not getting to single post view, 3.0 RC3 2010 theme

  • I’m running several pages plus one menu item showing the posts in category “Blog.” (There may be a better way to pull up all posts, but I may want to split this into 2 apparent “blogs” later.) In Twenty Ten and in several other themes I’ve tried (filtered for recent update and/or mention of 3.0), the menu works fine and clicking on menu item Blog displays the category archives.

    BUT when I click on a blog entry title, I just get a refresh of the category archives page: multiple entries, plus the same sidebar configuration.

    I haven’t messed with the Twenty Ten theme. What could be going wrong?

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  • Thread Starter marthalee

    (@marthalee)

    Thanks. I’ve been using (my own evolving) child theme of 2010, as I mentioned.

    I DO want a “static” front page. This is a business site WITH a blog, not a blog site with an About page, etc. Not a weird idea, if one’s thinking of WP as a CMS. This is an unremarkable sort of site arrangement–assorted static pages, including the front page, plus one or a few blogs–is there a “standard” or “non-weird” WP way of accomplishing that?

    Today I gave up on using the Page Attributes template picker, and decided to use sidebar.php to split out the primary sidebar widget to one group of pages (“static” pages) and the secondary one to another group (pages with posts, which turned out to be most simply done with is_archive (ALL kinds of archive) plus comments_open and pings_open to catch the posts “page” by catching its newer postings. (I’m sure there are other ways to do this, too.) After the usual php frustrations, this is working nicely, and was easy enough to style, too.

    Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

    (@ipstenu)

    ?????? Advisor and Activist

    Having a static front page isn’t weird.

    Having a ‘recent posts’ page to show your recent blog posts isn’t weird.

    Trying to make a PAGE template work for a BLOG post is weird. It just doesn’t go around that way, is all. The pages you’re using are a replacement for existing auto-generated pages, but not blog posts, which are … y’know, not the same.

    English has too few words for these things, I swear.

    Using the sidebar.php is the way to go. You may also want to use widgets and the widget logic plugin, which will let you mark certain widgets as ‘is_archive()’ and so on.

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