Two Menu Woes on Inherited Website

  • Resolved ultramusicman

    (@ultramusicman)


    9 years, 1 month ago

    Greetings,

    I have inherited responsibility for an existing website:
    https://rto-pa.com
    Prior to this, I would roll my own HTML code and use FileZilla to upload files to the server. See https://galactictravels.info for one of my own sites.

    The RTO-PA website was created using WordPress which is a new thing for me. I have successfully updated the About, Contact, and Schedule pages. That was a cinch but then I tried to tackle the Home page. Egad! I have never torn out so much hair in my life! I am cross-eyed from reading, trying, reading, guessing, trying, reading, reading, reading, trying, reading… I now come to you for some help.

    I went to All Pages and, one by one, edited each existing page: About, Contact, Schedule, and Home. Edits made to the first three worked fine. Not so much the Home page. None of the edits I made would show up on the website. I am using Firefox to do all of my editing as that’s where I logged in to WordPress. I am using Safari on my iMac as a way to inspect what a visitor will see.

    While editing the Home page, I used Preview Changes to see what’s what and everything looks as I expect it to look. Once happy with my edits, I clicked on Update. I then went to the Safari window, pressed refresh and saw no change what-so-ever!

    After much reading, I went to Settings –> Reading and selected static page with Home selected for both From Page and Posts Page. Clicked on Sace Changes. Went to Safari and refreshed. Eureka? Not quite. The “home” page finally changed but it contained the content of the About, Contact, Schedule, and (new) Home pages in that order. So I do have the intended Home page material there, but now it’s at the bottom of a very long page that includes all of the other pages. This is as close as I have been able to come to getting what I want. I cannot seem to alter the “default” home page or get the intended home page (as listed in the All Pages tab) to display all by itself.

    I now beg your help.

    Cheers,

    Bill

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  • Thread Starter ultramusicman

    (@ultramusicman)

    Typo Corrections:

    In the last paragraph, I wrote:

    After much reading, I went to Settings –> Reading and selected static page with Home selected for both From Page and Posts Page. Clicked on Sace Changes.

    What I meant to write was:

    After much reading, I went to Settings –> Reading and selected static page with Home selected for both Front Page and Posts Page. Clicked on Save Changes.

    I highlighted the fixes.

    I don’t see the problem, when I looked at your site I get a hime page that has different content to the other pages

    Thread Starter ultramusicman

    (@ultramusicman)

    Hi Venutius,

    Thank you for taking a look. I guess that I forgot to mention that I returned to Front page displays Your latest posts which shows the Home page that I cannot edit. As much as I want to change the horrible impression that page gives, having the page show all the info from all the pages just wasn’t sitting well with me, either.

    Cheers,

    Bill

    I think part of the problem was setting both the static home page and the posts page to be the homepage. I’ve not done that before and I’m not sure it’s what you was. Try just having the static home page and the home page, not posts as well.

    Thread Starter ultramusicman

    (@ultramusicman)

    Thank you Venutius! Setting a static page with only the front page set to home worked. I didn’t set the Posts Page to anything. It still says -Select-. The first time I tried to do that, WP asked if I really wanted to do that. It didn’t give me a way to reply but then took me back to the Settings –> Reading tab where I did the same thing again, despite knowing that a definition of insanity is taking the same action and expecting a different result. Well, I got a differnet result and it’s the one I wanted! Thanks again.

    Thread Starter ultramusicman

    (@ultramusicman)

    Topic is resolved.

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