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I just installed CiviCRM on a Wordpress site using the Platinum child theme (based on Genesis theme framework). While the back-end is mostly OK (a few issues with the menu bar sometimes being incomplete or not displayed at all), I cannot get a single front-end page to display. By 'front-page' I mean CiviCRM content embedded in the main website, such as event information and registration pages, contribution pages, etc.

What happens is that instead of the CiviCRM content, there just is the frontpage content. This happens whether this is a direct link to the page (ie. 'Manage event', 'Event Links', 'Live page'), or when the page is embedded in a post with shortcodes ('Add New Post', 'Add CiviCRM Public Pages'). When switching back to the default WordPress theme everything works as expected.

I have traced this to the fact that CiviCRM insert content on front-end pages using the 'the_content' filter (ie. add_filter('the_content', 'civicrm_wp_invoke'); ), but for some reason this filter is not called by the Genesis theme.

Would this be considered a CiviCRM bug (ie. we're using the wrong filter, or a filter instead of an action) or a Genesis framework bug? Is there a workaround for this situation?

I have tracked this issue down and resolved it. See: http://issues.civicrm.org/jira/browse/CRM-12131.

This is due to the fact that the WordPress integration assumes that the homepage for a website will contain at least one post. This was not true for my customer's website, which only contained a gallery slider.

The proposed change suggests a different filter to insert CiviCRM content in WordPress pages, with the added benefit of providing more flexibility for the end-user in controlling how the CiviCRM content is displayed through the use of a WordPress template.