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  • September 5, 2013 at 7:02 am #7118
    Chris Correia
    Customer

      I followed instructions for installing/using the Genesis Responsive Slider and Featured Page widgets. To the best of my knowledge, I didn’t miss any steps.

      They do not show on the home page.

      What might I have neglected to do?

      Site is http://www.christophercorreia.com

      Thanks for any help you can give.

      September 5, 2013 at 10:22 am #7122
      dev77
      Customer

        Genesis is weird. If you don’t put something in one of the other widget areas (like “welcome” or one of the “home bottom” boxes, none of the widget areas show and homepage defaults to a blog page. Throw a text widget with some typing in it in “welcome” and see if slider shows.

        September 5, 2013 at 2:01 pm #7128
        Eric
        Customer

          No it’s not an error or “weird” or anything, this is actually a WordPress feature. The way it works is if you’re using a theme that has a home.php file, it will show the Blog by default. Once you add any widget to any of the home widget areas then the home widgets will show. This is the way it’s supposed to be since not everyone needs to use the Home widgets, especially those that just need a blog.

          Most of the Homepages have this activation feature in Genesis.

          I create awesome sites for awesome people! Contact me if interested – ericsanchez1585@gmail.com

          September 6, 2013 at 1:29 pm #7166
          Chris Correia
          Customer

            Thanks, Eric and dev77. I got them going. Different issue. I had the Static Front Page set to “static page” rather than “show latest posts.” I was thinking since my front page is not a blog, then make it static. Wrong.

            Your answers both are helping me better understand WordPress and Genesis, if only in a “piecing the big puzzle together” way.

            Now let’s see what other problem I can face. Thankfully, it’s probably content at the moment. . .

            September 6, 2013 at 11:29 pm #7186
            Eric
            Customer

              You’re Welcome!

              I just remembered this – https://appfinite.com/tutorials/how-to-setup-the-home-and-blog-page/ in the tutorials. Its about setting up a homepage.

              Let us know if you have any other questions.

              @dev777 thanks for the assistance.

              I create awesome sites for awesome people! Contact me if interested – ericsanchez1585@gmail.com

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