My homepage is showing page I deleted – help!

  • Resolved Susanna

    (@susannasolgreen)


    7 years ago

    Hi,
    I duplicated my 4 websitepages (home, about, contact etc) with the “Duplicate Post” plugin, and renamed the duplicates. Then I played around with the page called “home” (because I wanted to try out another layout idea, and I thought this was no problem because I keept a copy of the old “home” page), but then decided against it, deleted it, and re-named all my 4 duplicate-pages back to their original name. Including the one called “home”.

    However, when I now click on my home name or on the “visit site” just underneath, it keeps showing the page that I was playing with, but deleted.

    I want my current page called “home” to be the homepage. Is there an option for “set this page as home page” somewhere?

    Or what do I have to name a file, for it to become the home page?
    I was thinking perhaps index.html :0), but I can’t find a file called this anywere.

    Also, problem 2: The pages that I duplicated and then named back (and published) are not showing in the customise/menu list of pages, so I can’t add them to the menu anymore.

    However, if I go to “appearence/menus”, they are listed there, and I can add them to the menu there, but they still do not show up in the live menu.

    Is there a fix for this?

    Many TIA.
    Susanna

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  • Moderator Steven Stern (sterndata)

    (@sterndata)

    Volunteer Forum Moderator

    Please provide a link to a page on your site where we can see this. Thanks.

    Thread Starter Susanna

    (@susannasolgreen)

    This is the wrong, old page:
    https://box5316.temp.domains/~susannj3/

    This is the page I’d like to have showing:
    https://box5316.temp.domains/~susannj3/home/

    TY :0)

    • This reply was modified 7 years ago by Susanna.
    Moderator Steven Stern (sterndata)

    (@sterndata)

    Volunteer Forum Moderator

    What do you have set under settings->reading for the home page?

    I can’t see your site because you have a “coming soon” page up.

    Thread Starter Susanna

    (@susannasolgreen)

    That fixed the first problem! I have now set the page “home” as my homepage, and all is good. Thank you! That’s fabulous! :0D

    But my pages are still not showing up in the list of pages, when I try to edit in “customise/menus”..

    Moderator Steven Stern (sterndata)

    (@sterndata)

    Volunteer Forum Moderator

    Are the pages published? Sorry, but I don’t know what the duplicator plugin does when it makes pages.

    Thread Starter Susanna

    (@susannasolgreen)

    Actually, I’ve just worked the menu issue out! I was editing an older menu, therefore the live site didn’t update.

    Thanks a million for your help with the “main homepage”-page, Steve Stern, I’m so grateful :0D I can carry on with my site now.

    Thanks again.
    Susanna

    • This reply was modified 7 years ago by Susanna.
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