jonimueller

Yes, that is what I was saying. Delete the nav menu items and start over. That just deletes what APPEARS on the nav menu. It does NOT delete the pages themselves.

And depending on how the theme was crafted, it can affect WordPress’s behavior — and the behavior of plugins — in a negative way. That was why I originally thought of disabling that theme, but then thought better of it due to the havoc that would wreak, plus I just don’t think it’s a theme issue somehow. I think it’s got to do with the cruft that’s been generated with all the pages being created and the fiddling around with permalinks. :)))

Jeff it looks like you still have a bunch of different pages all with similar names. The same names, actually, but WP deals with that by tacking on a sequential number to each. That is, I believe, why you are seeing page slugs like blog-3-2. If I were you, I’d go to that menu and delete everything but the Home page, and then start rebuilding your page menu from scratch.

And yes, posting the .htaccess file would help, but you need to go into your web host’s File Manager in order to do that unless you have a plugin installed. OR download it to your hard drive via FTP and then copy and paste it here.

First of all, your home page should be at http://www.firefallphotography.com/ or http://www.firefallphotography.com/home-page/ … right now it’s rolling over to http://www.firefallphotography.com/-1 which is WEIRD.

I hate to ask you to switch to the default theme because you may lose some of your current theme settings depending on how convoluted the theme is.

I am also wondering if your .htaccess file isn’t somehow jacked up. Those are my only two ideas.

Are you SURE you are linking to the correct blog page? There can be no other explanation than that it is still pointing to the wrong page. Have you cleared out your browser cache?

Oh, and this may sound silly, but I’ve done it a few times. Did you make sure to hit the big blue SAVE button at the right top and right bottom of the menu panel once you were done adding and configuring your menu structure?

Create a custom page template that calls the left sidebar and the right sidebar. You may need to assign a different class to the content section of the page to make it narrow enough to support two sidebars.

Here is info on creating a custom page template:
http://codex.wordpress.org/Page_Templates#Custom_Page_Template

Then once that’s done, you should be able to see the newly created page template from your add/edit page editing panel.

Hi, Jeff. The slug (Pretty URL name for your page or post) for your blog page seems to be /blog-3. This suggests that you’ve been creating a few pages named “Blog”, at least three of them. So WordPress names them with successive numbers; e.g., /blog, /blog-2, /blog-3, etc.

Go to your Pages listing and see if you can find the page “/blog-3
— you should hover your mouse over the “View” link and watch your browser’s status bar (usually lower left corner). You should then be able to locate that page. If not, it doesn’t exist and you need to find the real blog page and then plug that into your top nav menu. Right now it’s pointing to blog-3, which may or may not exist.

HTH

If your webhost uses cpanel, you may want to install WordPress via the Fantastico installer. Otherwise, you will need to use FTP to upload the Zip file and uncompress it there OR unzip it on your hard drive and upload the folders and files. You will also need to set up a database and user.

http://codex.wordpress.org/Installing_WordPress