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My site is experiencelabs.org. The attached image is the splash page on my old site. I have made a new site live but this page keeps loading as the homepage. When you click enter, it takes you to the new site (this page originally sent users to /about-us) and when you click home in the menu, it takes you back to the splash page.

Note:

  • The home page that should be loading is marked as the site's home page and has a /home slug
  • This landing page is nowhere in my site's design and is not parked in the not linked section
  • I'm not seeing this page anywhere in the correct home page's custom code
  • I have tried setting another page as the homepage and it still happens

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10 hours ago, k_hold said:

The home page that should be loading is marked as the site's home page and has a /home slug

Have you changed the homepage? Go into the new home page settings and click on "set as homepage"

10 hours ago, k_hold said:

This landing page is nowhere in my site's design and is not parked in the not linked section

Since it is loading, it must be somewhere in the pages menu (since it is set as the homepage it won't be deleteable and will have a little house symbol next to it).

10 hours ago, k_hold said:
  • I have tried setting another page as the homepage and it still happens

How have you tried to set other pages as the homepage?

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If you have gone into the page settings and clicked on this button "SET AS HOMEPAGE" and that doesn't change the homepage that loads, then you have an error that cannot be solved on the forum and you need to contact Squarespace support directly to get your website fixed.

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On 2/22/2023 at 1:07 AM, k_hold said:

The attached image is the splash page on my old site. I have made a new site live but this page keeps loading as the homepage.

It looks like the domain http://www.experiencelabs.org/ is in the process of transitioning from your old Squarespace 7.0 site at https://karen-hold-9xf4.squarespace.com/ to the new one at https://emu-panda-y4y7.squarespace.com/.

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It takes time for domain changes to happen so if you check back in a few hours, it should work correctly. That said, you can contact Squarespace if you are concerned. They can do things that forum users can’t, like clearing the site cache.

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5 hours ago, k_hold said:

It doesn't look like SS even has support?

You can contact Squarespace Customer Care by using this link. Answer the questions about your request and then scroll down to the bottom of the page where you should find these two links:

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Ok I fixed this myself and I'm putting the solution here for anyone else. I needed to actually unpublish the old site by going into settings --> site availability and turning it from public to private. That was it.

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