On my wordpress site I have only pages, no blog posts.
I want 'News' to be the landing page when people come to my site. I went to the reading settings, set 'News' as static front page.
Still, every time I leave the site and come back to it, it opens on the last visited page (not only by me, if you go there now and leave with the 'contact' page open, I'll see the 'contact' page when I visit the site after you).
When I go to the reading settings after leaving the site on a specific page, that page is showing as the static front page. So it does not seem to remember my preferences.
Googling does not seem to give me a solution so I'm very dissappointed in it today. ;)
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How can I reset a web page (not whole website) in WordPress?
For example, I want my "about" page back to default as I messed it up. Google only provide articles on how to reset the whole website.
When I click 'edit page' on my website's home page, it takes me to a different, older theme-ed version of the home page, which I no longer want to use. And for some weird reason, the link to both the different pages is same as well.
may be cached plugins is used? what have you set as your homepage, posts or page?
I want my landing page the same as my home page. I want it not to have a "slug" or URL address after the site's name. So, for example, when you go to "www.example.com", I want that to be my home/landing page.
Right now, when I go to "example.com", I get a page I don't recognize and didn't design. To find my home page, I can click on Home in the navbar, but the "slug" is ?page_id=6.
In the edit screen, I have clicked through "Pages ➞ All Pages ➞ Home ➞ Quick Edit ➞ Slug" multiple times. It always says that the slug for this page is home, but this is not how it appears on the web.
Furthermore, I don't want the slug for this page to be home, I want it to not have a slug at all. As I said above, I want the bare site name (example.com) to take me straight to the homepage.
Why does WordPress keep replacing "home" with ?page_id=6? And why won't it allow me to remove the slug and make this page my landing page?
How can I fix this?
First of all, visit 'permalinks' under 'settings' in your dashboard. It shows many options how your page URL should look like instead of page=x.
Thereafter, read this from WordPress site on how to declare which is your 'home' page when the site is accessed directly with site URL. That should resolve your problems.
Furthermore, generate and download a backup of your site using plugins like 'Duplicator' or other you maybe using so that you can always revert to previous status in case anything goes very wrong.
I'm using WordPress 4.6 with Divi theme.
A project page behaved funny so I deleted it.
Now I wanted to build it again with the same slug, but the deleted page still shows up under that slug.
I deleted the trash
I deleted the browser cache
even opened an incognito tab in Chrome
I even changed the slug at the time the old page appeared. Now the deleted page still shows up. But under the NEW slug.
Completely lost here.
What can I do?
Thanks!
Have you actually deleted the page, and not just left it in 'Bin' or 'Trash'?
If you're logged in as Admin, I believe deleted, and draft pages still show as normal so you can preview them.
Try logging out of /wp-admin/ and see if you can still access the page. If it says 'Page not found', then your page is still in Wordpress and hasn't been deleted.
In Appearance > Theme Options > Front Page Section 1 Content you can edit what pages show on that first scrolling screen. This also drove me mad for a while till I figured it out.
I had this kind of problem because an image had the same name as a page.
I chose Wordpress for my last project but I have a question. I'll use Pages so the client is able to change the content himself. For the moment there are no Post or blog in it. Is it possible to run Wordpess without a blog? It'll be a blog in a future but not now. Thanks.
Absolutely you can have a WordPress site without a blog. You just need to do a couple of things in the admin.
First you need to create 2 pages: a static 'home' page, and a 'blog index' page. The home page is what will be displayed when a visitor comes to the site. The blog index page is just a blank page, with a title you can remember.
Next, in Settings > Reading, select Front page displays a 'static page', then set 'Front page:' to the home page you made, and 'Posts page:' to the blog index page you made.
Yes, for sure you can do this.
Just do the following:
In your admin backend click on Settings -> Reading and set "A Static Page"
Go to Appearance and build a custom menu and add there your pages to a active menu.
Disable all widgets which link to posts.
In fact you need only the first step, but with the second you allow users to navigate on your site. To make the UX better, just add a plugin like Map Categories to Pages to add a category widget or something in this way, to let people browse your site more nicely.