No GD-Home Page

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  • February 21, 2016 at 9:10 pm #125597

    vicki
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    I have a Home page that I created and had unticked the setting under GD > Design for “Set geodirectory home page as home”. I’ve recently updated the software and see this is deprecated, so I selected my home page (named home), but the GD Home page now displays instead of the home page I created. Looking at other threads it looks like there should be a “GD Home” page but I don’t see one. I went to GD Tools and it says there *is* a GD Home page, so I’m confused. I expected there would be my home page, named “Home” in the dropdown menu and another named “GD Home” but that isn’t the case. If I want to build my own home page, how do I do it?

    February 21, 2016 at 10:34 pm #125620

    Guust
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    AT GD > Permalinks > GD Home Page > choose the Location page, the same as at “Location page”.
    Then at WP Settings > Reading > choose your custom WP page as your static home page.
    https://wpgeodirectory.com/docs/basic-installation/#home

    February 22, 2016 at 12:42 am #125633

    vicki
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    Post count: 76

    That’s the problem: there is no option for GD Home Page under GD > Permalinks. I’ve attached a screenshot but I can’t capture the whole pull down menu. As you can see there is “Home” which is the page I created, but no “GD Home Page”.

    February 22, 2016 at 9:48 am #125784

    Guust
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    At GD > Permalinks > GD Home Page > choose the Location page, NOT the GD Home page.
    Post your URL and admin details in a private reply if you need us to have a look.

    February 22, 2016 at 4:44 pm #125913

    Paolo
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    Hi,

    there is no need to set the location page as GD home as long as in Settings > Reading you set a different page as the home page.

    Just FYI.

    Thanks

    February 22, 2016 at 4:56 pm #125915

    vicki
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    February 22, 2016 at 5:35 pm #125919

    Paolo
    Site Admin
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    Hi,

    if you assign your custom home page as GD Home in GD Permalinks, you are instructing the plugin to use that page as the directory home page.

    To have a different custom home page, leave GD Home as GD home is GD Permalinks and select your custom home ONLY in Settings > Reading.

    Hope it’s clearer now.

    Let us know,

    Thanks

    February 22, 2016 at 6:31 pm #125929

    vicki
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    Post count: 76

    Once again, the problem is that I do not have an option “GD Home” in the pulldown menu under GD > Permalinks > GD Home or under Settings > Reading. One clearly does exist because it shows up on your page here: https://wpgeodirectory.com/docs/basic-installation/#home

    But again, I do not see an option “GD Home” in my installation.

    February 22, 2016 at 6:44 pm #125932

    Paolo
    Site Admin
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    That’s probably because you deleted it.

    In that case you can go to GD tools >> “GD Pages Check” and recreate it (I did it for you).

    You had your custom home also selected for the location page, so that was a problem too.

    Now everything should be set correctly.

    Let us know,

    Thanks

    February 22, 2016 at 7:13 pm #125937

    vicki
    Buyer
    Post count: 76

    Well, thank you. FYI, I ran GD Tools > GD Pages Check before I even posted, and the GD Home Page was listed as ok but obviously not visible. I don’t know why your running it worked, when it didn’t for me! Maybe a cache issue with WPEngine?

    In any case, it is all working now and it sure makes more sense when I can actually see the page and page choice! Thanks again.

    February 22, 2016 at 7:33 pm #125939

    Paolo
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    Post count: 31206

    You are welcome 🙂

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