kristie

Okay, just to clarify for any future users who may have this problem:

If you want to put a list of recent posts using the “get_posts” tag within your sidebar, then your sidebar MUST occur AFTER your main blog content area in your PHP document. In other words, get header, then the post data, then get sidebar, then get footer. For some reason if the sidebar is called BEFORE the blog content, it interferes with the way links normally work. I always wondered why all public themes put the sidebar so far down on the page, right before the footer. Now I see that there is a good reason for it.

Most likely it was a missing or an extra “end” statement.

Okay, so I figured out it had something to do with listing the recent posts in the sidebar. I took that bit of code out and the links work 100% fine.

What a huge relief!

This is what led me in the right direction:
https://codex.www.ads-software.com/The_Loop_in_Action

There’s a bit that says if you forget to end your “while” statement it will only show the last post. I looked all over for stray “ends”, and found it after the call for recent posts.

I am having the exact same issue on the site I am designing for my client:

https://weirdmirror.org/blog/

Please tell me what you did to resolve this, as it would be extremely helpful.