Slider on Static Home Page Gone After Update

  • Esplanade was working just fine for a little under a year. After recent WordPress 3.5.1 update, the slider on the static home page has disappeared. It now only works when “use latest posts” is selected for the front page. This unfortunately is not an option, and a static home page is necessary.

    I’ve gone through functions.php, index.php, slider.php, theme-options.php, but none seem to identify the use of one over the other. I think I have been able to isolate the WP update as the source, since rolling back to earlier versions of Esplanade doesn’t solve this new problem. I’ve also noticed that this is true for other themes (i.e. Responsive) that also had the ability to display sticky posts in the static home page slider.

    How can I get this back? What code applies to that feature (where it identifies which type of front page has been selected) and where is it?

    Would really appreciate any help/insight!

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  • since rolling back to earlier versions of Esplanade doesn’t solve this new problem

    Is it possible you lost some theme customizations on theme update? Do you have a recent backup of the theme files from just before you updated it?

    That is where I would be looking…any customizations would have been lost on theme update and installing an older version would not bring them back, using the backed up copy would…

    Also, did you see this at onedesigns?

    Blog View and Grid View

    This feature is still experimental and currently available only for the home page. Basically, blog view follows the traditional flow of posts while the grid view uses a powerful grid to display the content, offering the ability to showcase almost every type of content from simple text to rich photo galleries, podcasts and videos. In the future we plan to improve this view mode and make it flexible enough to fit the entire structure of the theme.

    And this:

    Multiple Layout Options and Custom Page Templates

    The theme comes with built-in with templates for the most popular page layouts, like sidebars on the left or on the right or splitting content with 2 sidebars. They can be individually chosen for pages and globally integrate with the entire layout. The default website layout can be changed in the theme options page.

    Just some thoughts to review while awaiting the theme dev.’s reply here…

    Thread Starter MImi J

    (@mimi-j)

    Thanks for your reply Seacoast!

    The issue/bug actually occurred only after updating to WordPress 3.5. Worked fine before that. When the theme was eventually updated, I installed the update, hoping there would be a fix; but it didn’t.

    Blog View and Grid View

    Applicable to “use latest posts” selection for the home page; my scenario uses a static home page.

    Multiple Layout Options and Custom Page Templates

    Layout is also not the issue. This is about the home page slider.

    I’ll re-state the issue for clarity: I had a slider on a static home page before updating to WP 3.5–now it’s gone. It now only works in blog view when “use latest posts” is selected.

    I posted originally in the main WP Troubleshooting forum, because I was seeking general understanding and guidance, so that I could fix the problem. (i.e. Finding a manual/programmatic solution. How to add code–some and/or operator or elseif–that allowed me to add the static home page to the index.php file using is_page or whatever works). I have tried various combinations, but to no avail.

    I was ushered over to this theme support, even though I just need some general PHP and WP guidance. And unfortunately, I’ve noticed that the theme’s developers don’t seem to respond to many posts.

    Any insight is appreciated.

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