Setting a homepage

Choose what page appears for visitors when they land on your site.

Last updated January 12, 2024

Your homepage is the page that displays when someone first visits your site. You can set any type of page on your site as your homepage.

Visitors can return to your homepage by clicking your site title or logo.

Note

Collection pages, like blog pages, store pages, and portfolio pages, can be set as your home page, but not individual collection items, like blog posts, products, or portfolio subpages. Dropdowns, links, and pages within index pages can't be set as the homepage. 

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Check your current homepage

To check your current homepage:

  1. Open the Pages panel.
  2. Your current homepage has a home icon next to its title.
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Set a new homepage

Tip

If you haven't created the page you want as your new homepage, first add the new page, then return to this guide.

To set a new homepage:

  1. In the Pages panel, hover over the page's title and click the gear icon .
  2. In page settings, scroll down and click Set as Homepage.
  3. Click Confirm in the message that appears.
  4. Click Save.
  5. Your new homepage will have a home icon next to its title. The old homepage will remain in the same place in the Pages panel, but won't have the home icon next to it.

Next steps

After setting a new homepage, you can:

  • Delete the old homepage or rename it in page settings.
  • Click and drag the new homepage to the top of your main navigation so it's the first link in your navigation menu.
  • Hide your homepage from navigation menus by dragging it to the Not linked section of the pages panel.
  • For more help, visit Adding pages to your navigation. If your homepage is a cover page, learn more about this in Cover pages in version 7.0.

Troubleshooting

Error message: We couldn’t find the page you were looking for

If your domain can’t direct to an active homepage, visiting your site might lead to your Not Found / 404 Page message instead of your homepage. The default message looks like this:

"We couldn't find the page you were looking for. This is either because:

  • There is an error in the URL entered in your web browser. Please check the URL and try again.
  • The page you are looking for has been moved or deleted..."

If you set a custom 404 error, you'll see your custom message instead.

There are a few reasons why this might happen:

1. Your homepage is disabled

Check if your homepage is disabled by opening the Pages panel. If the page title next to the home icon is light gray instead of black, it’s disabled and causing the error message to appear.

To fix this, temporarily set a different page as your homepage. Then, enable the previous homepage and set it back as your homepage.

2. You're previewing a template and deleted your live template's homepage (version 7.0 only)

On version 7.0 sites, editing a template preview and switching templates sometimes leads to issues with homepages.

If you’re previewing a template, you may have set a new homepage while editing your preview template and then deleted the page set as the homepage on your live site. Or, you might have installed a new template without setting a new homepage.

To resolve the issue, make your preview template live or restore the deleted homepage, depending on which template you'd like to use.

To learn more about previewing and switching templates, visit Switching templates. To check if you're previewing a template, visit What's my site's version and template?

The Set As Homepage button is missing (version 7.0 only)

Pages within an index can't be set as a homepage, so the Set as homepage option won't be visible in their page settings.

  • To set the page as your homepage, drag it out of the index page first.
  • After you've made a page your homepage, you can't drag it into an index.

Note

If a page in an index is already set as the homepage and you drag it out of the index, you won't be able to drag it back in until you set a different page as the homepage.

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