Link to blog posts not working after 3.40 to 4.4.4 upgrade
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Executive summary:
After upgrading from 3.40 to 4.4.4 the link to http://www.example.com/blog no longer works.
The details:
I’ve been using this theme on my WordPress site for a number of years, currently using 3.40. Our ‘customization’ pretty close to a standard installation. Our landing page is the ‘standard’ custom page and it provides a link to the ‘blog’ posts.
I’ve been ignore the nag to update to version 4.x because everything still worked.
I’ve now had time to read through https://cyberchimps.com/responsive-4/ and began work figuring what changes would be required. I’ve got a replica test environment that I’m using for testing/experimenting.
After upgrading to v4.4.4 everything seems to work as expected with one exception. The link to the ‘blog’ posts no longer works, i.e Home > Blog with
v3.40 shows all the blog posts but with v4.4.4 it just shows Blog and no blog posts.Have I missed something in the upgrade process or customization settings to make this work?
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After a day of hunting around I found the issue. Per Responsive 4.0 is live. Here’s what’s new. in the Responsive theme page template changes they indicate they’ve remove the ‘Blog full post’ template, which was what we used for the ‘blog’ page.
We are also using the removed ‘Sitemap’ template as well.
Now to figure out how to re-implement these useful templates. Any guidance or help would be most appreciated.
@prajakti I site uses this theme because it is simple, elegant and easy to manage. The main page of our site is a discussion board and a wiki, the WordPress portion is used primarily as a homepage and some blog posts for major announcements. It was simple to customize the default custom page to provide our homepage. Then we added a menu link to our blog posts, using a page (Blog) that uses the Blog (full posts) template.
Essentially that’s the extend of our WordPress install and it has worked very well for us. We’re not really bloggers, so simple works well and we don’t have to spend much time learning WordPress skills and techniques.
I have been working through the documentation to try and figure out how to re-implement this critical functionality. I’m getting closer but I still find it hard to understand why what seems like such a critical template from 3.40 doesn’t have a simpler path forward into 4.x and forces the end-user to reinvent the wheel. At best I would have thought the documentation might provide a simple recipe to follow to implement what seems like a core use-case, a page listing all blog posts.
The functionality seems to exist with Responsive 4, but ONLY if my Customize->Homepage setting has ‘Enable Custom Front Page’ unchecked. That’s the page I want to provide from a menu item.
With some sleuthing and @prajakti’s help I have finally figured this out.
Our live site uses Responsive 3.40 and the Customize/Homepage Settings are:
Your homepage displays set to Your latest posts
Enable Custom Front Page clickedAmong our Pages, we have a Blog page but no Home page. Our home page is generated by the Custom Front Page and the Home Widget 1, Home Widget 2 and Home Widget 3.
It was worked with this configuration since we launched in January 2014, I don’t recall the WordPress and Responsive theme versions at the time.
To make it work after upgrading to Responsive 4.4.4 we had to make the following changes/fixes:
- Create a Main page
- Change the Customize/Homepage Settings to Your homepage displays to ‘A static page’, set <Homepage> to the newly created Home page and Posts page to the existing Blog page
- Leave Enable Custom Front Page box checked
I have suggested the https://cyberchimps.com/responsive-4/ instructions need to be updated to cover this case as an item that might need to be fixed.
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