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Wordpress blank home page

We installed a wordpress site

heartofdharma(dot)org

but our home page doesn't show up.

Tried changing themes and playing with the menu. All themes do the same thing. Tried working with all of the settings.

Really need to get this site up.

We are using this theme:

http://themeforest.net/item/dandelion-powerful-elegant-wordpress-theme/136628

What could be causing this?

Wordpress 3.3.1

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Are you even sure that theme supports a Page as the home page?  From looking at the Theme Forest demo it appears to be one of those widgetized index pages...everything done via Appearance | Widgets.
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Jason1178,

When I change the theme our home page still does not show up. Does that change your response?

Gnemi,

How do we check the apache error logs?

Also, I did a reinstall through

http://www.yoursite.com/wp-admin/update-core.php

with no luck.

Thanks for your help!
Jason1178,

don't miss my last response. I should clarify that the other themes I tried were the standard themese that came with wordpress so they weren't all "widgetized index"

BTW: How would we create a home page when it is a widgetized index?
>> When I change the theme our home page still does not show up. Does that change your response?

Yep.  Something is screwed up.  Double check  Settings | Reading and make sure the desired page is selected for the home page and nothing is selected for category archive?

>> BTW: How would we create a home page when it is a widgetized index?

You use the various widgets available in Appearance | Widgets to create static or dynamic content as you desire.  I do a lot of work with the Genesis framework and they have a metric ton of widgets on the home page (10+) on most of the themes.

http://demo.appfinite.com/optimal/

to see what I mean.  You can see how each widget area can be controlled separately.
I double-checked and it is indeed the theme.

How do we make sure our new theme that we purchase will be simple and non-widgetized?
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I think the original question has been answered here. I'll open up another post for a further discussion