Main content disappears when set as front page.

Modifying frontpage is something Im interested in too.

Running into the same issue. Whenever I set a node or a view (it is not just limited to nodes) as front page through Site Information > Default front page, the content disappears. Once I remove the node/view as front page, the content is visible again.

Tracked this down to this commit.

I tried to find more information through Gerrit, but let's just say that after our first 5 minutes, Gerrit and I decided we are never going to be friends, since no matter what I throw at the his search box (SHA1, commiter, partial commit message, ID 8562), I end up with zero results...

Without access to the original ticket, I don't know what the reason for the change is, but I do know that removing themes/commerce_kickstart_theme/preprocess/preprocess-page.inc (only has 3 lines of actual code) fixes the issue for me.

Sorry, pasted the wrong filename in #3, try commenting/removing profiles/commerce_kickstart/themes/omega_kickstart/preprocess/preprocess-page.inc

This is not fixed yet.
We want to remove the preprocess function and hide the block on the frontpage via block visibility rules.

I'm using a sub them of omega-kickstart and having still problems with the front page. After deleting the preprocess function I can see the view I created, but the theme is corrupt. The ID "region-content" disappeared from front page and the floating of my theme doesn't work anymore. I'm not sure, but I think it has something to do with commerce_kickstart_merchandising plugin.

Hi guys, pls have another look at this issue. It is very annoying that product list does not show if you set the site frontpage to products/all. I am on RC4.

I have the same problem, I need to put a View in the frontpage, but this nice theme does not display it.

here is a gerrit commit for this : https://code.drupalcommerce.org/#/c/563/
Disables only the default system message for the default frontpage on Commerce Kictsart theme and change the blocks visibility, only for the "node" path not .

it also uses the patch for the Omega Kickstart patch : #1819906-5: If setting alternatiive default frontpage - all content disappears

Merged.

Can confirm that dev version of kickstart dated 14th Dec solves this issue. Really could do with a rc5 commit asap given that this is not really a priority normal issue. Not being able to set the frontpage is pretty major.

We are tagging a 2.0 tomorrow.

promoting content to frontpage default /node in 2.2 still doesn't show up. If we use the /frontpage view and use that instead all promoted content shows up.

Promoting content to frontpage from article content type (recreated that) has no issues in showing up. Not tested products but basic pages cannot be promoted to frontpage. Stands to reason really though considering that a single page is precicely that. Showing a list of basic pages on the frontpage isn't logical. One page with many containing articles.

May it suggest re-introducing the article content type into kickstart2 for this purpose?

You are free to create that content type yourself. It makes no sense for Kickstart to include it if it's not doing anything with it.

structure > views > enable frontpage view. Then on basic pages set "promote to frontpage" on promotion settings (in the tab area of the form).

#24 answered in #21 - "You are free to create that content type yourself. It makes no sense for Kickstart to include it if it's not doing anything with it."

I disagree with this decision to remove the article content type for the reasons your running into now and many more people may run into.

On the other side the project does say kickstart as in helping commerce to get started on drupal so there is nothing stopping anyone (like I did) just adding it back.

I'd have been tempted to just leave the default drupal content types as they are.

Some ground rules when you create your own content type -

By default they are promoted to front page, that will show up in your home page which will result in spilling things here and there.

Secondly, this is not a commerce kickstart issue. If you want to set your homepage - there are two options
#1. install pages module and then design your own custom tpl file and paste it within commerce_kickstart/profile/themes/template/page--front.tpl.php or within your sites/all/themes/commerce_kickstart/templates/page--<>.tpl.php
#2 - Create a view and then paste the same tpl file as mentioned in the above folder.

"Main content disappears when set as front page." is the issue and i think this is fixed.

Thanks for your efforts, but other/new issues should be created for the other problems with the frontpage (regarding broken layout or bad display, tabs missing, etc).

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