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1. stacysblog
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #

   After changing the sidebar code in my current theme to include RSS links, only the most recent post appears on the blog page. All of my other posts have disappeared. To see any of the older posts I have to click on the archives. One June post is completely missing.

   Click here to see what I mean

   I don't understand why changing the sidebar code should have affected my posts. Even worse, when I change to any of the other available themes, the sidebar completely disappears in all of those themes.

   I really appreciate any help you can offer!

   Thanks,
   Stacy

2. MichaelH
   Volunteer
   Posted 4 years ago #

   Do you have a link to download the theme you are using, please.

3. stacysblog
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #

   Michael,

   Do you mean the link where I got the theme?

   I got it here

   Stacy

4. MichaelH
   Volunteer
   Posted 4 years ago #

   I'd say do an upgrade to 2.2.1, download a clean version of that theme and use that. Then try to make the change again.

   See:

   Upgrading WordPress.

   If that isn't something you want to do, then post your sidebar.php file at http://wordpress.pastebin.ca/ and report the link back here.

   I did install that theme on a 2.2.1 test blog and it seems to work okay.

5. stacysblog
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #

   Thanks Michael for all the help you're giving me! I really appreciate it.

   I'm a little nervous about doing the upgrade, even though I know I have to do it eventually. So I posted my sidebar file. The link is:

   here

   While you're helping me I hope you don't mind if I ask you a silly question! When you're editing files, does the spacing matter? The spacing always looks so odd to me and I'm not sure why or if it really matters.

   Thanks so much!
   Stacy

6. MichaelH
   Volunteer
   Posted 4 years ago #

   I used your sidebar.php code and still have no problem.

   Other things:
   1. I don't see the two yahoo items in the meta section.
   2. I get a footer at the bottom of my main page and you don't. You also don't get a footer displayed on the June 2007 Archive page or the Miscellaneous Category page, but you see the footer on the other Archives and Category pages.

   So is there something weird with that post "Improved blogging for next year!"?, or is there a plugin causing the problem, or something wrong in your database.

   Maybe mark that Improved blogging post as a Draft to see if that is the problem. If not, deactivate plugins. Then finally might use phpMyAdmin to check/rebuild your wp_posts and wp_posts2cat tables.

   Please make sure you have a current backup of you database.

7. stacysblog
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #

   You're brilliant! It was something to do with that post. I deleted it and all went back to normal. I then rewrote it and republished it (this time uploading the picture insted of just copy and pasting it in) and it all worked out fine.

   Thank you so much for your help! I think I have a crush on you now. :)

8. MichaelH
   Volunteer
   Posted 4 years ago #

   Okay before you get all 'crushy' do that backup and upgrade ;)

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