Cannot display static homepage, please help!

So basically I’ve been dealing with this since yesterday and cannot find a solution at all.

I can’t get my website to display a front page.

If I keep my home page as “mywebsite.com/home”, I type that into the url bar and it works perfectly. As soon as I try to set the page as Front page (and ‘show static page’), my website automatically reverts to some other page that I created in the past that doesn’t even exist anymore (breadcrumb shows “home > Blog” but that doesn’t even exist on my site??).

This pretty much only happens when I type “mywebsite.com” url into the url bar. Anything else (“mywebsite.com/home”; “mywebsite.com/news” etc) works fine.

Everything looks fine when I look at it through my WP panel. Only when I actually try and go to the website url can I see what’s going on.

This started happening after I installed this theme; first, the website “split” into 2: one ‘http’ version (showing the proper homepage) and one ‘https’ version, exhibiting this problem.

I honestly have no idea what’s going on; I’ve spent many hours researching online but can’t find anything about this anywhere.

Plese help guys!

• This topic was modified 8 years by soulfede.
• This topic was modified 8 years by soulfede.

Thanks for the reply, but it’s stuck, it doesn’t work. Whatever I do, the front page keeps being stuck on an outdated page that I already deleted but still keeps showing up.

I can’t have a front page AT ALL. Also any page or post gets stuck like that unless I put a number at the end of the permalink…??

Example: new post, permalink is “https://www.mysite.com/post”, it gets stuck and doesn’t get updated; permalink changed to “https://www.mywebsite.com/post1”, it works and it actually goes live.

This only happens from desktop. Mobiles can see pages and posts properly, UNLESS they try and go on the front page (“https://www.myswebsite.com”), in which case they also see this old stuck outdated page that was supposed to be in the trash.

This makes no sense to me and I’ve spent more than ten hours trying to figure out what could be causing this but to no avail.

Please help.

• This reply was modified 8 years by soulfede.

Simion, I’m going to give you examples so maybe I can be a little less confusing.

This is the front page I would like to have: https://www.cripto-italia.com/home1/

I can’t set it as front page because if I do, it will just disappear and the live website will just show this outdated thing instead, as it does with anything that I try to set as front page: https://www.cripto-italia.com

Also you’ll notice that I called it “……/home1”. That’s because if I don’t put a number at the end of the permalink, the page gets stuck and doesn’t get updates on the live website.

Could I perhaps give you my WP login info so that you could have a quick look into it? I seriously don’t know what to look for anymore.

I have that same homepage that you want working http://www.satellitebeachdaily.com

pages->all pages>homepage – front page

Create the homepage-frontpage with WPBakery Page Builder Backend Editor

add rows to the page, then fill in the individual rows with the type of blocks you want to use (add element) by clicking the + sign in each row

You can then divide the rows up in 1 single column or multiple columns

Thanks but the problem is not that I don’t know how to make a page.

The problem is that the changes that I make to my website do not go live in real-time.

Pages (especially the front page) get “stuck” in an older version and don’t get the updates. That is the problem.

I’ll be more clear: I set a page as the front page; I edit it and all of that; I update che changes.

But my website still shows an old page that doesn’t exist anymore. It’s like what I do with WP doesnt get sent to the live website at all, just randomly once a day or so.

• This reply was modified 8 years by soulfede.

Just sent an email to “contact@tagdiv.com” with all the info requested.

Hello,

Any news?

Thanks!

That seems to work, such a simple solution; thank you.

Hi, I’m having the same issue – can you share the solution here please?

Thanks!

Try to disable the default caching option in your WP settings!

Where is that, I don’t think I’ve seen that before!

Ignore me, it was user error…

I have the same trouble. Can you send me info how to solve this trouble?

Mine was pure user error – I used the wrong drop down menu when I was picking a static page to use as the home page!