• Resolved gtra1n

    (@gtra1n)


    I discovered this problem while trying to set up a static page: at my site, my “Blog” tab is the the current homepage itself, but that tab does NOT show up under my list of All Pages. I can make a new page, set that page as the static home page, but the actual “Blog” – the page with the posts on it – does not show up on the drop-down menu for selecting a Posts Page . . . because it doesn’t exist under Pages!

    I imagine this is easy to fix, but I don’t even know where to go to fix it (database? templates?). Thanks for any ideas and advice.

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  • Thread Starter gtra1n

    (@gtra1n)

    I fixed this by changing the ‘show_home’ argument to “Home” in functions.php of the Twenty Eleven theme. This gave me a navigation bar title of Home for the static home page and Blog for the blogposts page (previously, nav bar labelled each as “Blog”).

    Do not edit the Twenty Eleven theme. It is the default WordPress 3.2 theme and having access to an unedited version of the theme is vital when dealing with a range of site issues.

    For this reason, it is recommended that you consider creating a child theme for your customisations. Once your child theme is active, we should be able to help with the customisation.

    Thread Starter gtra1n

    (@gtra1n)

    I have changed functions.php back, but more specifically I made the ‘show_home’ argument “‘true'”; this matches the file on my localhost installation, but the functions.php file at my server installation showed the argument as “‘home'” – this was not an edit that I made, but perhaps the source of my original problem. I have no idea how that change got into the functions file.

    Now, with ‘true,’ my fix is holding, but I do want to point out that the edit you are warning against actually did fix the problem, and the problem was an actual case of the software not responding as indicated to actual settings.

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