Never mind Nitesh I think I figured it out :)
Thanks Nitesh I changed the name of front-page.php to front-page1.php in my child theme folder as you suggested and it worked! It now responds...
I thought I should also mention that ours is a MultiSite installation and that the root directory for the network itself is also a sub directory...
Hello I am building a child theme for Cloriato and am noticing that the front page will no longer turn off (become a blog archive) vie theme...
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