Unable to find where in WordPress to edit section of homepage

  • Hello,
    The original developer of the above site isn’t available to help. The owner of the website wants a particular section of the homepage to be removed as it’s no longer needed. However, when I go into Pages>Home>Edit I can’t find the section which needs to be removed? So I don’t know where to find the content? The section in question is further down the page and it’s called “Gifts made exclusively for Made in Here”.

    The site was custom built and didn’t use a theme which came with code installed. Elementor isn’t installed (which is what I would personally use to build/edit a site).

    Can anyone please help?

    • This topic was modified 4 years, 7 months ago by Steven Stern (sterndata).
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  • The section has class “featured products”. Can’t you find this term when editing the homepage? Otherwise a rough method maybe by using “Additional CSS”:
    .featured-products {display:none;}

    Hi, dineend71.

    I see that the site is using a child theme of Blankslate, which means that you would probably (can’t say for certain) have to edit some PHP if you truly wanted to remove the section from the page.

    If you feel comfortable enough doing so, you could take a look into the “index.php” file within the theme and appropriately edit the the file, seeing if you could find a reference to <div class="featured-products"...

    Otherwise, you can also always use CSS like willem0 suggested, which is a quickfix meaning that the section still exists and is loaded, but CSS hides it from the user’s view.

    Thread Starter dineend71

    (@dineend71)

    Hi Willem and Ian, thank you both for your replies which is much appreciated.
    Do you think it would be feasible for me to use Elementor page builder? Someone mentioned having to use get_template() but I haven’t got a clue where and how I would do that. Thanks, Damian.

    I’m sorry: I’m still not familiar to Elementor, so I can’t answer your question.

    If you will use Additional CSS with: .featured-products {display:none;}
    then maybe you want to add some more additional css, to avoid some resulting empty space.

    Hi, dineend71.

    Elementor can only modify pages that have a reference to the WordPress function the_content() in them, I believe: https://docs.elementor.com/article/56-content-area-not-found

    If the content on your landing page was manually created without any page builder and instead created by hand, then I don’t believe that you could use Elementor to edit the page content and instead would have to examine the code behind-the-scenes.

    You could always install Elementor from the plugin repository and determine whether you could modify the page content without saving any edits to verify if you could actually fix the issue using Elementor.

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