jdk291

What are you editting the files with, the theme editor or your own program?..

It’s important your editor handles the files correctly, else you end up encoding the file in the wrong format and/or odd characters can be introduced amongst other things.

I have been using wordpad (saving as unicode text doc) to edit these files and was initally using FTP to upload the files– but i think that was what caused the problems (especially with page.php) in the first place – i ended up with a wingding looking diamond with a question mark in it all over the place… I copied the contents of a backup page.php and put it back via the theme editor and all was fine.

edit-pages seemed to be messed up by the mere opening of the file with wordpad. I finally uploaded a backup edit-pages.php that i did NOT open in wordpad and it worked.

I will look into Notepad++

I am at work now, and wont be able to zip up the files for you to look at until later.

There was a child theme listed in the theme directory, but i didnt look at it too closely. I will look into that as well.

I really appreciate the help. I will try to provide these answers soon…

nothing configured

i mean front page shows latest posts

Or, If anyone else may know where this change can be made please let me know…

@t31os_

there is no query_posts( in the index.php but this part is the first to mention the older posts link…

<?php get_header() ?>

	<div id="container">
		<div id="content">

			<div id="nav-above" class="navigation">
                <?php if(function_exists('wp_pagenavi')) { ?>
                <?php wp_pagenavi(); ?>
                <?php } else { ?>
				<div class="nav-previous"><?php next_posts_link(__('<span class="meta-nav">&laquo;</span> Older posts', 'thematic')) ?></div>
				<div class="nav-next"><?php previous_posts_link(__('Newer posts <span class="meta-nav">&raquo;</span>', 'thematic')) ?></div>

could there be a problem in wp_pagenavi()?

Thanks!

@t31os_

This is a recent malfunction that didnt start before I caused then fixed these(reposted from above): http://wordpress.org/support/topic/350327?replies=5 http://wordpress.org/support/topic/350313?replies=3

The only page I see this happen on is the main page when you click the older posts link at the bottom http://www.manifestvegan.com/

Is there anything in the page.php that would cause the page http://www.manifestvegan.com/page/2/ not to work? If not, do you know where this is generally referenced in themes?

Thanks!

@taqskt

http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Permalinks This is helping me understand this a bit better

@michaelh

Update your permalinks via Administration > Settings > Permalinks.

Is there a specific action that ‘updates’ permalinks? I have already changed to the default and the problem goes away — but this is not an option because I dont want to break links that exist on the web.

If that doesn’t work, deactivate all plugins and change to the WordPress Default theme.

…and then bring them all back on and everything will be fine? I cant switch to the default.

Here are the other issues i have been dealing with recently… maybe this will provide some context.

http://wordpress.org/support/topic/350327?replies=5

http://wordpress.org/support/topic/350313?replies=3

thanks for your help.

so if i change my permalink structure to default that resolves the issue… but I cannot do this as all the links to my site will no longer work. i need to keep my permalinks as /%year%/%monthnum%/%postname%/

anyone know what would cause this?

this is turning into a diary.
is anyone out there?

would appreciate some advice…