Yoast Seo + Home Page

[Mark_Ch]

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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[driftingbass]

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.

[brad.s.knutson]

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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[david.smith.segarra]

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?

[brad.s.knutson]

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.

[Mark_Ch]

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

[driftingbass]

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