have got set as your homepage in these. If you want your main posts page as your homepage just click the button that says “your latest posts”.

Hope this helps

Hey Dave,

I’ve got it set to recent posts instead of static page. When go to my url it’s the page with posts displayed, the problem is that I don’t know how to edit this page in “pages” and also can’t make it the parent page for the other pages coming from the frontpage.

I set up a page called “Home” in pages (and had it mistaken as the parent for the other pages), now I realise that I have to get rid of that, because it’s not even the homepage.

If you know how I can have the frontpage with the blogs designated as the parent page for all other pages that would be great.
Also is there a reason that the frontpage doesn’t show up in “pages” or som way to correct that?

Thanks

Hi Again,

The reason the posts ‘homepage’ doesn’t appear in pages is the fact it is not, in terms of WordPress at least, a page, its a collection (archive) of blog posts.

Could you explain a little more on what you are looking to achieve with the blog page being the parent page?

I really like the look of a lot of recent blog posts as the front page. If I could set a static page to do the same thing as when showing recent posts is selected I’d be away.

Right now I have HOME on the nav bar, that doesn’t go to the domain name, it goes to https://www.digitalcopywriting.com.au/sample-page

I just want the homepage (digitalcopywriting.com.au) to display in the format it is right now (blog posts) with the HOME link on the nav bar pointing to it (after I delete home, which was made from the sample page that came with the theme, hence the url) and ideally all other pages on the nav bar being children of the “homepage”

Maybe using a static page with a plug in for the same set up as if I select recent posts for the front page?

Hi There,

Take a look at Appearance—menus, you could set up a custom link in a menu marked home and point it to https://www.digitalcopywriting.com.au which I think should fix your issue, if you are using a theme which doesn’t support custom menus, then I’d consider switching themes

Thanks Dave that worked, I thought it might be something quite simple.

Any idea about how to make the frontpage the parent of the other pages?

You can do this in the menu too,

Just drag all the other pages to the right of your menu, they’ll stick and you should be done.

No worries. Happy to help.

Your good deed for the day Dave, Thanks mate!

No worries,

Good start to the week, on the right hand side you’ll see some info marked about this topic, can you mark it as resolved?

I found that if I “stick” the other pages by moving them to the right that they disappear from the homepage nav bar. I’m taking it that’s not mean to happen by making them children of the front page?

Can you explain why you want the homepage to be the parent?

Might be easier coming at it from a different direction

I’ve just read that it’s beneficial SEO-wise to have parent/children set-up properly.. Maybe it’s not such a big deal though