How do I set up the homepage?

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  • #485931

    tinamama
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    I have been trying to set up my site and I cannot for the life of me figure out the homepage. I am using Supreme Directory. I played with this a few months ago and had it all set up fine, but then I got off track and now I’m back and I am having to relearn…but I do feel like there have been some updates in the meantime that have changed things. I have in my notes to use the “Popular Post View” widget…apparently, that’s what I used before. But I don’t see this widget anymore.

    Can anyone point me to instructions on how to set up the homepage like the demo of the Supreme Directory homepage?

    #485934

    Guust
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    It sounds like you are using V2: https://wpgeodirectory.com/docs-v2/themes/supreme/

    Let us know how you went. Thanks

    #485980

    tinamama
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    That page wasn’t what I was looking for, but I figured it out on my own last night. Is there no documentation on this? If not, there really should be! It would saved me HOURS of frustration and poking around trying to figure out how you guys had changed things.

    Obviously this is relevant to the Gutenberg changes…and perhaps to the version change? I have been out of the loop a few months working on other projects and am just getting back to working on my directory, so I’m not sure.

    What I discovered is that the widgets that USED TO be added via customizer are now added via editing the homepage and adding Gutenberg blocks to the homepage. Through poking around, I discovered a whole list of widgets that can be added as blocks. But I didn’t find any documentation anywhere to explain these changes! So either they don’t exist or they are not visible enough.

    I also discovered, only because I poked around in these forums and saw it mentioned here…and this is another thing I feel should be documented somewhere for people who have been using your plugin since before these changes… that the widget that used to be called “Popular Post View” has been renamed “Listings”.

    I find it interesting and frustrating that none of this was mentioned in your response above to my post and I had to figure it out for myself. I pay for a membership and expected better support than this. For me that was a lot of money to fork out…I had expected better documentation and tech support. Although in fairness, I’ll give the benefit of the doubt that maybe my post wasn’t clear what I was looking for. But the documentation should be something I can easily find as these are pretty huge changes to setting up the homepage!

    The fact that I had to figure this on my own is very disappointing. If you do have documentation for all this, please point it out to me because I’ve been looking.

    #486008

    Alex Rollin
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    Hello,

    Apologies about the trouble finding the docs.
    We link to the getting started doc from the setup wizard and the conversion/update page but we will keep working on making it more up-front.

    Thanks for the feedback.
    https://wpgeodirectory.com/docs-v2/geodirectory/getting-started/

    #486023

    Guust
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    This page was linked from the page I gave you, where it talks about the Supreme Front page :
    https://wpgeodirectory.com/docs-v2/geodirectory/getting-started/front/

    And this is the article for the WP 5 changes: https://wpgeodirectory.com/docs-v2/integrations/gutenberg/

    I hope that helps.
    Thanks

    #486751

    tinamama
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    Thank you. I appreciate the response. I’m now seeing so much more documentation and more info…I appreciate the links. I still do think that my suggestions above to make things clearer for newbies like me would be helpful. But I’m also seeing more info that is helping me, so thank you for that.

    Holy cow, there’s so much to go through it’s overwhelming. I’m bouncing around and getting confused by info overload. Trying to focus on one thing at a time but there seems to be SO MUCH on each page of documentation that my brain starts to short circuit, LOL. Trying to pick it apart and find what I need. Slowly. I’ll continue to post my questions as I figure out what I need help with.

    Thanks again! Your links are helpful.

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