How do I bring blog functionality back to a WordPress website?

  • Brian

    (@bridean77)


    11 years, 3 months ago

    I have a customer who has a wordpress website my company built for him. It was set up as a static site, so from the beginning the blog functionality was broken/disabled.

    Now he wants a page for his website that works as a blog. I’ve spent far too much time trying to figure this out on my own, searching the internet, forums etc and I can’t find a direct solution. Just a few complicated ones which might be a waste of my time because I’m dealing with a later version of wordpress and I think these solutions are outdated.

    Does anyone know? It doesn’t make sense that these sites are blogs by default yet after disabling the blog it’s so hard to get it working again. Help with this would be greatly appreciated

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  • esmi

    (@esmi)

    11 years, 3 months ago

    from the beginning the blog functionality was broken/disabled.

    Can you elaborate on this? In what way is Post functionality “broken”?

    Thread Starter Brian

    (@bridean77)

    11 years, 3 months ago

    Well broken is the wrong word, let’s just go with disabled. Whenever I set up a wordpress website for a customer I go through the step of going to ‘reading’ and setting up the front page display to be a static page. I don’t know what else it may be that I’m doing which disables the blog mode, I just need the blog mode working, and for that blog to be accessible through the last link of the menu.

    esmi

    (@esmi)

    11 years, 3 months ago

    When you select the static page in Settings -> Reading, you can also pick a main posts page that has the functionality that you’re looking for.

    Thread Starter Brian

    (@bridean77)

    11 years, 3 months ago

    Ok, thanks, I did this and had to turn off a plugin (WP-CMS) for the Posts to come back. I have another issue to deal with now. The blog section of the site a) has no CSS, I can’t figure out which directory its missing ‘style2.css’ is supposed to go in. My lack of PHP experience is really messing me up I think. Also the latest posts are not showing up in the middle of the page. So I am lost, yet again

    The website I’m working on is http://www.potterscarpetcleaning.com

    esmi

    (@esmi)

    11 years, 3 months ago

    Where was this theme downloaded from?

    Thread Starter Brian

    (@bridean77)

    11 years, 3 months ago

    A long-gone employee who I’ve replaced created it, or modified it from something else

    esmi

    (@esmi)

    11 years, 3 months ago

    The level of coding needed is probably beyond the scope of the support we are able to provide in the forum. It sounds like the theme needs to be completely overhauled as it was not designed for the purpose that you are now trying to use it with.

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