Yoast Seo + Home Page
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Hi All,
I'm using Studiopress Genesis Enterprise child theme in Wordpress + InstantWP + Yoast SEO.
I have created a standard home page (see image) along with bespoke pages
My question is this: When I select Pages | All Pages ... I cannot see the home page and therefore cannot optimise the home page with Yoast SEO.
What am I doing wrong?
Thanks Mark
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This is done automatically by Wordpress.
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Thank you for your responses.
Based on the logic of creating a page called 'Home' and setting the template file, I believe the Canonical URL would also need to be defined as: www.mydomain.co.uk
Thanks Mark
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You'll need to create a custom Menu by going to Appearance -> Menus. Name the menu, add the appropriate pages, and choose the theme location.
If you don't do this, by default WordPress creates a menu using all "Pages" and there is no way around it.
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Hey Jon,
Quick question... I have the same issue and have done as you said, although the Home page that I have created is now on the top level navigation bar... Is there away for this 'tab' to be invisible?
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The "Home" page doesn't need to be named home. Check in Settings > Reading to see if you already have one set. f you don't, your theme files will dictate what is generated for your home page.
As Jon stated above, create a new Page (perhaps call it Home to avoid confusion). Add your content there, and/or set your template file. Then go into Settings > Reading, check "A static page" and select Home from the Front page dropdown.
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That image is the Menu admin where you set up navigation menus. It looks like you've set up a custom Home menu item/link, not a page.
Just create a new page called Home if it isn't under All Pages and publish it. Then in Settings > Reading set it to be the static front page.
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