Emil wrote:

Yes, if you copy the content of front-page.php and paste into (newly created) home.php. Please make sure that you are doing this in a Child Theme. http://themeid.com/forum/topic/3/use-child-theme-for-personal-customizations/

home.php does not exist so that should be created first.

Thanks for using Shell,
Emil

Devilboy3007 wrote:

I really like the cleanness of Shell Lite, I'm wondering if there is anyway to get rid of the default home page and replace it with a static page. I tried in Settings --> Reading but I had no such luck.

Emil wrote:

Can you please provide your URL? I can check.

gesman wrote:

Doesn't work for me. Here's what i did:

- Brand new WP install, latest version, no caching plugins.

- I downloaded and activated child theme from here:
http://themeid.com/public/shell-child-theme.zip

- I copied /themes/shell-lite/front-page.php to
/themes/shell-child-theme/home.php as instructed

- Settings->Reading show static page, Saved.

Reloaded site - still no change on front page.

Gleb

Emil wrote:

Yes, if you copy the content of front-page.php and paste into (newly created) home.php. Please make sure that you are doing this in a Child Theme. http://themeid.com/forum/topic/3/use-child-theme-for-personal-customizations/

home.php does not exist so that should be created first.

Thanks for using Shell,
Emil

Emil wrote:

Can you please provide your URL? I can check.

gesman wrote:

Doesn't work for me. Here's what i did:

- Brand new WP install, latest version, no caching plugins.

- I downloaded and activated child theme from here:
http://themeid.com/public/shell-child-theme.zip

- I copied /themes/shell-lite/front-page.php to
/themes/shell-child-theme/home.php as instructed

- Settings->Reading show static page, Saved.

Reloaded site - still no change on front page.

Gleb

Emil wrote:

Yes, if you copy the content of front-page.php and paste into (newly created) home.php. Please make sure that you are doing this in a Child Theme. http://themeid.com/forum/topic/3/use-child-theme-for-personal-customizations/

home.php does not exist so that should be created first.

Thanks for using Shell,
Emil

gesman wrote:

http://demo.precidia.com/store2/

Emil wrote:

No need for credentials, just URL will do

Emil wrote:

Can you please provide your URL? I can check.

Emil wrote:

What needs to be on home page?

Emil wrote:

Thanks, I am looking right now to both.

gesman wrote:

http://demo.precidia.com/store2/

Emil wrote:

If home.php does not work, the only option I see is to disable front-page.php file and in that case dynamic static page will work. As I mentioned earlier front-page.php is the static page we're talking about. home.php is deprecated because home.php name was causing issues with some servers, this was done by the WordPress itself.

Login to your FTP, locate /shell-lite/front-page.php and just add .hold on the end i.e. front-page.php.hold or delete this file completely. This will however be overwritten in next update and for right now I don't have another alternative.

When front-page.php is not used, index.php will come in as fallback and you can control that.

Emil

gesman wrote:

Right now "Sample Page".
I just want to have an ability to set front page to any static page I want via
Settings->Reading ...

Emil wrote:

What needs to be on home page?

<?php 
if ( get_query_template( 'front-page' ) )
       include( get_query_template( 'index' ) );
?>

Emil wrote:

This is on my todo list, the idea was for users to use the Theme as the Landing Page, but we also need to be sure that front-page.php can be disabled somehow. One of the future releases will have that for sure, not sure when yet.

Let me try few things and if something useful comes up I will release an immediate update and note this topic as well.

Cheers,
Emil

gesman wrote:

Great thank you.
So real solution is to kill ./shell-lite/front-page.php
I wonder if it's possible to add something into child theme directory to enable default dynamic static page ability while maintaining upgradeability.

Emil wrote:

If home.php does not work, the only option I see is to disable front-page.php file and in that case dynamic static page will work. As I mentioned earlier front-page.php is the static page we're talking about. home.php is deprecated because home.php name was causing issues with some servers, this was done by the WordPress itself.

Login to your FTP, locate /shell-lite/front-page.php and just add .hold on the end i.e. front-page.php.hold or delete this file completely. This will however be overwritten in next update and for right now I don't have another alternative.

When front-page.php is not used, index.php will come in as fallback and you can control that.

Emil

gesman wrote:

Thank you Emil.
This will do!

Gleb