kurts54321

I am also having a problem with WP 3.9.1. Looking through the page debug stuff I’m getting “Uncaught TypeError: undefined is not a function” twice, in edit.php?page=cal:1016 and 1025. I think they trace back to using an old version of jQuery (1.7.1) (Current version is 1.11.1, I think WP is loading 1.10.something).

As for conflicting plugins, the only ones I’m running that have any effect here are JetPack and Wordfence. If I have to look at which plugin to get rid of it ain’t gonna be one of those.

Well, I found the problem. The Event Calendar plugin (version 3.1._rc4) was the cause of the problem. Deactivating the plugin fixed the problem.

Now I’m left with how to deal with my events. There is a newer release of this plugin, which I may try. Or I may try dealing with event listing differently. I don’t know just yet.

Thanks to moshu and Otto42 for your assistance!

moshu,

Switching the theme to one of those provided with the WP software is a good idea.

I switched to the Default theme, which I uploaded along with WP 2.3.2. The functionality remained the same as with my customized theme. This suggests that the problem is not with the theme, but with the software installation.

I have since switched back to my custom theme. I am traveling these next two days, and need to leave the site in a known condition (even if the blog portion doesn’t work). When I return I plan to reinstall WP 2.3.2 as a clean install. If that doesn’t work I’ll be downgrading back to the earlier release.

moshu,

Re: #3 – I have a template file called home.php. It is an ordinary Page that does not display any posts. It is used by Options >> Reading >> Front Page. I have not changed it in any way since the upgrade from 2.0.0 to 2.3.2.

Regarding your second question – testblog is not redirecting to Blog. It is coming up as 404. It just so happens that 404.php fakes the navigation bar so that it appears to be a page missing from the Blog. (That confused me for a moment also, and then I realized what I’d done. The earlier release of WP had problems with is_page() for things like this, so I tweaked the header to make things work the way I want.)

I’m also finding other oddities as I try to diagnose this. For example, TinyMCE sometimes works on the Page/Post editor, and sometimes it doesn’t. Likewise when I do a search in the Manage >> Pages list I get Posts as well as Pages in the results list. Stuff like that.

I think I’m going to scrub the entire installation and start over. Either that or downgrade back to 2.0.0. I can’t think of anything else to do!

Here’s the latest test:

1) I created an empty Page called “testblog”. It uses the “Default” template. I also changed the template of the “blog” page from “Blog” (the template shown earlier) to “Default”.

2) I changed the Options >> Reading >> Posts page to be “testblog”. I left the Front page to be “Home” (which is the front page of my website and which does NOT display any posts.)

3) I displayed the Front page (https://urbanvillagescooters.com). This updated the page navigation links at the top to include “testblog” as one of the listed pages.

4) I clicked on the “testblog” link (https://urbanvillagescooters.com/testblog) and received a 404 error.

5) I then backed up and clicked on the “Blog” link (https://urbanvillagescooters.com/blog) and got to the empty “blog” page (it shows up as an ordinary page).

I will leave these pages unchanged for a few hours so you can check them out for yourself and see what I mean.

moshu,

That’s what I’m doing. The Filosofo plugin is deactivated. I am not using any plugin to do this.

Another thing: It appears that the search is busted as well. No matter what search I do it returns “No posts found.”

More and more I’m getting the feeling that the blog is messed up. It works fine as a CMS – displaying and editing Pages – and it will display posts accessed via their Permalinks, but searching and listing posts doesn’t seem to work.

I’ll keep poking at it and post my results here. Any and all suggestions are welcome!

moshu,

I am trying to use WordPress as a CMS for my website, with the blog being a “subdirectory” underneath it. I DON’T want my Front Page (at https://urbanvillagescooters.com) to display my posts.

I DO want to have a Posts page, located at https://urbanvillagescooters.com/blog that will show my latest posts. That is the setup I had using WordPress 2.0.0 and the Filosofo plugin, and that’s the functionality I’m trying to achieve with the current WordPress release.

As I understand it, the Posts page is supposed to be where the “root” of the blog posts lives. Is this correct?

Ok, first there’s an extra ?> line in the middle of the above template.

Second, the template is from WordPress Pages Documentation.

As an experiment I set my Posts page (in Options >> Reading) to my FAQ page. When I did that, going to https://urbanvillagescooters.com/blog resulted in a failed search (instead of a 404 page) while going to the FAQ page returned 404. Switching the Posts page back to the Blog page made the FAQ work correctly and the blog return 404.

Any thoughts?

This is the template I’m using for the blog that I’m having problems with:

<?php
/*
Template Name: Blog
*/
?>

// Which page of the blog are we on?
$paged = get_query_var('paged');
query_posts('cat=-0&paged='.$paged);

// make posts print only the first part with a link to rest of the post.
global $more;
$more = 0;

//load index to show blog
load_template(TEMPLATEPATH . '/index.php');
?>

I wonder if it is the problem. All the rest of my templates are much more substantial, meaning they have a lot more code.

Could index.php be missing? Could that be generating the 404 error?

Update: It appears that the only page with a problem is the root page of the blog (see the link above). I have no problem accessing individual posts via their permalinks.