How to Add a Theme's Home page to WordPress – Dashboard – Pages

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    exhalezeeco · Member ·

    I bought a theme called Digitalis, and I currently have it deployed to a site I’ve decided to build myself hosted through hostgator.

    I’m having an issue with respect to my site homepage not appearing under dashboard – pages. Please note, the home page does show up on dashboard – appearances – menus list; and home is also a live page on my site, obviously, for some reason it just isn’t in dashboard pages. I’ve scoured the search engines and haven’t found a solution.

    Do I need to somehow convert the existing theme’s home page to be static somehow, if my theme even allows for it that is? Any feedback would be appreciated.

  • staff-hbadger · Staff ·

    Hi exhalezeeco,

    If your site is self-hosted you will likely want to direct your question to the WordPress.org forums:

    http://wordpress.org/support/

    In general, though, did you create a specific page called Home? In order for a page to appear in the dashboard you must create it first. When I looked up your Digitalis theme to see if it supported static pages I saw this alert:

    This theme hasn’t been updated in over 2 years. It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when used with more recent versions of WordPress.

    (from http://wordpress.org/themes/digitalis)
    It’s possible you may encounter glitches with that theme.

    Hope that helps!

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