No infinite handle button

How many posts do you have? If they are less than what is set in your Admin Dashboard in Settings > Reading, then the bar will not show

If you have set “Blog pages show at most” to 6 and you only have 5, then the bar doesn’t show.
If you set “Blog pages show at most” to 4 and you only have 5, then the bar will show.

I took a look at royby.com and was able to scroll to see 10 posts, with the oldest one being “Christmas is upon us”. Do you have any published posts older than that?

Hi Kathryn, yes there are many more than 10 posts. That’s my problem, the infinite handle button is missing. I just inspected the code and I see that it’s not coded in for some reason.

Hi NeoTechnomad

I have many posts, this is a very old blog. The settings is set to “10” and that’s how many posts are visible, but alas, no infinite handle button

I tested Boardwalk on my test site and the “more posts” button was displayed and worked as expected – here’s a screenshot:

I tested with Jetpack’s Infinite Scroll on and off, both worked well.

It looks like you have Infinite Scroll in Jetpack active.

But for some reason, your Infinite Scroll navigation is being hidden in your CSS:

.infinite-scroll .paging-navigation {
    display: none;
}

Have you made any edits to theme files or added any custom CSS? If so, undo them or reinstall a fresh copy of the theme.

If that doesn’t work, you could try temporarily deactivating all your plugins. Does the problem persist? If the problem is gone, reactivate your plugins one-by-one, look at the site in between each reactivation, to find the conflict.

If none of the above helps find the culprit, adding this to your child theme’s custom CSS should un-hide the pagination. It would be better to find the root of the problem, but this should work:

.infinite-scroll .paging-navigation {
  display: inherit;
}

Let me know how it goes.

Hi Katherine

thanks very much for your help

I have no custom CSS so on impulse I deactivated Jetpacks infinite scroll and “viola” – the button appears and it works. Strange huh?

anyway, it’s working now and I can get on and enjoy playing with the theme

Once again, thanks for helping
cheers – roy

Hi Katherine

I should add that with jetpack enabled my edit post screen is blank in visual mode when using the browser to access the admin. I notice from the forums this has been an issue for a long time.

However, if I use the new WordPress.com app this is not an issue so I guess I just need to get used to using the app. Problem is the app doesn’t do all things. EG you can’t create a gallery using the app.

Anyway, just thought I’d mention it cos the issue has bugged me for ages now

cheers – roy

I should add that with jetpack enabled my edit post screen is blank in visual mode when using the browser to access the admin. I notice from the forums this has been an issue for a long time.

Your Visual Editor should definitely not be blank. Various things can trigger this issue, sometimes a corrupted JavaScript file or one that was not downloaded completely. You could try reinstalling a fresh copy of Jetpack. If that doesn’t work, you could contact Jetpack support so they can help troubleshoot, if you’d like to get the issue sorted:
https://jetpack.me/contact-support/

There is also a custom CSS module built into Jetpack if that’s something you’re looking for.

Good luck!

Also, when I earlier mentioned “adding this to your child theme’s custom CSS should un-hide the pagination” – I meant that since you already have a child theme set up, you can add any CSS to the child theme’s stylesheet. There’s no need for a separate custom CSS plugin – you would add it to this file, below the existing comments:

https://royby.com/wp-content/themes/boardwalk-child/style.css

Hi Kathryn

thanks so much for your help

I will contact jetpack support re that issue and also because I can’t get carousel to work with this theme

cheers – roy

You’re very welcome, and good luck getting this sorted.

Hi Kathryn

By way of follow up I’ve solved all my issues with using Jetpack with Boardwalk theme and a lot of other issues as well. The site was on a multisite install and I suspected this may be the issue so I bit the bullet and changed it to a single install. How right I was, everything now works well and ten times faster. A lesson learned.

cheers

Glad everything’s running smoothly now, thanks for following up!