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I found the Remove Widget Titles plugin, so I activated that one next. It tripled my page loading time, but the front page banner title is gone.

Jetpack activated with no problems.

Custom Newsletter Template caused the banner and call to action to disappear, so that was deactivated and deleted. I tested all the other plugins except 5 which remain deactivated because I am still not sure if I want to or need to utilize them. They are more for decor or personal ease, so not sure if I want them. Everything else is working just fine with the front page, so thank you so much for your help! Finally, I have the front page! Woo-hoo!

Ok, I just saw your response above, which I was waiting for. I will try your suggestions tomorrow, and let you know how it goes. Thanks.

I’m having problems with the front page again, now with the correct page loading with the banner. In experimenting with this, I created a page I titled as Any page I like with the same Template Sidebar only. While the static page was selected, under Front page, I selected My Front Page, and under Posts page, Home of Spirit was selected.

When I clicked the primary menu link for My Front Page, called Welcome, I got the front page listing Any page I like, Home of Spirit and My Front page.

Clicking the Home of Spirit link in the primary menu bar got me to the same page, which technically is the “My Front Page/Welcome” page.

I then changed the Front Page selection under the static page setting to Any page I like, and the pages switched places. Home of Spirit was still selected as the posts page, but when I clicked on the Welcome link in the primary menu bar, it brought me to the main blogroll page with the banner at the top. When I clicked Home of Spirit in the primary menu bar, then Any page I like appeared correctly as the front page should be appearing.

When I checked the links under this new setting, Any page I like has crossofpain.com; the “Welcome/My Front Page” page has http://crossofpain.com/my-front-page/; and the Home of Spirit has crossofpain.com.

I don’t understand why the links keep switching around. I deactivated quite a few plugins to try to see if I could figure out what was affecting this, but I may have to deactivate more. It was fine until I checked the reading settings earlier after communicating with you, and found them again on posts. Once I changed it back to My Front page, then these problems came up again, and I’m right back to where I started with this not working right at all.

I am putting the site back under maintenance mode again. This is ridiculous.

Ok. My site is http://crossofpain.com. Also, you should know that the text, “My Front Page” is showing up on the site.

Hi,

I have tried on 4 occasions to get back to you, but the universe of computer ish prevented me. Ok. To answer your questions:

“Are you wanting to create a static front page like the demo and have your blog inside your site? If so, what page template did you assign to the page and also, I’m assuming you have the pages set from the Reading settings in your WordPress?”

Yes, I want a static front page like the demo, and my blog inside the site. I’ve had this theme for a while on my old site, but never had the static front page. I want that on this new site.

The template I assigned to my front page is Template sidebars only.

Yes, I changed the setting in the Reading setting because it would not work the way it was supposed to under the customization settings. In that area, the setting is blog posts, and in the Reading setting, the setting is Static page.

“Jetpack and Display Widgets
If you are using Jetpack, it’s important to make sure you do not have any other plugin active that does this kind of function. With the Widget Visibility enabled, you want to make sure that when you are doing the settings on a widget, to make sure you are setting the widget to “Show” when you are selecting pages or other types of areas. Same goes for the “Hide” when selecting pages. This is often missed. So after doing this, you widgets are not showing on the pages you select to show them on?”

Your statement here is confusing. I shut off the Jetpack functionality for the widgets, because I initially had both on; yet still, the Display widget plugin is not giving me the desired affect your instructions indicated.

Your statement is confusing because you mention how “Show” and “Hide” are supposed to be used when selecting pages or other types of areas, but you don’t tell me which one is supposed to be used in this case, nor what pages or types of areas each apply to to make this work.

I didn’t miss that point when you first pointed it out. I went back and disabled that function in Jetpack, but the Display widget did not work, whether I selected “Show” and indicated the front page or if I selected “Hide” and indicated all other pages. It didn’t work either way.

Additionally, there were similar other options. There was “front”, as well as “front page” and “home”. This is why I had to change the labels for my home page, which is the blog roll, and the front page title, because I didn’t want it to say “Front page” on the actual front page.

I had to go into the customization side to change the “Front page” label so that the actual “front page” still existed. If I changed it in the page label itself, it would not work, and then I could not find it in the Display widget plugin list.

Similarly, I had to direct the home link to my page labelled “Spirit” because that is the home page. My site is divided into Spirit, Mind, and Body, the later two will be subdomains, with their own home/blogroll, so that distinction had to be made. But that point really had no affect on the situation, other than my need for the home-blogroll page to be linked to my menu bar under the word Spirit.

So the menu bar is working just fine with those name changes. However, I still cannot get the call to action to show up, nor the front page widgets that would be directing viewers to the sections of my site. That is the remaining problem. Even with the default page setting at Template sidebars only, none of those functions are working.

“What sidebar positions are you wanting to show a widget on and for what page?”

I don’t think the issue is regular sidebar widgets. The issue is that the Top 1-4 and the Call to Action are not even visible on my customization side, so despite my placing the text widgets in them per the instructions, none of them are visible.

I don’t know if they are supposed to be visible on the customization side, but it simply makes sense that they should, because how can I customize something that is not there. The only widgets that show up on that side of things are the “Blog Right Sidebar, Bottom 1-4, Banner, Breadcrumbs, Footer & Header Sidebar.”

I can add widgets to those, but no where else. If I’m supposed to be setting up that front page, shouldn’t the correct widgets be available in the customization side as well as the back office under widgets?

I put the text in just like the instructions said. I changed exactly what the instructions said to change. I put the ! in front of the text name to hide the text box name, and I checked and rechecked it. So do you want to see the code that I have with my changes? Thanks for the help.

Ok. I will try that. I think I downloaded it, then I ended up letting my web guy go and forgot about it. It also could be that I downloaded more than one plugin to send out tweets, and tried the other one first. I’m struggling to manage 3 sites, so I’m a bit absent minded. Let me see if I can get it set up in settings and I’ll let you know. Thanks.

Yes Joe, that is correct, however, I found out that the problem seemed to be coming from another plugin. I wish I could remember the name at the moment, but I already deactivated and deleted it, and the contactme plugin from all my sites. Apparently, it broke the theme on the one site, but the problem on that site seems to have fixed itself a day after I deleted the plugin.

However, there is a new issue on my main site that perhaps you can assist me with. I’m getting messages like this:

Deprecated TinyMCE API call: <target>.onInit.add(..)

I’ve gotten that one several times now, but I have no idea what this means or what it is trying to tell me is wrong. Do you know about this? Thanks so much.