Title: Blog displaying wrong content
Last modified: September 1, 2016

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# Blog displaying wrong content

 *  [jdgd](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jdgd/)
 * (@jdgd)
 * [10 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/blog-displaying-wrong-content/)
 * Hello — I’m providing support to a client and can’t figure out what is wrong 
   with her site. She posted to her blog today and discovered that the Blog menu
   option no longer displays blog posts. Instead it is showing old home page content.
   The website is [http://grassrootsgrantmakers.org](http://grassrootsgrantmakers.org).
   If you click on a blog post in the sidebar on any other page, you can see the
   posts, but if you click on Blog in the menu, you get a page of old home pages.
 * You can see at archive.org that it used to work properly:
 * [https://web.archive.org/web/20150916164458/http://www.grassrootsgrantmakers.org/blog/](https://web.archive.org/web/20150916164458/http://www.grassrootsgrantmakers.org/blog/)
 * I have updated WordPress and all plugins. I disabled all plugins and changed 
   the theme to twentysixteen. No joy, so I re-enabled the plugins and switched 
   back to the correct theme.
 * I would appreciate some guidance about how to figure this out.
 * Thanks.
 * _[moderated to fix messed up links.]_

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 *  Moderator [t-p](https://wordpress.org/support/users/t-p/)
 * (@t-p)
 * [10 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/blog-displaying-wrong-content/#post-7506407)
 * >  Instead it is showing old home page content.
 * Have you tried: Flushing any caching plugins you might be running, as well as
   server and/or browser caches. Also, any op cache or content network cache, as
   well as Cloudflare, clear those caches.
 *  Thread Starter [jdgd](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jdgd/)
 * (@jdgd)
 * [10 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/blog-displaying-wrong-content/#post-7506427)
 * Thanks for getting back to me so quickly, Tara.
 * I don’t think there are any caching plugins. I’ve put a list below.
 * Sorry I don’t know what an op cache or content network cache is and don’t have
   access to the server.
 * I did reset my browser cache.
 * The thing is the content displayed on that page right now is not old content 
   and was never displayed there, so I doubt it could be a caching issue.
 * It seems to me as if it has to be a WordPress glitch. ???
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 *  Thread Starter [jdgd](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jdgd/)
 * (@jdgd)
 * [10 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/blog-displaying-wrong-content/#post-7506495)
 * Could the problem be related to this:
 * [Posts page is inheriting template from Front Page](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/posts-page-is-inheriting-template-from-front-page)
 * What’s appearing is different from the home page template but more like it than
   the correct blog page. Is there a way to check or specify what template the blog
   uses?
 *  Thread Starter [jdgd](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jdgd/)
 * (@jdgd)
 * [10 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/blog-displaying-wrong-content/#post-7506498)
 * One other thought: I can see the correct page when I go into Pages > Edit Page.
   When I preview the page, I see the correct content. I restored to a previous 
   version in case that might help. (The page had not been updated in four months,
   so it wasn’t a recent change there that caused the problem.) When I preview the
   page from the blog, it has the correct content. But the live site still shows
   the wrong content.
 *  Thread Starter [jdgd](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jdgd/)
 * (@jdgd)
 * [10 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/blog-displaying-wrong-content/#post-7506522)
 * So I’ve done a kludgy workaround, which I don’t consider a fix because I don’t
   know what the implications are.* I created a new page that I think is identical
   to the blog page. I designated it as the Posts Page. Now when you click the Blogs
   link at the top of the page, the “blog” that shows up is correct. HOWEVER, that
   is not the Posts Page. I don’t know what it is. If you go to the [Posts Page](http://www.grassrootsgrantmakers.org/blogs/),
   it has the same formatting problem that I started out with.
 * Any thoughts??
 * *I made the permalink for the new page almost identical to that of the original(
   just added an “s” to “blog”) so if the page shows up somewhere unintentionally
   it won’t be obvious that it’s a test. The permalinks are:
 * New Posts Page
    [http://www.grassrootsgrantmakers.org/blogs](http://www.grassrootsgrantmakers.org/blogs/)
 * Original page
    [http://www.grassrootsgrantmakers.org/blog](http://www.grassrootsgrantmakers.org/blog/)
 *  Thread Starter [jdgd](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jdgd/)
 * (@jdgd)
 * [10 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/blog-displaying-wrong-content/#post-7506678)
 * bump
 * – **_[Moderator’s note: [No bumping ](https://codex.wordpress.org/Forum_Welcome#No_Bumping)
   please]_**
 *  Thread Starter [jdgd](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jdgd/)
 * (@jdgd)
 * [10 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/blog-displaying-wrong-content/#post-7506694)
 * Sorry, I was getting frustrated at getting no response while my client was expecting
   some sort of update.
 * Since things have continued to seem OK with my previous kludge, I tried disabling
   the posts page completely:
 * Select Appearance > Customize.
    Select Static Front Page > Posts page > —Select—[
   First item on the list, essentially not selecting any actual page.]
 * The blog still seems to be working.
 * I don’t consider this resolved because I do not understand why selecting no blog
   page would make the blog page function properly. If anyone can shed some light,
   I’d appreciate it.
 * Thanks.

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