I am having issues with the Genesis Theme

Roger Marquez · Aug 4, 2021

Guys, I am currently working on a site that has no page created for the homepage and, still, has one.

The site is build using a child theme for the Genesis theme.

I can access the homepage but only through Appearance > Customization but I need to access it from the backend.

Thoughts?

whois1games · Aug 4, 2021

I think File Manager plugins will help in this case.

Roger Marquez · Aug 4, 2021

whois1games said:
I think File Manager plugins will help in this case.

I have access to the site´s core files through an FTP connection using FileZilla but...how?

I don´t have that much experience with this beyond editing the .htaccess file and pasting some code snippets inside the functions.php file.

RRunner · Aug 4, 2021

Not really 100% sure what you mean but...

A Genesis child theme with no homepage created, by default displays the latest posts.

To create a homepage do Page->New and create a new page called "homepage" or something. Then set it as the homepage under customize.

Or create a default homepage front-page.php in the child theme source files.

Details here:
https://wisdmlabs.com/blog/create-custom-homepage-genesis/
Is this the problem you were talking about?

Roger Marquez · Aug 4, 2021

RRunner said:
Not really 100% sure what you mean but...

I want to load the WP editor for the homepage in order to make some adjustments but I can´t find it.

RRunner said:
To create a homepage do Page->New and create a new page called "homepage" or something. Then set it as the homepage under customize.

Or create a default homepage front-page.php in the child theme source files.

Details here:
https://wisdmlabs.com/blog/create-custom-homepage-genesis/
Is this the problem you were talking about?

I don´t want to create a homepage, the site has a homepage I just can´t locate it in the backend > Pages tab.

RRunner said:
A Genesis child theme with no homepage created, by default displays the latest posts.

As a matter of fact, it does, the site is a food blog displaying category pages on the homepage.

RRunner · Aug 4, 2021

Roger Marquez said:
I don´t want to create a homepage, the site has a homepage I just can´t locate it in the backend > Pages tab.

Okay, as I said I wasn't 100% following your description.

Did you check the child theme source files for front-page.php?

It's not there by default. It would need to be created by a developer to make a custom front page.

Roger Marquez · Aug 4, 2021

RRunner said:
Did you check the child theme source files for front-page.php?

There´s in fact a front-page.php inside the wp-content > theme folder.

Funny, on the backend of the site under Appearance, I don´t see a "Theme Option" tab as with other themes.

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