Front page empty

[august VII]

Hello!

This is a really great theme!

However, I played around with it and run into a problem – my front page remains empty on the first visit, but once I click on the site name, it appears. Then again, after a refresh it's gone. How do solve it?

Thanks for answering in advance, as I said, this theme is really cool.

Cheers,
August

[arminunruh]

Hey thanks!
Hm did you set the frontpage correctly in the customizer? Go to customize -> frontpage and try to set the frontpage again and see if that works :O

[august VII]

Hey!

Thanks for a quick reply. Interestingly, there is no such option in my customize panel. Hmm, what am I missing?

Also, I noticed that in the project section this is going on:

and all the projects are under posts.

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[arminunruh]

Yeah, I need to code that differently. Right now the third backend menu item is called projects, but when u install Jetpack, jetpack becomes the third menu item and is renamed ^^

Ok try this: Go to the customizer, click on your site title / logo. Then the frontpage setting should appear.

[august VII]

Well it didn't work, but I got it finally. I had to deactivate the theme and change front page display settings to latest posts under reading settings (was checked as static in the previous theme).

[KIM]

Thanks august VII,
it worked for me as well. Perfect & Thanks for your help.
Stef

[sam]

Hey there! Thanks for your theme, it looks really cool! However, i've been playing around with it for hours, but I can't get it to show my pages... The only thing that shows up is my menu. I've tried different things, i've been to "customize", "front page" and i've set the page that i'd like as a front page... nothing changes... I've also tried doing the exact same thing as in your video and create a new project, with my text and header image in it, then putting it in a category, but the "home" category doesn't exist. Only "work". So i created a "home" category. That doesn't seem to work either! Any ideas?
I was thinking it might be my header image (it's pretty large, something like 1920px), i've replaced it with a tiny image, it still doesn't work... Help!

[sam]

That's all i get...

[arminunruh]

Hey sam! Have you tried the steps in troubleshooting here?
http://laytheme.com/troubleshooting.html

Maybe it works if you go to permalinks, make sure "postname" is selected and click save.

[johanna]

Hi,
´i fear i ran into a similar problem as august VII: although first the front page with the project thumbs are showing up fine, but when clicking on the logo (site title image) all the project thumbs disappear. i have the a menu structure as a left over from the theme i tried before, and the "project" - page is set as my front page, i deleted the post page, because no need for that. Now, do i really have to switch themes again to get frontpage options in customize? :O and lose all the work on the projects i've done so far? isn't there some work around?
thank you for any help!

[arminunruh]

Hey,
Can u send me a link please?

Hm there should be the frontpage option in "customize" no matter if you used another theme before or not.

If you switch to another theme your lay theme projects and layouts will not get lost.

[johanna]

Hi Armin, thank you for your response; the link is www.chamozolana.com/lanueva

[arminunruh]

Hey johanna. There is an error in your custom javascript:

jQuery(document).ready(function(){

  jQuery(window).resize(handleResize);
  handleResize();

  function scaleToParent(elem){
    var $elem = jQuery(elem);
    var $parent = jQuery($elem).parent();

    var pW = $parent.width();
    var pH = $parent.height();

    var eW = $elem.width();
    var eH = $elem.height();

    var factor = pW/eW;

    $elem.css({
      'transform': 'scale('+factor+')',
      'transform-origin': 'left top',
      '-webkit-transform': 'scale('+factor+')',
      '-webkit-transform-origin': 'left top',
      '-moz-transform': 'scale('+factor+')',
      '-moz-transform-origin': 'left top'
    });

    $parent.css({
    	'height': $elem.outerHeight(true)*factor+'px'
    });
  }

Should end with:
);

Thats why theres an error

[johanna]

Hi Armin, that doesn't seem to help, deleting the curly brace or deleting the whole java script or the whole plugin – no difference. actually in firefox it works, but not in chrome nor safari or ie.
Please note: i moved my site to www.chamozolana.com
Thank you for your help, Johanna

[arminunruh]

Hey johanna,
Can you please try this:
Go to Customize -> Frontpage.
Set the frontpage to a category. Save. Then please set the frontpage to that page that you have as your frontpage now.

It seems that your logo is linked to an empty category page, but the frontpage that you set loads another page.
Maybe the steps above fix that. If that doesn't work can you please send me the login to your wordpress admin via chat?

[johanna]

Hi Armin,

as mentioned above, frontpage options are missing from my customize menu

[arminunruh]

Hey johanna, can you please send me your wordpress admin login data via chat?

[elvin]

The frontpage option also seems to be missing from my menu. Any idea?

[arminunruh]

Hey, yea we had this problem with the other site too. What I did was deactivate lay theme there and switch to another theme. Then with that theme activated another frontpage option showed up, I set it to the default and switched back to lay theme.

[elvin]

That worked, thanks!