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1. bentonda
   Member
   Posted 9 months ago #
   

   Hello,

   I am currently setting up a site using wordpress and have created a number of information pages as well as a blog.

   I want to use permalinks on all of my pages which I have been able to get happening except for the blog page.

   So I have pages that have the following come up in the address bar;

   http://www.bentonphotographic.com.au/berlin/
   http://www.bentonphotographic.com.au/berlin/wedding/
   http://www.bentonphotographic.com.au/berlin/portrait/

   but the blog page comes up like this;

   http://www.bentonphotographic.com.au/berlin/?p=0

   I would like it to look like this

   http://www.bentonphotographic.com.au/berlin/blog

   Under the heading of Settings > Reading I have toggled the "A static page" ON and set the following

   Front page: home-page
   Posts page:-Select-

   For the Posts Page drop down I was hoping that my blog page would appear in the drop down list here, but it has not.

   Would anyone know how I can make the?p=0 be replaced with the word blog?

   Thank You
   Ben

2. esmi
   Theme Diva & Forum Moderator
   Posted 9 months ago #
   

   Have you set up any custom permalinks? If so, was the .htaccess file successfully created/amended?

3. bentonda
   Member
   Posted 9 months ago #
   

   I had not done that but I have now and it is still suffering the same problem.

   I changed from;
   Options +FollowSymlinks
   RewriteEngine On

   RewriteRule ^home.htm$ benton-photographic.php
   RewriteRule ^portrait_([0-9][0-9]).htm$ portrait.php?id=$1
   RewriteRule ^wedding_([0-9][0-9]).htm$ wedding.php?id=$1
   RewriteRule ^gallery_([0-9][0-9]).htm$ gallery.php?id=$1
   RewriteRule ^event_([0-9][0-9]).htm$ event.php?id=$1
   RewriteRule ^industrial_([0-9][0-9]).htm$ industrial.php?id=$1
   RewriteRule ^contact_([0-9][0-9]).htm$ contact.php?id=$1
   RewriteRule ^wed_([0-9][0-9]).htm$ wedding-page.php?page_id=45

   to:

   <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
   RewriteEngine On
   RewriteBase /berlin/
   RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
   RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
   RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
   RewriteRule . /berlin/index.php [L]
   </IfModule>

   Regards
   Ben

4. esmi
   Theme Diva & Forum Moderator
   Posted 9 months ago #
   

   The site at http://www.bentonphotographic.com.au/berlin/ is working perfectly for me - custom permalinks and all.

5. bentonda
   Member
   Posted 9 months ago #
   

   But when you navigate to my blog page the php id thing gets displayed in the address bar, this is what I am trying to change to the word blog
   like this;

   http://www.bentonphotographic.com.au/berlin/blog

   If you try to navigate there you get the following message;

   This is somewhat embarrassing, isn’t it?

   Cheers
   Ben

6. esmi
   Theme Diva & Forum Moderator
   Posted 9 months ago #
   

   Try checking your custom menu. I think you hardcoded that Blog link.

7. bentonda
   Member
   Posted 9 months ago #
   

   Yes you are right under menus i have a menu entry named blog and in the URL section I have the following;

   http://www.bentonphotographic.com.au/berlin/?p=0

   On the wp-admin/nav-menus.php screen under heading pages there is no page named blog. When I have done a search on the page named blog nothing comes up either.

   So I did create a custom link item here and called it blog with the hard wired entry as described above.

   Is there something I can do to make this dynamic?

   Ben

8. esmi
   Theme Diva & Forum Moderator
   Posted 9 months ago #
   

   What items do you have in your custom menu in Appearance -> Menus?

9. bentonda
   Member
   Posted 9 months ago #
   

   I have created a menu called my_menu and I have three menu items with the word page in the top right hand corner;

   Home
   Wedding
   Portrait

   And then I have one menu item with the word custom in the top right hand corner;

   Blog

10. esmi
    Theme Diva & Forum Moderator
    Posted 9 months ago #
    

    Try deleting that menu and then re-creating it.

11. bentonda
    Member
    Posted 9 months ago #
    

    The whole menu named my_menu?

12. esmi
    Theme Diva & Forum Moderator
    Posted 9 months ago #
    

    Yes

13. bentonda
    Member
    Posted 9 months ago #
    

    Okay I have had a quick go at that and I only created menus items for the pages, and now I have no way of navigating to the blog page, without creating a custom link.

    So how would I navigate to the blog page?

    http://www.bentonphotographic.com.au/berlin/

14. esmi
    Theme Diva & Forum Moderator
    Posted 9 months ago #
    

    If you set the main posts page (ie Blog) up using the instructions in creating a static front page, it will be listed in the Pages list within Appearance -> Menus.

15. bentonda
    Member
    Posted 9 months ago #
    

    Thank You esmi the instruction in the document creating a static front page proved to be very helpful.

    Cheers
    Ben

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