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I'm using the Enterprise Pro theme and followed the theme setup guidelines but the "Read More" button on my home page does not work. On my website, it just seems to just re-load the same page showing the 210 character snippet. On the demo theme, when you click "Read More" it correctly loads the entire page so you can read the rest of the content.
At the time of this post, I still have lorem ipsum dummy content on the pages, but there is more than enough text, so if "Read More" is clicked, it should load a page with five paragraphs of text. I cannot figure out what I've done wrong. It looks like I've followed the theme setup correctly, and a quick Google search does not seem to help find an answer.
The Genesis "Featured Page" widget is used in the "Home - Top" area. The issue may not be with the Enterprise Pro theme - it might be with the widget itself. But, I cannot see where there is a problem.
Thank you in advance for any help or suggestions!
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I just wanted to add... I tried using a different page (like the contact page) instead of the home page, and it worked! For some reason, it will not work with the home page. The three widgets at the bottom also use the Featured Page and work flawlessly. No idea why the one at the top of the page is not working.
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Ok, I think I figured it out. For the benefit of others who may run into this problem: It seems that there must be a "home" page but the content can actually be a totally blank page. As long as there is a "home" page in Reading>Static Page (select the home page from the drop down menu). The little blurb at the side is actually the REAL home page. But, it has a longer page name because that displays as the title for that blurb on the right.
When set up this way, by default the home page shows up as it should with the featured image and the short blurb on the right with the "Read More" button. When that button is clicked, it loads the full version of that page.
Now, if someone clicks "Home" OR the website name in the header, they both bring you to the pseudo home page, which is really the featured page with the short blurb and the "Read More" button. This is the way the Enterprise Pro demo theme is set up, and probably should be, for consistency. That way if a site visitor is on another page and wants to return to the home page, he or she would probably expect clicking on the site title in the header and the "home" button to bring him/her there. If the "home" button showed the full page instead of the abbreviated version with "Read More" it could be confusing and disorienting to the site visitor. I think.
Does this make sense? Before I mark this as resolved, I wouldn't mind hearing from someone more experienced if this is intended way it should work.
Side note: I understand there is another more robust widget available called "Featured Pages Extras" that has a lot more functionality. I opted to stick with the basic one since this is the first time I'm using this theme, and I'm still sharpening my WordPress and Genesis skills, so I figured it would be best to follow the demo theme tutorial. Only it would have been nice if they could have warned us, or better explained the trick to making it work on the home page!
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