Every time I edit my page everything disappears.

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  simplefamilyfaith · Member · Jan 30, 2023 at 3:13 am

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  I’ve spent hours trying to create my homepage site. I change the header and footer. I add images and a tagline. I get it exactly how I want it. Then I click save. But when I go visit the actual site everything has gone back to how it was in the template. None of my edits or background colors are there. I don’t understand.

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  staff-95percentghost · Staff · Jan 30, 2023 at 2:00 pm

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  Hi there, do I understand that you’re making changes in the Site Editor at Appearance > Editor (beta)?

  If so, do you also have a dedicated front/home page set up, which can show the custom content you’ve been adding to your site layout?

  There’s some information here regarding the Site Editor:
  https://en.support.wordpress.com/site-editor/

  This is a guide to help you set up a dedicated front page:
  https://support.wordpress.com/pages/front-page/

  We also have a series of webinars that you may find useful, including the difference between the Site Editor, and the page/post editor (which works similarly but affects different things):
  https://wordpress.com/webinars/site-editor-vs-page-editor/#watchnow

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  simplefamilyfaith · Member · Jan 30, 2023 at 3:59 pm

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  I am trying to get my front/home page set up but that’s the part that’s not working. I have followed all of the steps in all the videos and webinars. I create that page to exactly how I want it and click save. When I go to visit the actual page none of the work I designed is there. So I go back and redo it and it keeps happening over and over again. The front/home page that I have designed is not showing up.

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  supernovia · Staff · Jan 30, 2023 at 9:59 pm

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  @simplefamilyfaith can you clarify whether you’re working here on the index template, or whether you’re editing this specific page?

  What I’m seeing in the site editor’s index template is close to what I see on the site. The global styles require an upgrade (there should be a message about that when you try them), but everything else looks right to me.

  If you’d like that one specific page to be the front page of the site, here’s how you can change that.

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