# Pages (but not Posts or static homepage) are blank

**URL:** <https://forum.ghost.org/t/pages-but-not-posts-or-static-homepage-are-blank/15235>\
**Category:** Developer help\
**Created:** [June 19, 2020, 6:06pm UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/pages-but-not-posts-or-static-homepage-are-blank/15235 "2020-06-19T18:06:30Z")\
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**Author:** ![fredperrotta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/54ee81/32.png) [@fredperrotta](https://forum.ghost.org/u/fredperrotta)\
**Post date:** [June 19, 2020, 6:06pm UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/pages-but-not-posts-or-static-homepage-are-blank/15235/1 "2020-06-19T18:06:30Z")

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While setting up my static homepage and routing, I did something causing my pages (but not posts) to appear blank. Posts work fine. My homepage, built on a version of the page template, works fine.

Pages themselves are blank.

Example page: [The Founder's Guide to Hiring](https://www.fredperrotta.com/hiring/)

pages.hbs

```
{{!< default}}

{{> header}}

<main class="wrapper_digitus" role="main">

{{#page}}
<article class="article_digitus" role="article" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Article">
	<header class="postheader_digitus">
        <h1 class="posttitle_digitus" itemprop="headline">{{title}}</h1>
        <hr class="pause">
	</header>
	
	<div class="postcontent_digitus" itemprop="articleBody">
		{{content}}
	</div>

</article>

{{/page}}

</main>

{{> footer}}

```

routes.yaml

```
routes:
  /:
data: page.home
template: home

collections:
/articles/:
permalink: /{slug}/ 
template: index

taxonomies:
tag: /tag/{slug}/
author: /author/{slug}/

```

I already recreated the page.hbs file from what was working on the static homepage and post.hbs.

Can anyone provide any guidance on where I might look to troubleshoot next?

Thanks,  
Fred

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**Author:** ![Hannah](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forum.ghost.org/hannah/32/22_2.png) [@Hannah](https://forum.ghost.org/u/Hannah)\
**Post date:** [June 19, 2020, 7:32pm UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/pages-but-not-posts-or-static-homepage-are-blank/15235/2 "2020-06-19T19:32:55Z")

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For legacy reasons, normal pages in Ghost have all their data associated with a data key `post` and so they use `{{#post}}{{/post}}` where the newer dynamic route pages uses `{{#page}}{{/page}}` by default.

Or another way of putting it is that:

`data: page.home` is shorthand for

```auto
   data: 
     page: page.home

```

So, home.hbs should use `{{#page}}{{/page}}`  
And page.hbs should use `{{#post}}{{/post}}`

Alternatively, if you change your routes to this:

```auto
routes:
  /:
    data:
      post: page.home
      template: home

```

You can change the home page data key to post and then consistently use `{{#post}}{{/post}}` everywhere.

FWIW yes this is daft and confusing and we need to fix it.

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**Author:** ![fredperrotta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/54ee81/32.png) [@fredperrotta](https://forum.ghost.org/u/fredperrotta)\
**Post date:** [June 19, 2020, 10:42pm UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/pages-but-not-posts-or-static-homepage-are-blank/15235/3 "2020-06-19T22:42:39Z")

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That is confusing. Now I don’t feel so bad that I couldn’t figure it out myself.

Thanks, Hannah. Your explanation was super helpful. I’ve got it working with the your first suggestion.