Most Genesis themes that have a home page template work like this – If you have a home.php file that has widgets, that page will only appear if you have content inside of the home widgets. If you don’t have anything inside of your widgets, then it will show the blog by default. That’s the way it’s supposed to work. This theme wasn’t designed to show the sidebar content on the homepage….so that’s why that happened. It’s not a bug or anything, that’s just the way it’s designed.
So if you want to add content in a certain place of the homepage, you may want to take a look at this page – http://appfinite.com/topic/epik-widgets-guide/ since it shows you were all the widgets are and how wide they are.
Make sure and take a look at the tutorials and code snippets for this theme at the top of the Epik forum page – http://appfinite.com/forum/epik-theme-support/ They are the highlighted yellow sticky posts at the top.
Hope this helps.
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