Andrew Nevins
(@anevins)
WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support
Unfortunately there is no absolute answer, explanations for these deviations are relative to themes, operating systems, browser types and browser versions.
please post a link to your problem site if you would like to get further suggestions.
what is your setting under:
dashboard – seetings – reading – Blog pages show at most [ ] posts
Hi Alchymyth. That setting is currently on 5. The issue only exists for users that aren’t logged in to the WordPress site. Once logged in, all posts run from the top of the page, to the bottom. I did disable WP SuperCache, but it didn’t help the problem.
Here’s a link to an example of what’s happening..
http://www.thedash.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/DASH-1024×572.png
[No bumping. If it’s that urgent, consider hiring someone.]
The issue only exists for users that aren’t logged in to the WordPress site.
it seems to me that you have to be logged in to view the site at all (?)
what is the html code of that ‘broken’ page in the browser?
does it show the output of all posts, but the browser stops showing them?
it seems to me that you have to be logged in to view the site at all (?)
This is because a request to view the site externally of the school, results in a prompt for credentials. This isn’t the case in school. I’ll take a look at the code, as you have kindly suggested. Thanks for your help so far.
Hmm..there certainly doesn’t appear to be any text visible within the HTML source, that is otherwise missing from the page itself. Of course, it would be helpful to speak to the person that originally created the blog. Might have to go down that route.
Ok. I think this is the issue.
When not logged into the site (this is the case for students whilst in school), there are still sections of the site that they are able to navigate to, without being pestered for credentials.
The way the site has been setup, is so that when not logged in, the front page displays all posts that have posted to either; any of the 7 year groups, or the ‘Everyone’ categories. I think what is happening is that, say 1 out of the 5 posts (I say 5 as this is the value within the ‘dashboard – settings – reading – blog pages show at most [ ] posts’), has been directed to the category groups mentioned above, but the the remaining 4 posts have been directed to a staff only category, only the single post directed towards a student category would show! As there is only 1 student directed post out of the 5 for that page, it only displays 1 post on the page. If there were for instance, 2 out of 5 posts for a page that had been directed towards students, it would show only those 2 for that page, and NOTHING else on the page. If this is the case, and I think it is, it involves navigating through the different, and numerous pages, to track down the other posts. Is there any code that I could implement, so that WordPress continues to scour which are student category directed posts, but consolidates them all, and displays consecutively, using all the page space available (so that say, 10 posts are spread across 2 pages as opposed to many). Any ideas? Apologies for the mind blowing explanation!
