Dave

Thanks Zach. Were you able to find the problem? It looks like I’m seeing relevant results now, as shown in this new article about Chianti, but would appreciate hearing from you too.

Excellent — turns out the “front page” tag was key. I’d received initial advice with “home” instead and that wasn’t doing the trick. Thanks!

Hey Reuben, yes I did.

And I just got a suggestion back from a friend, which turned out to fix the issue.

have a look at your .htaccess file in the root of your WP site and check if they are different from these:

# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ – [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>
# END WordPress

If they are substitute em with the above, then check again.

Update: I contacted the guys behind the redirect plugin I mentioned, and they indicated that if the plugin was deleted, it shouldn’t be the cause of this problem. They also had me try resetting my permalinks, and deleting my .htaccess file, but neither approach fixed it.

I’ve been browsing new magazine/newspaper style themes, which is the direction I’m headed, and I think the solution presented so far, while simple, wouldn’t work easily with what I really want to do. (please correct me if I’m wrong)

I want my homepage, https://www.gobackpacking.com to act as a table of contents for the blog. In this way, visitors can fully navigate the menu options which link to the various pages of my blog.

Am I still making this more difficult than it needs to be?

That was silly, but it worked. Thanks!

Hey ravidreams,

Thanks for the quick response – it makes sense and sounds pretty easy to do. Only now, I’m having second thoughts about whether my current theme is ideal for that arrangement. At least I know what to do when the time comes.

I would like to know the answer to this too.

Bump – please help – I have no idea how to resolve my access issue and I do not want to make things worse by playing around with the WordPress files.

CORRECTION – I had set the login page through the plugin to be https://www.gobackpacking.com/Blog/login

Thanks for checking. I swear I’m not crazy!

No sooner did I put a message on my theme index page explaining the problem, then did it fix itself. Either that, or when I moved a “recent posts” widget higher in the sidebar, it shook things back to their newest-to-oldest natural order.

*resolved*

Oh duh, I only see the # of posts and comments every day!

Thanks for drawing my attention to that stat.

I fixed it! If anyone uses Text Link Ads, then the fix to the problem I wrote about above is to adjust the width in the style tag of the code you get from TLA. I dropped it from 100% to 65% and the problem was solved.

echo “\n<ul style=\”list-style: none; margin: 0; border: 0px; border-spacing: 0px; background-color: #F0F0F0; padding: 0; width: 65%; overflow: hidden;\”>\n”;

I’ve figured out the IFrame is not the problem, but rather some text ads I have running atop the main index page (and other pages). It seems as though it’s pushing to the right a sliver off the right sidebar, and as a result, extending the page width (and it’s associated dark grey bg color).

Does anyone know how I can correct this formatting issue??