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Thanks for the speedy replies. This is the page. It’s the green section under the large photo “Latest from the blog.” If you’ll check the source, I’m not able to add at least a line break between the links.

https://www.addiva.net/blog/home/

I found it! There was a little glitch in the template code.

?php wp_meta(); ?>
<?php /* If this is the frontpage */
if ( is_home() || is_page() ) { ?>
<?php get_links_list(); ?>

There’s no resolution to the if statement, so since this wasn’t the index of the blog or a page, it didn’t know what to do next and just hung there. I took out the if statement and a <?php } ?> that was at the very bottom of the footer to get it to work. There was never any need for an if there, anyway.

I’m surprised there weren’t more pages breaking.

I found this plugin, but can’t recommend it as I haven’t used it:

https://www.brianshoff.com/wordpress/category-base-removal-plugin.htm

I tried this, and then messed around with every variation on a custom permalink structure I could think of, but nothing worked. Oddly, on occasion I would get the first link in the list to work, but then the others wouldn’t work.

I still don’t understand, if wp needs the year/month/day thing in the address to find the post, why is it converting all that to ‘category’ which it can’t read. What could be hanging up the little process that substitutes the year/month/day it needs?

We did a one-click upgrade of wp on Dreamhost.

I know this is another topic, but I’m wondering if it might be a clue to what’s going on here. I also can’t get the <!–More–> function to work. I have ‘summary’ set in the reading settings, but it still displays the entire post on the index.php page.

I’ve been doing that, re-saving the permalinks settings. Still a URL using “categories” instead of the date format comes up blank. I get my header, sidebar and footer but there’s no content coming through.

The permalink structure is:

https://www.addiva.net/blog/2008/07/11/sample-post/

Thanks so much for helping.

Could it be significant that I can see no .htaccess in the same root with the blog?

How do I go about rebuilding the permalinks? I don’t believe anything special was done with the permalink structure other than setting it to the name and date setting.

Beautiful, worked like a charm. Thank you so much.

A kind soul supplied me with the code:

<?php
$parent_title = get_the_title($post->post_parent);
echo $parent_title;
?>

I guess for some reason it doesn’t consider that a first page, but a category page, I added is_category to that statement and it works now. It would be more concise to just take the whole ‘if’ business out, but when I tried to I screwed up the syntax, so I went this simpler route.

I’m looking at my sidebar.php

<?php /* If this is the frontpage */ if ( is_home() || is_page() ) { ?>
<?php wp_list_bookmarks(); ?>

• <h2>Meta</h2>

<?php wp_register(); ?>
• <?php wp_loginout(); ?>
• <?php wp_meta(); ?>

<?php } ?>

<?php endif; ?>

which is saying that the Meta links should appear on the first page, but the opposite is happening. The meta links are showing on every other page BUT the first page. Anybody have a clue what could be happening here?

Did you ever find an answer to this? I’m in the same situation. I’ve got a large vbulletin site with 40,000 posts, already well-indexed by the engines. I’d love to organize the non-forum parts of the site with a CMS with a navigation bar that will be visible to forum visitors.

I don’t really know. I am using a free template that is set up that way. I don’t know why there are two variations on this and how to decide when to use which.

Thanks for responding. Unfortunately, I couldn’t get most of those links to open.

I’m thinking that what I need to do is just let the loop play out, then add a conditional statement is_home that causes a table to display with three columns that would display an excerpt from the most recent posts from three different categories. I’m afraid I don’t have enough PHP experience to get the syntax straight.

I’ve looked at a few of the existing templates out there that seem to be doing what I’m talking about, but I can’t make heads or tails of how they’re doing it.

Sorry, I figured it out late last night. I went into admin and specified how many posts I wanted shown. I should have remembered to come back here so you wouldn’t have had to bother answering me. Thanks for the response.