Where Are The WordPress Pages??

  • Resolved peterinco

    (@peterinco)


    20 years, 8 months ago

    Hi all and thanks in advance. I’m looking forward to checking out the websites of some of the participants here…

    Anyway, I installed WordPress and it seems to be working fine–I can create pages and posts, but I can’t figure out where the WordPress pages are or what they look like! For instance, I create a page and it is called …/?page_id=3 but where is it? I get a “Page Not Found” error page. If I click the “Go to Site” I simply go to my homepage or, if I change the options blog hompage to something else (e.g., /wordpress) it goes to that and it is blank.

    I just installed WordPress in my main directory but I can certainly create a folder and put it there… I tried changing my Index page to a blank one thinking WordPress would set up home there and that didn’t work… I haven’t gotten into the templates and appearance stuff thinking I’ll at least check out the default.

    I’m just learning the whole php thing… maybe I’m looking for HTML but can’t find it?

    Thanks!!

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  • Cypher

    (@cypher)

    20 years, 8 months ago

    After creating your page, go to Manage->Pages in the Admin tab, you will see View/Edit/Delete for each of your pages. Click View to see what it looks like. You will also see the Page ID there.

    For starters, I would enable <A href=”http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Permalinks”>Permalinks on your site.

    Virtually everything that you write in WP is stored in the database and retrieved dynamically.

    Do not go looking for static HTML files as you will not find them.

    Regards

    Thread Starter peterinco

    (@peterinco)

    20 years, 8 months ago

    Thanks. Perhaps my description was bad– That’s the problem, when I click on View I receive error/Page Not Found. This is the same for several pages and posts I’ve created. Yes, I can see the page ID but the page is missing. Can’t really say I was looking for HTML, just something!

    I haven’t really gotten to Permalinks in my education but I’ll look into that. According to this (http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Permalinks) it seems that with v1.5 it should happen on its own.

    Thread Starter peterinco

    (@peterinco)

    20 years, 8 months ago

    Sorry, I now see that this is a repeat problem discussed elsewhere and is apparently related to .htaccess and Permalinks. I still don’t know what the solution is.

    Funny that I’ve seen several posts from folks asking “What do I do?” and I’ve checked their sites and they seem to have solved it…

    tomhanna

    (@tomhanna)

    20 years, 8 months ago

    No, it’s not that. You’re not using custom permalinks if the url is …?pageid=3. How about giving a link to the front page of the site you are working on and a link to one of the pages.

    Thread Starter peterinco

    (@peterinco)

    20 years, 8 months ago

    Thank you, Tom. Correct–I’m not using permalinks (yet) as I don’t care about that until I get it working. As I said, I’ve got everything in the root directory. If I leave the “blog address” in options to my homepage (www.theResearchSource.net) it goes there with no WP input at all; if I change this to something else (e.g., http://www.theResearchSource.net/columns) I get blanks or “Page Not Found”.

    I tried the /index.php/ thing and that didn’t help. In one post I saw the person seemed to be having a similar problem and they put WP in its own directory and that solved it. I’m going to try that.

    Does anyone know of similar blog and comments sotware? All I’m trying to do is have comments on the writing on my website. Most of the comments here are over my head and I’m wondering if WP is for me. Thanks.

    And Tom, I did look at your site (believe me, I have searched and looked at EVERYONE’s site) and maybe I should hire you to solve my WP problems… and, RE the smuggling of rare birds, maybe someone could smuggle some deer and elk OUT of Colorado!

    Thread Starter peterinco

    (@peterinco)

    20 years, 8 months ago

    Nevermind. It works. At least I can be sure nobody else posted it and I missed it. I put WP in its own directory, where I wanted it anyway, and that may have helped given what I was trying to do. Most importantly, it seems I failed to ftp the “Index” php file.

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