MattSimpson

Why not just artificially set the dates of subsequent postings to be further back in time?

Same problem here – very annoying

I’m having the same problem too. I’ve tried some plugins (e.g. Advanced Permalinks). But I can’t figure out how to get rid of the parent page slug in the URL.

Solution is here – https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/120459

hakre, thank you very much. This is the solution that’s best for my scenario. In addition to the reasons you mention, for each view I won’t have to manage a plugin that over rides a universal rule.

Thank you. That worked for the homepage.

I have CQS installed. I create a condition where is_archive Show -1 posts per page, ordered by date DESC. Then I click on the march archives.

It only shows the latest post, when there are actually 5 posts in March.

https://wordpress.pastebin.ca/976393

I set the # of posts to 1

I edited index.php
– within index.php, I changed the first 2 lines to read

<?php get_header(); ?>
<?php $withcomments = TRUE; ?>

I saved all changes… refreshed the site….

And there are no comments.

Within https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/128143?replies=4#post-702180 there is a statement… “You include <?php comments_template(); ?> in the posts loop”

I don’t know how to do that. I don’t know what “the posts loop” is. Is that a file? Is that a pattern in a file? Is that this?

<div class="postdata"><span class="category"><?php the_category(', ') ?></span>  <span class="comments"><?php comments_popup_link('No Comments »', '1 Comment »', '% Comments »'); ?></span></div>
		  </div>
          <div class="entry">
            <?php the_content('Continue reading &raquo;'); ?>

            <p class="submeta">written by <strong><?php the_author(); ?></strong>
			<?php
				if(function_exists("the_tags"))
					the_tags('\\\\ tags: ', ', ', '<br />');
			?>
         </p>

          </div><!--/entry -->
        </div><!--/post -->

I tried it. moshu, I also read all those pages in the search results. I’m telling you, there is no solution there. I looked. What I did find is a number of threads where the problem wasn’t solved. And in a number of them there were posts where you also pointed people at the search results. I didn’t find any solution presented.

Some of the knowledge you have shared here was helpful. Thank you.

The redirect works. And hakre’s solution works.

Maybe I’ll have to go send my web authors into cPanel and use the option to edit a file within file manager. But something tells me that the redirect is less risky.

I edit with 2 other people on the site.

I’d rather not have to ask them to edit the php on the web server with each posting.

With a redirect, any web author has UI within wordpress to edit the target URL.

Ah ha! It worked!

And now, I just realized that this method requires the ID to be set within a php file on the web server. This isn’t something I can expose to web authors.

Hmmmmmm….. now, how can I expose this

/* use post with ID 1 as homepage */
query_posts(‘p=1’);

How can I allow web authors to set p=
?

Moshu, I understand that we edit template files in a plain text editor. But I didn’t see the advanced option described above, so I tried this. And if failed of course.

Now that you pointed out where the Template selection was, I could follow the directions above…

Now login your admin, write a new page and entitle it as “Homepage”. Under Advanced Options select Homepage Post in the Page Template dropdown. Then publish the page.

Now switch to Settings -> Reading and in the Reading Settings under Front page displays select A static page (select below) and then in the Front page dropdown select Homepage. Then press the Save Changes button below to save the changes made.

Now visit your site (press the Visit Site Button on top). Your homepage should now display the post with the ID 1 like the URL of this post has been entered directly.

The result was, when I went to my homepage…

Sorry, no posts matched your criteria.

Like I mentioned above, this seems to work, a page that simply does…

<meta HTTP-EQUIV=”REFRESH” content=”0; url=https://www.example.com/index.html”>

However, the concern is that this is somehow the wabi sabi rather than the proper & elegant solution.

Nope – these options are not here – maybe you are using a different version of WordPress? 2.5?

https://images.dogearnation.net/writepageadvanced.png

I’m using an hosting service that is using Fantastico Delux to handle the WordPress installations. And 2.5 isn’t available yet. .

I also tried to explore the EasyRedirect pluging again. It seems like the download is nowhere to be found.

Now login your admin, write a new page and entitle it as “Homepage”. Under Advanced Options select Homepage Post in the Page Template dropdown.

I could not do this. I went to Write > Write page…
and then could not access or find anything labeled “Advanced Options”

I wonder if I can just write this code on the page… nope… didn’t work.