Recover deleted homepage and content

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  jamkmak · Member · Mar 22, 2022 at 8:12 pm

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  I accidentally deleted the homepage of my website. I recovered it from the trash, but all the content on that page is missing, and the page itself is empty. Is there any way to recover the page and restore it to exactly as it was when I deleted it, content, organization, and all?

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  jamkmak · Member · Mar 22, 2022 at 8:20 pm

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  I was able to reopen the editor of that lost homepage with all the original content still intact. Now I’m struggling to get it published and live as the homepage on wickwriters.com.

  It’s also listed under a different URL that is linked to the one listed above (freetofeelorg.wordpress.com). This is the link to the editor page I’m in that retained all the original content:

  https://freetofeelorg.wordpress.com/wp-admin/themes.php?page=gutenberg-edit-site&postType=wp_template&postId=pub%2Fquadrat-red%2F%2Fpage-without-title

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  staff-blorbo · Staff · Mar 22, 2022 at 10:37 pm

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  freetofeelorg.wordpress.com is the site that https://wickwriters.com/ is attached to, so you’re editing the right site.

  You can set the desired page as your front page by following the steps at https://wordpress.com/support/pages/front-page/

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  jamkmak · Member · Mar 23, 2022 at 6:52 pm

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  Thanks for your message. I had tried following the steps above and was unsuccessful.

  If it helps, I was able to recover this content by looking in the “Templates” section of the full site editor. But I can only view this page and its content in the editor here: https://freetofeelorg.wordpress.com/wp-admin/themes.php?page=gutenberg-edit-site&postType=wp_template&postId=pub%2Fquadrat-red%2F%2Fpage-without-title

  There is no option in that editor to “publish” this page, and the page is not available to set as a homepage or add to my nav menu as a result.

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  staff-totoro · Staff · Mar 23, 2022 at 9:52 pm

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  Hi there,

  They way page templates work, they are not usually something that you publish directly, like you would a standard “page”

  But the good news is that you can open any page to edit, and on the right there is a selection for “page template” and you can use that to choose the template you want that page to use.

  This is difficult to explain in words, so I recorded a quick video to show you how to find this setting and change the “template” that page uses as it’s foundation.

  You can view the at this link: https://d.pr/v/3LxliG