Invalid page and a disappearing page
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Hi, I’ve been pulling my hair out trying to figure why I can’t add a “Home” to my menu.When I look in the background, I see it says invalid. I’ve googled it and tried all the suggestions and nothing seems to work. So, if someone goes to another tab, they can’t get back to the Homepage. In the post, it shows my page and then had Front Page written after it.
Then my Photos tab when we list all the Event Photos is now blank even though I see it listed in Pages. How do I bring that back? I used to add the events photos as a slideshow but the last attempt, it just loaded them in one long parade. It seems every time I need to make changes, some feature has changed in how to set it up.
Please help!!
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The “Invalid” label in your menu on moragaartgallery.com indicates that the original link to your homepage has been broken, likely because the page was renamed or its URL “slug” was modified in the backend. To fix this, you should not attempt to repair the existing link; instead, go to Appearance → Menus (or the Navigation section in the Site Editor), delete the red “Invalid” item, and re-add the page explicitly labeled “Home — Front Page” from your list of available pages. Regarding your Photos tab, if the page appears blank despite being listed in your dashboard, the Gallery or Slideshow block that previously held your images may have been accidentally deleted or disconnected. You can restore the “parade” of images by opening that page in the editor, inserting a new Gallery Block, and selecting your existing photos directly from the Media Library to repopulate the display.
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From your website Dashboard, it looks like your Homepage was previously set to a page that is now saved as a draft in Pages → All Pages, which is why the menu item is showing as “Invalid.”
At the moment, a different page is set as the homepage under Settings → Reading → Homepage, which is “Moraga Art Gallery announces a new exhibit, ‘From the Earth: Pottery and Blooms’.”
To fix the menu:
- Go to Settings → Reading and confirm the page selected as the Homepage.
- Then go to Appearance → Menus, remove the Invalid item, and add the page currently set as the homepage back to the menu (you can label it Home).
Helpful guides:
https://wordpress.com/support/pages/front-page/
https://wordpress.com/support/menus/For the Photos page, open it in the editor and check whether the Gallery or Slideshow block is still there. If it was removed, you can add a Gallery block again and select the images from the Media Library.
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