Posted 9 months ago #
I have a WordPress driven website www.kimstewart.ca
The pages themselves work fine, however, the blog does not www.kimstewart.ca/blog/
It should be finding this page www.kimstewart.ca/blog/page/1/ but it is not...
I am worried I will need to nuke the site and start over.... Any help is *greatly* appreciated. I am hoping to get this resolved tonight.
Thanks!!
I am worried I will need to nuke the site and start over
WordPress Backups will help you overcome that worry...
Couldn't you use one of the techniques described in Giving_WordPress_Its_Own_Directory or How can I have a static front page and posts display on a page called Blog?
Posted 9 months ago #
Thanks MichaelH!
The blog seems to work now when I modify the Reading settings in WP Admin. However, when you click a post name, it does not show /blog/ in front of the URL, example: http://www.kimstewart.ca/hostgator-web-hosting/
Any ideas how to fix this?
Seems like you fixed it.
Posted 8 months ago #
Thanks, MichaelH.
The pagination is indeed working again, and all of my blog posts are now inside the /blog/ folder. This is great! Even the search results stay inside /blog/. Exactly what I needed...
However, the homepage www.kimstewart.ca is showing the blog...
Any ideas how to fix?
Posted 8 months ago #
Thanks, MichaelH
Thanks for the link but I have gone through the WordPress Codex multiple times now, and still can't seem to get it working properly.
I will try to recap what I have done, exactly:
In Pages, I have created
a new page called "My Front Page"
and a new page called "Blog"
In General Settings I have set
WordPress address (URL) to "http://www.kimstewart.ca"
Blog address (URL) to "http://www.kimstewart.ca/blog/"
In Reading Settings I have set
Front page display "A static page (select below)"
Front page: My Front Page
Posts page: Blog
And in permalinks I have set
Comment settings
Custom Structure: "/%postname%/"
This is exactly how my WordPress driven website is running of now on www.kimstewart.ca
I hope this helps get to the problem. I have even created a new WordPress install just to see if mine had a glitch and it is doing the exact same thing (with the default WordPress theme)...
Thanks for all your help, MichaelH! Hopefully I am 99% of the way there... I just need to figure out this mysterious homepage issue. :)
So what Template are you using for your Front Page Page. Maybe that Template is also showing your posts...
If you have no Template assigned to that Page, with the help of the Template Hierarchy article, determine what Template is displaying that Pages.
Posted 8 months ago #
"Default template"
The same as all of the other pages:
http://www.kimstewart.ca/services/
http://www.kimstewart.ca/portfolio/
http://www.kimstewart.ca/about/
http://www.kimstewart.ca/blog/
http://www.kimstewart.ca/contact/
Hmm...guess the next thing to do is provide a link to download that theme.
Posted 8 months ago #
OK,
Thanks MichaelH
I have uploaded my theme as .zip format onto this site
http://www.filedropper.com/theme_1
(Just click "Download This File" and enter in the characters)
Too much 'custom' stuff (includes that aren't in the theme directory) there for me to use.
What happens if you switch to the WordPress Default Theme. Does the problem persist.
Posted 8 months ago #
Yes, I have installed it on a brand new URL, with a brand new WP install (2.7) and default theme here:
www.cssgarbage.com
And as you can see, pagination is still broken with the "blog" structure
http://cssgarbage.com/blog/page/2/
Maybe the problem is the blog Page name, and WordPress being in the blog subdirectory.
I setup a test blog with WordPress in a subfolder called wpblog and then create a Page called wpblog and set my Permalink structure to %postname% and my Reading settings to make wpblog be my posts page and I get an error trying to access mydomain.com/wpblog.
Posted 8 months ago #
Hmmm, I tried changing my Blog page title to WPblog and then the page slug to wpblog, but still to no avail...
Oh well...
Thanks for all of your help anyways, MichaelH!
It has been very much greatly appreciated!
I think I have a solution for this, it's not the most ideal way, but it *should* (hopefully) work:
If I set my Reading settings -> Front Page to show latest posts instead of static pages, that will show my blog on the homepage AND within the /blog directory. Pagination works perfectly - with the /blog added to all of my blog posts (I have currently set it that way on my website, www.kimstewart.ca/blog/ if you want to check it out)
So my solution for the homepage is to just hardcode the homepage in there with a static PHP file, overriting any WordPress pages. This means losing WP backend control over my homepage, but it should still work, right?
Also, is there a special naming convention for overriting the WP theme homepage? "/wp-content/themes/themename/frontpage.php" or something like that?
Thanks!
Wish I understood why you are having that problem, but might review the old discussion on Creating_a_Static_Front_Page
Posted 8 months ago #
i am using the kubrick theme on both of my pages - i have the same plugins, the same set-up and everything seems to be the same but one site will not hold the home page static as i tell it to. and the other one works just fine.
Posted 8 months ago #
Ravenmaster,
are they both running WordPress 2.7?
Posted 8 months ago #
@revlimiter:
did you ever get the issue resolved?
I'm having issues with my blog pagination as you were, and if I change my settings to match yours above (with the permalinks) then I also get my 'home' page showing my blog entries instead of the static page.
Fixing one problem creates another, and I cant seem to get teh two working together. Any clues/resolutions to the problem would be fantastic.
Thank you :)
Posted 8 months ago #
hey, mattg2379
I have not yet been able to resolve this issue. It appears as though the link MichaelH provided does not work for WordPress 2.7:
Creating_a_Static_Front_Page
Any help from the community would be greatly appreciated! Basically, I'm just looking to create a static homepage (index.php or home.php) within my WordPress theme directory, while keeping my blog visible in /blog/ directory. When I try adding "home.php" to my themes folder it also affects my blog located at "/blog".
Posted 8 months ago #
Both are running 2.7.1. - i have tried everything but nothing will work -
Here is the problem -
if i set the home page to home and the blog page to blog - my home page content shows up as the home page and on the blog page.
If I do not set a static home page - everything displays properly but when you put in the url you get the blog page first and not the home page - the posts are there but it doesnt default to the home page.
This has been driving me crazy for a couple of weeks now - i Have even installed the home page control plug-in but nothing seems to work -
Thanks
Posted 8 months ago #
Ravenmaster,
Yes - I am having the exact same problem and can't seem to figure it out either... I am beginning to wonder if this is a WP 2.7 glitch...
Surprised to see very little discussion about this one.
Any help is greatly appreciated!
Hopefully this homepage/blog issue will either get cleared up for us in v2.7 or fixed in the next release...
Thanks,
Posted 8 months ago #
UPDATE:
I got it working:
:)
http://codex.wordpress.org/Creating_a_Static_Front_Page#If_WordPress_is_in_Root
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