Settings>Reading>Static Page(works) Posts page (doesn’t)

  • mitchpowell

    (@mitchpowell)


    14 years, 10 months ago

    Theme: Blue Black (slight mods made so far)

    Problem: In ‘Settings’ | ‘Reading’ , I set “Front page displays:” to “A static page,” and chose an existing page (“3D”) for that; and I chose another existing page (“News”) for the “Posts page.” When I click on the “News” link in the nav bar, there are no posts showing up on the resulting page.

    I remembered having no problem with this kind of arrangement on earlier installations, but there are now so many plugins and features and configuration options, I’ve become confused about where to begin looking for a solution.

    The site is http://loosearrow3d.com

    Thanks,
    Mitch

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  • MichaelH

    (@michaelh)

    14 years, 10 months ago

    Those posts are controlled by your index.php so guess that could be an issue.

    What happens if you change to the WordPress Default theme? If the problem persists then guess that could be a plugin causing that…

    Thread Starter mitchpowell

    (@mitchpowell)

    14 years, 10 months ago

    I’m thinking it’s the theme itself. I preview a different theme (not the default one though, since it doesn’t have top navigation,) and the “News” link does indeed display the posts, but then the “Home” link ALSO displays the posts, AND both tabs are colored as the “current item.”

    The theme’s index.php first checks for settings (which also covers the ad blocks that the theme author seems to be stressing, and which I am not enabling):

    <?php
global $options;
foreach ($options as $value) {
if (get_settings( $value['id'] ) === FALSE) { $$value['id'] = $value['std']; } else { $$value['id'] = get_settings( $value['id'] ); } }
?>

    Does looking at that piece of code tell you anything? Next comes the get_header call and then this:

    <?php $count = 1; ?> 

	<?php query_posts($query_string.'order=DESC'); 

while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>

	<div class="post" id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>">

    Maybe I should see if the theme author can help?

    Thanks for your suggestion. It did tell me a little more that I hadn’t thought of.

    Mitch

    MichaelH

    (@michaelh)

    14 years, 10 months ago

    Wonder what the $count thing is doing–must be other code related to that?

    Might have to post your whole index.php at http://wordpress.pastebin.com and report the link back here.

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