Navigation will not work on blog page

Try resetting your custom permalinks back to the default setting via Settings -> Permalinks. If this works, then review Using_Permalinks before setting a custom permalink structure back up again.

Thank you – I tried this, but it is still doing the same thing, just with the default permalinks now.

https://rachaelherron.com/blog

404 Error File Not Found
The page you are looking for might have been removed,
had its name changed, or is temporarily unavailable.

This is the ugly permalink for the blog page:

https://rachaelherron.com/?page_id=5781

Where exactly did you install WordPress on this domain? I can’t see any signs of it in the domain’s root folder. Did you install it in a sub-folder?

Yes. it’s in a subfolder called wordpress.

So what did you do to get it to run (badly) from the root domain?

I followed the instructions here: https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Giving_WordPress_Its_Own_Directory under using a pre-existing subdirectory install.

I should add that the site has been running fine for a year or so – the nav issue is a new one.

What do you have set for the site’s front page via Settings -> Reading?

Front page is set to a static page called home, Posts page is set to blog.

What is the url of your static front page?

What urls have you used in settings -> General?

the static front page url is rachaelherron.com

settings -> General
wordpress address is https://rachaelherron.com/wordpress
Site address is https://rachaelherron.com

Akismet was not deactivated. I just deactivated it and the links are working now from the blog page. could that have caused the issue?

thanks for your help.

Who carried out the changes to allow WordPress to take over the root domain? I’m not convinced that it was carried out correctly.

I did – what seems incorrect?

Near the end of the “move”, you are asked to copy some files into the root of your domain. Are you sure you copied these files? Or did you move them? Was the copied index.php file amended to suit the new location?