Reply To: Home Page Template not Recognizing Added Sidebars

Ok after about 30 minutes I figured it out. If you’re trying to edit your HOME page, you would need to edit the home.php file. It looks like you added code to your page_home.php file, and that code isn’t being shown because it’s not the Home page…..it’s just a template file that you can assign to a Page.

The Home.php file is what WP recognizes as the home page automatically unless you override that in your Settings. You can either copy some of the code from the page_home.php file and transfer that over to your home.php file, or you could change the Front Page Displays in Settings > Reading to your template file.