Reply To: Presence of Slider Causes Main Content to Disappear

No you didn’t do anything wrong, activating Genesis is just like activating any regular theme and this wouldn’t affect what you’re referring to.

Nearly all Genesis themes with custom homepages are designed to operate this way. The home.php file uses Genesis (the framework) functionality to show your blog posts if there are no widgets active (meaning no content inside of the widget areas). If you add any content inside of your widget areas, then the home.php file is activated and it will show your homepage widgets and remove the blog posts….that’s the way it’s supposed to be. Here is a tutorial that sort of explains it – https://appfinite.com/tutorials/how-to-setup-the-home-and-blog-page/