Text on home page isn’t available to edit

  • Hello, I have just taken over editing a WordPress site for our UK charity from a previous committee member. On the live site https://chepstow.org.uk/ there is a block of text on the left hand side and a carousel of images on the right, but on the WordPress Home page editing site (accessed via GoDaddy), the text isn’t visible for editing. All I can see is
    “Home

    [slideshow_deploy id=’44’]

    FIND US ON FACEBOOK button”

    I have successfully edited other pages on the site, but am at a loss as to how to view and edit the Home Page text. Can someone help?

    Thanks

    The page I need help with: [log in to see the link]

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  • lisa

    (@contentiskey)

    check in SETTINGS > READING area to see which page is assigned to front / home page and posts page. maybe the front page is set by the theme? is the active theme available in https://www.ads-software.com/themes/?

    I’m not sure if you’ve seen it before, but this code is for a “shortcode”:

    [slideshow_deploy id=’44’]

    Basically, that’s a bit of text that tells WordPress to display something from a different system, normal a plugin somewhere, in that page.

    Seeing as it’s slideshow_deploy, I’d guess that there’s slideshows set up somewhere in your admin area, so check around to see what’s there. When you find that, one will have an ID of 44, and that would be what’s controlling the content in that area.

    Hi @lynne2023cas,

    It seems to me that you are on the right page but the text you want to edit is not on the EDIT page in the backend. I suspect that the text might be in the template file.

    To help us better troubleshoot or find out how to edit the text on your homepage. Can you:

    1. Post a screenshot of what it looks like in your EDIT home page screen?
    2. Go to Appearance >> Theme File Editor then see if there’s a file called the content-home.php or something like that on the right side of the page under the heading ‘Theme Files’?
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