New to WordPress over here and I cannot for the life of me figure out what I am doing wrong to cause this issue.
I have a homepage and 2 additional pages, one called Testimonials and one called Contact.
For some reason, my Testimonials page looks exactly like the Contact page, even though in Edit Mode, it looks nothing like it. Additionally, I keep pressing the Save button on my Testimonials page and it doesn’t update the time the page was updated. It still says an hour ago, even though there’s been like 12 updates since then.
I tried completely trashing my Contact page and making a copy of the Testimonial page, and even making a whole new page and neither helped the problem.
What is going on here? How do I make the page I see in Edit Mode actually show up when visiting the page instead of showing the other page for some reason?
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Screenshots and your URL would be very helpful.
Check your menu settings, you may have two menu items pointing to the same page.
Check what theme you are using… Are you editing a page or the theme?
Sounds like the consensus is that you were editing a Full Site Editor page template instead of a legitimate page. If so you’ve fallen victim to one of the more egregious anti-patterns I’ve noticed with that editor.
It’s lost common with the TwentyTwentyFour blog template, which looks exactly like the default homepage. But there are other templates as well.
The Gutenberg team in general needs to get their UI act, same with the FSE team in particular. They’re all so obsessed with “distraction free” editing they leave out all kinds of *obvious* context markers and breadcrumbs.
(Note: their argument seems to be that everything is perfectly obvious and intuitive once you get the hang of it. But you can say the same thing about the vim editor, court stenography machines, and Latin. Real UIs need clear interfaces and obvious context indicators.)