If you’ve arrived at this post, it’s probably because your wordpress site is driving you nuts. Suddenly, your static front page only shows up when you’re logged in. When you’re not logged in, and you type in the address of your wordpress site, the static front page doesn’t load. The page that shows up to visitors isn’t the one you’ve indicated in your settings.
I don’t usually post about wordpress issues, but as a writer and small press publisher who does all of my web design myself, I deal with wordpress issues on a regular basis. (I know, I know: hire someone. However, I like to get under the hood and see how things work, and just hiring someone to do it means a learning opportunity lost). The static front page problem had me stumped, and I spent two full work days trying to figure it out, reading support documentation for my wordpress theme, uninstalling plugins, changing themes, resubmitting my google site index: you name it. I even tried to mess with functions.php and other files, but nothing worked.
Finally, I came upon this post in the wordpress support forums. Because the problem is so difficult to figure out, and because this solution worked beautifully and got my correct front page up and running immediately, and because the solution was buried in the support forums and not too easy to find, I’m posting it here. If your static front page is broken, this may very well help. Please note that I am not a wordpress expert. This solution was presented by Jackie McBride at wordpress.org, who credits inmotionhosting.com for the fix. It takes just a couple of minutes to implement, and voila, your wordpress front page will show up as needed. Thank you, Jackie and inmotionhosting!
Jackie McBride
Member
Posted 9 months ago #You might need to reactivate the plugin for the following to work. Credit is given to
http://www.inmotionhosting.com/support/edu/wordpress/recommended-wordpress-plugins/clearing-cache-in-wordpress“Step 1.Log into the WordPress Dashboard
Step 2.
Setting WP Super Cache
Hover over Settings, then click WP Super Cache
Step 3.
Delete cache WP Super Cache
On the WP Super Cache Settings page, click Delete Cache
Once you are done clearing your WordPress cache, you should see any recent changes that you published. The caching plugin should then cache the latest version of your page when the site is visited again.”
So, I did this just as Jackie outlined here. I installed the WP Super Cache plugin and deleted my cache. I logged out to check if my front page was working. And voila, there it was. The problem seems to arise when you delete the WP Super Cache plugin. So once it’s installed, you may be better off leaving it be.
Good luck! I hope this helps. For any other wordpress issues, please go to wordpress.org/support.