Encountered Several Issues

Hi there,
I am new to this theme, however I have the following issues.

1) Images slow to load (compared to previous theme)
2) it forwards to “/home” whenever I go to the home page
3) The search functionality does not work, it goes to home page instead of result
4) Will not allow me to preview document before “Publish”

The site is http://www.24flix.com

Any help would be truly appreciated.

Sounds like you have some caching issues, and/or you need to reset the template used as static home page; double check your htaccess file, resave permalinks, etc.

Theme does not control location of your “home” page, that is usually from a permalink setting.

You need to regenerate thumbnails to fit theme sizes, and ideally use an optimization methodology either via functions.php setting for compression level, or plug like smushit.

Likely fixing the permalink structure, caching, and checking your htaccess file for leftovers from old theme(s), would be first check on not being able to preview.

Remember to disable all plugins from old theme!

Hi Chris,
Thanks for your help. I am using a static home page “home”
I checked the htaccess and here’s what it says…

# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ – [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>

# END WordPress

Should there be something that changes?
I also installed a caching plugin. I am getting better results in terms of loading
speed but it’s still going to /home

See my other note in your search issue thread …

check to see if you have a category setup as /home/ as that would conflict with a page called ‘home’ — or possibly change your ‘home’ page template for theme to what I do, I name it something like “homepager” … then set that as the static page.

Using “home” might be the prob. 🙂

(put another way; rename your homepage static page — it won’t lose settings — then reset the static page from the wp admin panel to that new name in the drop down …)

THank you Chris S
Something really interesting happens when I do that. I changed the static page to another page
that has similar info with the original and when I go to my site http://www.24flix.com it’s completely blank.

I’d love to have one of the developers take a look at this. It’s really bizarre

Please help

Try switching to the default WP theme, and see if that fixes it?
Theme should have nothing to do with your permalinks structure.

Be sure you clear ALL your server/CDN caching.

Did you try just renaming the current page you have for your home page now ?

Just change it and/or the title from “home” to “homepage” for example. Then go to your static setting and choose the new name.

Hi Alin,
It’s very bizarre, I remove every single plugin and still going to “/home”
I had installed the demo? If I remove it will it modify my site?

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