All my entries redirecting to the latest blog post

modsuperstar,

Did you check for orderby=rand in the main page loop, this may be causing the random posts here. I’m curious what the php is on the post titles it should be something to the effect of: <h2><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h2> this would them link back to the actual post.

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I guess the problem isn’t actually a redirection problem, but the content not showing up. If you go to https://fitwithus.com/blog/2009/06/18/choosing-a-skipping-rope/ you don’t end up at the desired article, you end up at the most recent article, which is obviously wrong. There is nothing wrong with the links per say, it’s the content that is being displayed on the next page.

I tried looking for an orderby=rand statement and didn’t find anything in my index.php file.

Made a little headway here discovered that one of the sidebar elements was what was dictating whether the frontpage items would be random or not.

<!-- posts -->
	<?php
		if (is_single()) {
			$posts_widget_title = 'Recent Posts';
		} else {
			$posts_widget_title = 'Recent Posts';
		}
	?>

	<div class="widget">
		<div class="boxContent">
		<h3><?php echo $posts_widget_title; ?></h3>
		<ul>
			<?php
				if (is_single()) {
					$posts = get_posts('numberposts=10&orderby=post_date');
				} else {
					$posts = get_posts('numberposts=5&orderby=rand');
				}
				foreach($posts as $post) {
					setup_postdata($post);
					echo '<li><a href="' . get_permalink() . '">' . get_the_title() . '</a></li>';
				}
				$post = $posts[0];
			?>
		</ul>
		</div>
</div>

I’m haven’t used WordPress or PHP for any large amount of time, but I’m guess there is a naming conflict or something going on here. Previously the sidebar had been to the right as opposed to the left, so I’m wondering if the issue might be tied to it previously being declared after the content.

Looks like I sorted it out. Moving the sidebar to be declared before the content items seemed to be the big snafu. Ended up rolling back the re-skin and positioning the sidebar using a different method.