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Homepage Control

Description

Using Homepage Control, any theme which uses a “homepage” (or other) hook to display components on a homepage, just got better. Re-order or disable any of the homepage components added by your theme, and control the display and order of any function hooked on to the “homepage” hook.

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Usage

Once activated, a “Homepage Control” item will display in the Theme Customizer ( Appearance > Customizer ).

Visiting this screen will display a table of the possible homepage components, with options for re-ordering them, or disabling individual components.

Once done, click the “Save Changes” button, to commit your new component order into the system.

Screenshots

  • The Homepage Control administration screen.

Installation

Installing “Homepage Control” can be done either by searching for “Homepage Control” via the “Plugins > Add New” screen in your WordPress dashboard, or by using the following steps:

  1. Download the plugin via WordPress.org.
  2. Upload the ZIP file through the “Plugins > Add New > Upload” screen in your WordPress dashboard.
  3. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
  4. Visit the “Appearance > Customizer” section, select “Homepage Control”. There you can select the components you’d like to display, and in which order.

FAQ

No components show up in the administration area. Is my theme broken?

Not at all. This simply means your theme doesn’t support the “homepage” action hook, which is a method of adding components to a homepage design.

Please consult your theme developer if you have further queries about customising your homepage.

What happens if I switch themes? Do I lose my settings?

Not at all. 🙂 If you switch themes, Homepage Control will remember the homepage component settings for each theme you apply changes to, making switching themes a breeze.

How do I contribute?

We encourage everyone to contribute their ideas, thoughts and code snippets. This can be done by forking the repository over at GitHub.

Reviews

July 4, 2020
Thanks for this plugin, i was not able to remove the products from homepage (actually they appeared twice at me since i "renamed" the product categories) Extremely useful plugin!
April 22, 2020
Great Plugin. Works well. No issues and have used it with storefront theme for some years now. Check your theme compatability befor install as i have had issues with different themes.
November 11, 2018
I really needed a way to modify the storefront theme in as little time as possible. I happened to stumble upon it and was up and running in less than 5 minutes. Bravo.
August 6, 2018
one of the best plugin and its working great with storefront theme keep it up guys
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Contributors & Developers

“Homepage Control” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.

Contributors

“Homepage Control” has been translated into 8 locales. Thank you to the translators for their contributions.

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Changelog

2.0.3

  • 2018-02-21
  • PHP 7 fix for count() usage on arrays.

2.0.2

  • 2016-08-24
  • Minor tweaks to customizer control.

2.0.1

  • 2015-06-01
  • Make sure only components that actually exist are outputted to the customizer control (props valendesigns).
  • Hide by default components added after the initial setup.

2.0.0

  • 2015-04-28
  • Removed custom admin page and moved Homepage Control to the WordPress Customizer in Appearance > Customizer.

1.0.1

  • 2014-11-21
  • Improved handling of functions hooked in via classes.

1.0.0

  • 2014-03-18
  • Initial release. Woo!