Homepage Visual builder redirects to homepage URL

Hey Guillaume91,

I haven't encountered this before, I'm afraid.

One thing I'd do though, is check for anywhere that you're redirecting to a canonical version of the homepage, e.g. from "https://yoursite.com/" (with the final slash) to "https://yoursite.com" (without the final slash). A redirection such as that might be dropping the URL parameters that Divi (et_fb=1) that Divi uses to indicate the visual builder should be used. I know the redirection plugin I use has the option do specify what to do with the URL parameters (e.g. ignore them, pass them through to the final page, etc). In this case you'd want to pass the parameters through so that the visual builder is still triggered.

Other than that, I'd suggest narrowing it down (if you haven't already) by disabling plugins one at a time (starting with the redirections plugin) to see where the redirect is coming from. If it's the redirections plugin you could then go down the route of individually disabling rules until the culprit is found. Also check in your site's .htaccess file to see if there are any homepage redirects in there.

 

You're welcome, Guillaume91.

Yeah, safe mode should be the same as disabling all plugins. I guess pay particular attention to the .htaccess file in that case as there aren't many other places where a redirect could be hiding.

I'm using this redirection plugin:

https://wordpress.org/plugins/redirection/

One possible workaround in the meantime might be to temporarily set a different page as the homepage then edit your (former) homepage before setting it back as the actual homepage. You could perhaps creates an "undergoing maintenance" page to use for this.

Good luck with it!

 

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