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1. olliepee
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Hi there, hope one of you guru's can help me - i've been tearing my hair out all day scouring this forum and google!

   I'm semi proficient in WordPress and have had a blog up and running for about 10 months now. It was all working absolutely perfectly. I have a static page set up as the homepage, and a 'news' section set up using the blog. I checked earlier today and I am totally unable to access the main blog page - it simply redirects me to a 404. I can still access the posts and categories. If I change the 'posts page' in the settings > reading options to nothing, the page I use for the blog can then be found.. but obviously there are no posts on it.

   Another problem also happening is that whatever I do, I cannot generate a list of recent posts on the homepage anymore...

   Does anyone have any idea what's going on? I have tried playing with htaccess and permalinks to no avail.

2. esmi
   Theme Diva & Forum Moderator
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Have you tried:

   - deactivating all plugins to see if this resolves the problem? If this works, re-activate the plugins one by one until you find the problematic plugin(s).

   - switching to the default theme to rule out any theme-related problems?

   - resetting the plugins folder by FTP or phpMyAdmin? Sometimes, an apparently inactive plugin can still cause problems.

3. olliepee
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   I was dreading disabling plugin's and was saving it as a last resort... I should have done it first!

   It turned out to be that the client had been playing with the 'simply exclude' plugin and basically switched everything off.

   What a nice client! :)

   Thankyou so much for your time mate, have a virtual beer on me!

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4. esmi
   Theme Diva & Forum Moderator
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Nice ASCII art! :-)

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