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Can you log into your hosting company’s administrator dashboard and edit the SQL database directly, such as via phpMyAdmin?

I don’t believe static home pages were an inbuilt function until 2.1 or 2.2. For earlier installations of WordPress, upgrade ?? or use this plug-in:

https://www.semiologic.com/software/publishing/static-front/

In what way does it not work? Does WordPress generate an error? Do your permalinks become dysfunctional? Is static text not working? Could you give some examples of the permalink structures you’re trying?

If you navigate to example.com/wp-admin/options-general.php and both your WordPress and Blog addresses have www. in them, I don’t know why this problem should be occurring. But as an alternative, you can always try this plugin:

https://www.ads-software.com/extend/plugins/enforce-www-preference/

I suspect you could edit your theme’s archive.php file to display the title and permalink if there is one, or the post ID if there isn’t. I’m not a PHP programmer, though, so I won’t attempt to write you code that I know wouldn’t work. ??

Also make sure your wp-settings.php file is present.

I don’t know if WordPress is supposed to handle forwarding the old permalink structure to the new one, but in my experience, this plugin has met my needs for that function:

https://scott.yang.id.au/code/permalink-redirect/

This question is answered here:

https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/100642?replies=8#post-654277

Migration of my old site (500+ HTML files) to WordPress is complete! Thanks to all who made suggestions. The final product is at https://www.gamebits.net/

Migration of my old site (500+ HTML files) to WordPress is complete! Thanks to all who made suggestions. The final product is at https://www.gamebits.net/

See this thread:

https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/97794?replies=4

Michael, thanks for the expert advice! I opened wp-admin/edit-pages.php and, on line 68, changed the value from “-1” to “1”. My administrative dashboard proved this worked by listing only one of my many pages.

The downside? There was no navigation to access additional pages – no “previous entries” or “next entries” buttons. So on line 90 of edit-pages.php, I added this code:

<div class=”navigation”>
<div class=”alignleft”><?php next_posts_link(__(‘« Previous Entries’)) ?></div>
<div class=”alignright”><?php previous_posts_link(__(‘Next Entries »’)) ?></div>
</div>

I didn’t know if it would work, since it calls for next_posts_link and not next_pages_link (which doesn’t exist). But it *does* seem to work! Thanks!

If anyone can find a reason why I shouldn’t be doing this, I’d be interested to know more about this page and its functionality.

Update: I may’ve spoken too soon… I’m getting wonky behavior when setting the posts_per_page to a value other than -1 or 1. I’ll work on this some more…

I finally got the redirection I wanted to occur using either of these methods: using this plugin:

https://urbangiraffe.com/plugins/redirection/

to process a regular expression redirecting /(.*).shtml to /$1/

or adding to the server’s .htaccess file these two lines:

RewriteRule ^404\.shtml$ – [L]
RewriteRule (.*)\.shtml /$1 [R=301,L]

I went to Google.com and typed in the URL for each individual page I was missing. For example:

https://www.msongini.com/about/

https://www.msongini.com/press/

https://www.msongini.com/category/blog/

Google should give you back that URL as a hit, with the last line having two links: “Cached” and “Similar pages”. Click on “Cached”. If it was recently that you deleted your page, Google may have the old version you’re trying to restore. If it’s been too long, though, you may be outta luck.

Of course, it’s best to rely on your own backups, not Google’s or even (as I learned) your hosting company’s. Consider one (or both!) of these:

https://www.ilfilosofo.com/blog/wp-db-backup

https://www.navicat.com/

Besides Akismet, I use a combination of these three plugins:

https://mtdewvirus.com/code/wordpress-plugins/
https://sw-guide.de/wordpress/plugins/simple-trackback-validation/
https://blogwaffe.com/2006/10/04/421/

I’m not sure which one of them works, but somehow, all my spam trackbacks and pingbacks are being appropriately held for moderation. ??

Thanks! I had did a search for page-related plugins but hadn’t seen that one. Taking a look at its site and the documentation enclosed in the download, I see that it lets me customize the columns that are outputted – but I don’t see any option to limit the number of rows. Hmm.