WordPress – clicking on blog page shows blank page

  • Resolved jimmyjamesjimmy

    (@jimmyjamesjimmy)


    4 years, 2 months ago

    Was wondering if anyone has experience with this one.

    I recently migrated a WordPress website to a new host. Everything seems to be working normally, except the blog page.
    The menu on homepage has a link to Blog. When I click on the link it takes me to website.com/categories/blog which is a blank page. If I manually visit website.com/blog all the blog items show up fine.

    If I go to appearance then menus, then scroll down to blog in the menu structure, I can see it says “Original” blog post and if I hover over that it says website.com/categories/blog but is not editable.

    My gut feeling is either the categories are not applying to the current blog url or I need to update the blog url to just website.com/blog. However, I’m not sure how to do this.

    Anyone know where I should be looking and what I need to edit?

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  • Hello @jimmyjamesjimmy,

    The quickest way to change this is to:

    • Visit Appearance > Menus inside your WordPress Admin dashboard
    • Under Select a menu to edit, please select Main Menu, which I’m pretty sure is the name of your site’s primary menu based on the code I can see in my browser’s developer tools
    • Delete the current Blog menu item
    • Under Add menu items on the left of the page, select Blog – Posts Page and click the Add to Menu button:
    • A new menu item titled Blog should appear at the end/bottom of the other menu items under the Menu structure section
    • Drag and drop the Blog menu item between FAQ’s (is this correct? shouldn’t it be FAQs?) and About Us or wherever you’d like to position it on the menu
    • Click the Save Menu button at the top or bottom of the MMenu structure section

    That should change the menu to display the correct Blog link.

    Thread Starter jimmyjamesjimmy

    (@jimmyjamesjimmy)

    @nm1com

    Thank you Niall Madhoo that fixed it!

    You’re welcome!

    If your question has been answered, it would be great if you would mark this topic as resolved in the sidebar. This helps the forum’s volunteers find the topics that still need attention and more people will get helped, possibly like you did.

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