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Hi Bill! I received your email in Jetpack support so I’ll continue the conversation there and mark this as resolved.

Have you tried changing Settings > Reading to be either:

a) Front page displays: Your latest posts

or

b) ‘A Static Page’ and select a page under the ‘Posts page’ dropdown here instead?

I tried setting mine to ‘Your latest posts’ and that worked for me. Read more at Settings – Reading Screen

Yes, you can add some padding to that area using the following css:

.textwidget { padding-left: 10px; }

(or whatever value/format you want!)

Sure, glad you worked out a solution. I’m not sure what your previous setup was that made them display, so it’s hard to comment. But in terms of ‘why is it there,’ just think of custom fields as a place you can enter custom data. Then you have to implement a method (there are lots! a few we’ve discussed above) to access and display that data. Lots of possibilities.

I see the content on that post as well. (i.e. Editor Review, Features, Customer Support, Reliability, Awards, and all the info under those subheads)

That’s not standard use. Are you using a plugin to add this feature for you?

Okay, could you give us some direct links to posts with no content? Because every link I have tried has content…

The content is all working on this end. The homepage is full, the top ad is there, and when I click on links, they lead to content.

I see a working blog at https://www.themissingniche.com now. Did you resolve your problem?

Sorry to hear you’re having trouble, but it’s hard to give any detailed help without more information from you. These resources might help you, so read them first:

Moving WordPress
Giving WordPress Its Own Directory

If you are still having trouble, post back here with more details about the steps you took to change your address, and what happened. Good luck!

Hard to tell without some code to look at. Could you give us the code you’re using to display category listings on your category.php or archive.php page?

Make sure you enclose the code in backticks with the ‘code’ button above when you post it. If it’s a large amount of code, please use pastebin to include it instead.

Just fyi, though: you’re using a theme that doesn’t exist in the www.ads-software.com theme repository. If it’s more complex than a simple glance at code, then volunteers here on the www.ads-software.com support forums won’t be able to help you. You’ll find more specific help by going to your theme developer’s support forum.

Have you placed code in your template files to display the custom field values? If not, this is what you need to do. Custom field display code looks something like this:

<?php get_post_meta($post_id, $key, $single); ?>

You would replace the $key value with the name of your field. More info on Custom Fields here.

Make sure you create a child theme first, so that your changes are not overwritten on the next 2010 update.

If that’s not what you’re looking for (since you said you used to see this before), and you have already placed the code, then could you give us a few more details about placement, code, version, whether you’ve made recent changes to your setup, and the url of the site you’re talking about?

Have the pages been successfully imported from a database or xml file? Are you able to see the pages you’re looking for when you log into your admin area and go to the ‘Pages > All Pages’ or ‘Posts > All Posts’ screens?

If the posts are there and you can view them by clicking ‘View Post’, then you could look at two things which might be simple fixes:

a) It might be a problem where your permalinks need updating. Go to Settings > Permalinks in the admin area and choose the format you want, then click the Save Changes button.

b) Make sure the actual links to the content match the links in your custom menu section. Appearance > Menus
If it’s unclear, then create a new menu to test it out.

On the other hand, if the posts are not in your admin area, then you’ll need to tell us exactly what steps you followed to restore them. Let us know!

That depends: how are you applying these changes? Are you using a custom css plugin, or are you editing the original theme files? Are all your changes still in the css files, and are they placed AFTER the css that they are supposed to override?

(If you’re editing the theme files themselves, stop right there and create a child theme! Otherwise, you’ll lose your changes anytime the original theme is updated.)

I don’t know of any plugins, but if you are editing your own themes, you could use a conditional statement to determine which widgets are shown on each author’s archive page: Conditional Tags

If you provide more information, I could try to help a bit better:
–url of the site
–setup (are you editing your own theme? a child theme?)
–where do these widgets need to appear? (single post page, author archive, etc)
–how many authors are we talking about?
–what is the content for the widgets like?