jkovis

I’m not sure, but how else would WP know if a post with that ID existed without querying the database?

You’d probably be better served asking this and your other database access questions on the WP-Hackers mailing list or IRC since more (all?) core-devs are there.

Now however, I have the wordpress default "home" page showing in the pages tab,
as well as my created home page.

It sounds like the homepage link is hardcoded into your theme’s navigation.

Open your header.php (or whichever template file is creating the navigation links) and look for wp_page_menu(); or wp_list_pages(); (there’s more between the parentheses).

Either refer to the two bottom links to fix the function call or paste the code around those function calls here so we can see what is getting called to generate your navigation.

http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/wp_page_menu
http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/wp_list_pages

looks like they create the content in the title tag through their own function (woo_title()).

maybe try them over at http://www.woothemes.com/support/ ?

you might want to try is_front_page()

also, what is listed for your WordPress address (URL) and Site address (URL) on wp-admin/options-general.php?

It sounds like it’s hardcoded into your header.

Can you open up your header.php file and paste the code between the <title> and </title> tags here? (Put code in between backticks.)

The code snippet above should work.

I agree that the code should work, but I spent some time yesterday trying to get it to work on a localhost install and found that pagination does break after a couple pages as LynneAndChad described.

I just set up a test blog (WP 2.8.6 via svn check out and no plugins activated) at http://test.tontinehouse.com/ using the default theme with a couple of tweaks (so you can see the $wp_query->query_vars array and $wp_query->request that WP runs to generate each page).

I published nine dummy posts and set the blog to show 3 posts per page (via /wp-admin/options-reading.php) by default and then added the following $wp_query edit in index.php:

// if generating a page off index.php change
// the posts_per_page setting to 1
if( is_home() ) {
    query_posts($query_string."&posts_per_page=1&paged=$paged");
}

Pagination works for /page/2/ and /page/3/ but breaks with /page/4/ and beyond.

What’s interesting to note is the LIMIT part of $wp_query->request because posts_per_page seems to revert to the default posts per page value (3 in this case) after page three.

On http://test.tontinehouse.com/page/2/

ORDER BY wp_2_posts.post_date DESC LIMIT 1, 1

On http://test.tontinehouse.com/page/4/

ORDER BY wp_2_posts.post_date DESC LIMIT 9, 3

I also followed several good WP sources (nathanrice.net and weblogtoolscollection.com, Codex Custom Queries, and Codex Query Overview ) without luck.

Whoops…I failed to mention as blondishnet correctly pointed out that WP Help Center is a fee-based service.

My apologies for any confusion.

Can you access your site via FTP?