Zerif Lite frontpage/homepage sections disappeared

  • Resolved Eric Hepperle

    (@codeslayer2010)


    7 years, 5 months ago

    ISSUE:

    I have been building a Zerif-Lite-based website for a client using the free version. I created a child theme to store all my changes. I have successfully created 3 versions of the zerif site so far and have migrated and uploaded them to my server to demo different stages of the development for the customer. Everything has worked fine until today. For some reason, my custom Zerif frontpage/homepage doesn’t show up. Instead, I get a “Blog” page (though I haven’t created any page called “Blog”), the subtitle is “Zerif supports a custom frontpage”.

    I’m not sure how to get my custom front page back. Can anyone at Zerif address why this is happening? I found another post indicating several others have had similar issues of the custom homepage just arbitrarily disappearing. This one for instance, says it was resolved, but there is no CLEAR explanation of what the resolution was: https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/front-page-sections-of-zerif-lite-wont-appear/

    MY SYSTEM:
    I just upgraded to WordPress 4.8 today and things were going fine.
    Windows 10 64/Wamp
    Server: localhost

    Any help is appreciated.

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  • Thread Starter Eric Hepperle

    (@codeslayer2010)

    ##SOLVED!##

    This is what I tried that didn’t work (inspired by the referenced post):

    1. Deactivated plugins one by one.
    2. Changed theme
    3. Reinstalled theme
    4. Downgraded to last (not newest) version of WordPress

    None of that solved it.

    The issue was that — and this doesn’t seem to be clearly documented anywhere — the “Front Sections”, etc. that are all in the config menu for the “Static front page” need to be associated to a page for them to display properly. The theme comes with a “Sample” page, but the Steve Vick tutorial had me delete it. It turns out,

      that page was necessary for the the site to display properly

    (otherwise it displays in “Blog” mode. I created a blank page named “Main” and set it as my static front page. Voila! All working good again! ??

    SOLUTION:

    • Add your content…Create a blank page.
    • Name it “Main”, “New Home”, or something similar.
    • In the theme customizer, under “Static Front Page” section, set your new page in the drop down under “Front Page”.
    • Make sure to click “Save”.
    Thread Starter Eric Hepperle

    (@codeslayer2010)

    Here’s and image of the setting in question:

    Setting a static front page in Zerif-Lite customizer

    Hello,

    Awesome! I am glad to know that you found the solution.

    Let us know if you need help with anything else!

    Thread Starter Eric Hepperle

    (@codeslayer2010)

    ** Added some tags for searchability **

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