Penscratch 2 – changing physical address

dcwebdev · Member · Apr 12, 2021 at 3:13 pm
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The Contact section on my site has a placeholder address, but I can’t figure out how to change it to my city and state. I’ve been through all the options in the editor; it’s not part of the contact page.

Link: https://lmswrites.wordpress.com/

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anastas10s · Member · Apr 12, 2021 at 4:35 pm
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@dcwebdev Hi there,

I can’t figure out how to change it to my city and state

That would by editing the details of that widget:
https://wordpress.com/support/widgets/contact-info/

Hope this helps, let us know how it went!
dcwebdev · Member · Apr 12, 2021 at 5:03 pm
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The only widgets in use are the sidebar and footer ones.
anastas10s · Member · Apr 13, 2021 at 6:31 am
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@dcwebdev Exactly that. So within those widgets in use for the footer, you will see the one with the placeholder address which you can customize with your details.

Hope this helps a bit further, let us know how it goes!
justjennifer · Member · Apr 13, 2021 at 10:00 am
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Hi folks, I hope you don’t mind me adding to the conversation here.

@dcwebdev looking at your home page, it looks like you previously had an older, default theme (maybe when you set up your site?) and then switched to Penscratch2. If this is the case, you might have set a Static Front Page as your site’s front page.

If you want to keep that page as your homepage, head to your Pages dashboard and open the page titled HOME for editing. Once the page is open in the Editor, you should be able to change the contact information displayed there.

Again, let us know how that goes.
anastas10s · Member · Apr 13, 2021 at 1:32 pm
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@justjennifer Great insight, I’ll keep it in mind for future reference.

By the way, if there is any way that I can also discover details about a previous theme in use -as a forum member- do let me know, please.
dcwebdev · Member · Apr 13, 2021 at 1:46 pm
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That worked, thanks Jennifer!
justjennifer · Member · Apr 13, 2021 at 4:47 pm
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@dcwebdev Glad that helped. You’re welcome.

@anastas10s there isn’t really. You’ll want to ask the original poster and they can find that info in their jetpack activity dashboard if changing themes was within the last 20 actions they took.

In this case, I remembered that the frontpage layout on @dcwebdev’s site was one of the layouts available for a while when first setting up a new WordPress.com site. It’s no longer available AFAIK.

Regardless, you should be able to see if a site is using a static front page by looking at the page and then checking the page source. Hope that helps.

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