I’ve just installed Newspaper on an established site. I installed the reconfigured Newspaper demo (without content). My category pages look fine, but all I get on the home page is a list of the latest posts. How do I fix this and is there a way to configure which categories render on the home page (and in which order)? I’ve tried two of the other demos with the same result.
Update: The problem appears to be coming from my home page settings in Settings > Reading > Front page displays – “latest posts” is selected. What should it be set to?
See the docs… You need to specify the static page being used for home page.
Hello Chris,
I bought this theme because it appeared to be an out-of-the-box solution that is well supported. Your answer does not take the matter forward for me. Please note that I am not a developer.
I am changing themes from Elegant Themes Lucid to Newspaper.
I have read your docs – watched the video – and then done this again and again. Here’s what your docs say:
– If you want to use a demo, install it and that’s it. There is no information about setting the home page etc.
– If you want to design your own page (Page Settings > Homepage – How to build and set it) – Create a home page – design a page – set the page. This is not what I want to do.
In WordPress I have a pre-existing page named “Home” with the content below in the editor. This content does not change when I switch to Newspaper with the Newspaper demo (without content) installed:
“et_pb_section][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=”1_4″][et_pb_sidebar admin_label=”Sidebar” orientation=”right” area=”sidebar-1″ background_layout=”light” remove_border=”off” /][/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_2″][et_pb_blog admin_label=”Blog” fullwidth=”on” include_categories=”229,14,18,25,19,26,27,28,29,30,31,65,32,13,1,103″ show_thumbnail=”on” show_content=”off” show_more=”off” show_author=”on” show_date=”on” show_categories=”on” show_pagination=”on” offset_number=”0″ background_layout=”light” use_dropshadow=”off” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid” /][/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_4″][et_pb_sidebar admin_label=”Sidebar” orientation=”left” area=”sidebar-1″ background_layout=”light” remove_border=”off” /][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][/et_pb_section]”
This looks like Lucid code to me and installation of the demo should override this content, but I’m not sure if this is how it works.
What is the best solution? Can I create a second page? If so what should I call it and how do I get the correct code for it?
I am working on the live site, not in a production environment. I need to keep my site running on the old theme while I make changes to content that doesn’t work with the new theme.
I have three sites to change over and would like to move ahead as soon as possible.
Thank you in advance
Hi,
Installing the Newspaper theme this doesn’t mean that it will automatically change the old shortcodes for you homepage. You will have to create a new page using the Visual Composer pagebuilder, set the page template.. – https://forum.tagdiv.com/block-settings-tutorial/ also a video tutorial that may help – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgWqozuqmJk then set it as frontpage. You don’t have to be a developer to do this, just to have some basic WordPress knowledge and also we will answer for the theme related issues. Please note that if you install the demo without content it will import only some fonts, colors… it will not add new pages, posts, categories and also it will not change the frontpage.
Also if you want to keep your site running, you can install the theme on a subdomain to customize it. You can find more information on the subject here: http://www.passiveincomereality.com/how-to-create-a-sub-domain-in-wordpress/ You can also find a plugin for maintenance. Something like https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-maintenance-mode/
Hope this helps!
