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December 19, 2015 at 10:28 am #174335smileyk9Member
I assume there is a simple solution to this question. After a few days of poking around and reading solutions to similar problems, I still haven't figured it out. So, on to the collective braintrust here.
I'm new to Genesis, so we hired a developer to duplicate our existing live site Home Page (smileydog.com) on our development site (smiley.dog/wp/) He did a great job, until a typhoon decimated his workplace. So, I've not been able to communicate with him for the past week.
Here's the problem. On our live site, I can easily go into style.css and edit the content of our page. I know just about enough to not screw things up, and understand where files are located.
With the development site, I can;t find where to edit the text portion of the Home page. I see the html when I view page source in a browser, but I'm not able to track down where it lives.
The template being used for the static home page does not appear as a template file in any folder. We now have a few php files which appear to be used for the home page named bk2-front-page.php, and custom-home.php. Both of these call a custom header which appear to refer to files in our live site.
I thought this meant that somehow the dev site was pulling content from the live site (?!). But when I update the live site, those changes do not show on the dev site, so that turned out to be a silly idea.
We're not using widgets, and this is a separate Home page from Genesis. On the live site, files reside in their own folder within the theme. On the Genesis dev site, that folder has been duplicated and lives in the root directory, but I don't believe it is being used.
Can anyone help me figger out where/ how to edit our Home page on the dev site?
http://smiley.dog/wp/December 19, 2015 at 11:14 am #174337Victor FontModeratorHome page text can generally be found in widgets. Go to the WordPress Admin appearance/widgets page.
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Have you requested your free website audit yet?December 19, 2015 at 11:27 am #174340smileyk9MemberThanks Victor-
I've checked widgets and didn't see what I was after.
We're using some widgets in the Right Header and Primary Sidebar. The "Home-Top" widget section has two Genesis- Featured Page widgets added.
One of them references the "Responsive Home Page" which also shows as our static Home page selection. There is no text or code to edit there. This page is nowhere to be found in the Page list or in the theme folder.
The other widget references "Sample Page" which also can't be found in the Page list or in the theme folder.
Still baffled…
December 19, 2015 at 12:20 pm #174342Victor FontModeratorYou said you are using a static home page? If that's the case, you aren't using a Genesis home page. I looked at your source code and the content is coming from a page with the id of 38612. Look under the WordPress pages menu.
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Victor
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Have you requested your free website audit yet?December 19, 2015 at 1:01 pm #174346smileyk9MemberThanks again, Victor-
I've looked under the WordPress pages menu, although perhaps I haven't done this correctly.
Both the Featured Page widget and Static Front Page dashboard fields indicate that a page called "Responsive Home Page" is being used.
I've scrolled through the listing of Pages and did not find that. I've searched fro Responsive, Home, Home Page, and Responsive Home Page in the Pages listing and haven't found it.
The HTML I see when I look at Page Source in my browser references "Sample Page." I've tried to find that as well and it remains elusive.
Is there a way to search for a page by its ID instead of name? That's one thing I have not tried…
December 20, 2015 at 9:52 am #174397smileyk9MemberWell, duh.
The solution was far too simple for me to see.
The Home page doesn't show up in the Page list since it is generated by the database.
To edit, it's a simple matter of using the silly "Edit Page" button that appears on the top of the page when logged in as an Admin. I rarely use this approach and completely overlooked it. Clicked that, saw the familiar Visual/ Text editor and all is well.
Hope this helps someone else in a similar situation!
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