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  • April 23, 2013 at 3:03 pm #4134
    CharlesG
    Customer

      1.I Have set a static home page and the widgets will not work. I am assuming I must add some short codes or hooks ,,,,, yes聽2. How do I remove the “home” title on the front page.

      I should point out that I am using the plugin…Display Widgets by Strategy…it adds check boxes for displaying widgets on pages. Thought this might be an issue.

      Any help would be great…I would prefer not to have to switch back to my old thesis theme.

      Thanks

      Charles

      April 23, 2013 at 4:36 pm #4136
      CharlesG
      Customer

        Wes..The demo looks great but man nothing works too well out of the box. I have a header image up now and that doesn’t show either – I think there needs to be more documentation on what is really involved in being able to get your site to look like your demo…. widgets won’t work on the front page either so if there is some better explanation other than those tutorials that are pretty weak, pleaaaasse forward a link that expains what hacks/hooks I an supposed to add to the functions file.

        Thanks

        C

        April 24, 2013 at 1:13 am #4151
        Wes
        Moderator

          Ok I see a couple things you’re doing wrong (not your fault though). First you are setting up your homepage incorrectly. Any WordPress theme that includes a home.php file will automatically show that file as the homepage. You don’t need to create a ‘Page‘, that’s the first issue which is preventing you from seeing your home.php (home widgets) at all. Most Genesis themes are setup this way. It’s a standard WordPress feature. If you look at the General tutorials page – https://appfinite.com/tutorials/ I have a quick tutorial that explains how to do this here – https://appfinite.com/tutorials/how-to-setup-the-home-and-blog-page/

          The above solution will take care of question number 2 since it won’t show up when you set it up properly.

          This theme works very well out of the box, you’ll see 馃槈
          Once you fix the above issue, you should have no problems seeing the homepage.

          I’m guessing you were looking at the wrong tutorial page and didn’t see the tutorials that are designed specifically for the Epik theme?….If not, these are located on the actual Epik Forum page at the top (they are the highlighted sticky posts at the very top) – https://appfinite.com/forum/epik-theme-support/

          I’m not sure what “hooks” you’re referring to, but you won’t need any of that to setup your site to look like the demo. The Epik tutorials should be pretty straightforward….I gave the exact code I use to set up the demo, so all you would have to do is replace the text with your content, and the images with your own images.

          Let me know if this gets everything working.

          April 24, 2013 at 1:22 am #4152
          Wes
          Moderator

            Also, To keep things organized, and to have threads easier to search by topic, we have a “One Question Per thread policy” – https://appfinite.com/topic/forum-rules/. So if you have any other specific questions (like, how to setup the header for example) please create a separate thread for each topic.

            We also have a Search function on the front of the Forum page located here – https://appfinite.com/forums/ …(you may have already seen this).

            Let me know if you get the homepage working and if you have any questions about it.

            Thanks

            January 12, 2014 at 6:57 pm #9975
            NS
            Customer

              As a new Epik theme user I also ran into some confusion on how to setup the homepage. This was very helpful, thank you!

              January 13, 2014 at 10:28 am #9986
              Wes
              Moderator

                You’re Welcome!

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