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Community Forums › Forums › Archived Forums › Design Tips and Tricks › Multisite static homepage won’t change template on subsites

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Tagged: custom template, multisite, parallax

  • This topic has 4 replies, 2 voices, and was last updated 7 years, 2 months ago by josefinsund.
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  • December 24, 2015 at 4:33 am #174713
    josefinsund
    Member

    Hello everyone, I'm having a problem with wp multisite and I'm using the parallax theme. I'm trying to make the home page of my sub sites the landing page template.

    But every time I choose the specific page as my home page on settings it automatically changes to the default template (with header etc). How do I choose a specific template as my home page on wp sub sites?

    Can anyone point me towards the right direction? It would be a great christmas gift:)

    Cheers,

    Josefin

    December 24, 2015 at 5:31 am #174722
    James
    Participant

    Hi there

    yeh i don't think it will do what you ask

    i have wp multisite too, and just did a quick test with the same results as you

    i'm thinking that because your main site is "the main site" the settings simply don't apply

    it only works on the sites you create (subs)

    December 24, 2015 at 7:25 am #174739
    josefinsund
    Member

    Hmm I'm a little confused, I'm the one creating the sub sites. Can't figure out why the landing page template won't stick when I choose it as my front page on my sub-sites.

    December 24, 2015 at 1:22 pm #174759
    James
    Participant

    hi there

    what you need to do is delete the front-page.php from the theme on your sub sites, this will solve the issue.

    this has been tested and works.

    if your using the same theme for both the main site and the subs, and the main site requires the front-page.php

    then simply make a copy of the theme and rename it (be sure to change the name in the functions.php, style.css as well as the subfolder name)

    so then you will have 2 themes

    one for the main and one for the subs (without the front-page.php)

    WP Multi doesn't work exactly the same way a stand alone site does.

    December 29, 2015 at 3:06 am #175036
    josefinsund
    Member

    Great advice, thank you Jamie!

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