MultiMatt

zuhu,
I know you assumed WordPress was well aware of the issue, but given the fact that there is still no answer and no acknowledgement from that I can find, I don’t think we’re going to get an answer any time soon.

It’s sad to have this happen, and even sadder that we can’t seem to find out what is wrong and how to fix it. I appreciate everyone’s attempts to help here, but thus far, I’m screwed. Site broken and I hadn’t done anything to break it!

I appreciate your quick responses in attempt to help me!

BUT,

I’ve had this site (blog) running in the same setup for nearly two years, and I’ve never had the Posts page set to anything in the Reading settings. I purposely left it blank! I didn’t want a page with posts to appear in the menu along with all of the “static” pages I created.
If you look at my menuing: https://kentuckyassociationforenvironmentaleducation.org/?page_id=7
you’ll see how I have it set up, and it’s been working fine that way all this time.

That’s what baffles me – I changed nothing, period, and this weird anomally happened. The only changes I have made in the past several months has been adding posts to categories such as News and Other EE Events from Around the State. That’s it! I have created no additional pages, I have deleted no pages, and I have not been in the Admin Control panel to change anything!

Doesn’t matter which pages I choose for Static and Posts, whatever becomes static will now only show posts.

I just don’t get it! I could understand if I screwed with something, but I didn’t, and this suddenly happened! When it did happen about a month ago, I hadn’t made any edits in several weeks! One day it was displaying fine, the next day, my home page is the latest posts.

End of novel!

I am lost when it comes to looking at the database in PHPMyAdmin. I see those different fields (Option-ID, Blog-ID, Option_name, Option_value, Autoload) in the wp-options table, but as far as editing to check what the static page nr/ID is, I have no clue!

On my original settings, before all this began, I had my page titled HOME set as the static page (ID 7), and I had nothing selected for the posts page, because I would post to numerous categories, not just one particular page per se.

Since then, I have tried creating a new blank page (called TEST), and setting it as the posts page, and still no improvement.
I then tried selecting the TEST page to be the static page. When I did that, the HOME page link would now go to the correct path (https://kentuckyassociationforenvironmentaleducation.org/?page_id=7), and if you click on TEST, it (incorrectly) displays the most recent posts.

Obviously changing settings via the control panel is not writing to the database correctly, right? I REALLY need to get this right – the group I do the site for is freaking out! Can you provide a little more explanation on how to edit that table?

And I am still concerned as to how this could have happened when I made no changes to the site, yet one day it just starts showing like that! A database driven site has proven to be WAY more work for me than the old-fashioned way of using Dreamweaver to simply update pages! UGH!

Thanks in advance for any help you can provide!

It just seems to me that there’s a .php file somewhere that needs overwriting, which has some code in it to call up the right static page (or call up the latest posts, whichever the author chooses). I feel like I am going to open up a can of worms and have hours of re-work ahead of me if I change that theme!

Everything works right on the site, with exception of the chosen static page not displaying… it’s got to be one line of code somewhere, but WHERE is the question! ??

Thanks for the tip on the line 1831 error!

Question on switching the theme: I spent a bit of time tweaking some settings on the nonzero green theme I am using. I THINK I should be ok, because obviously the files I tweaked were within that specific theme folder in the wp-content directory, but I just wanted to check: If I switch themes, then switch back, will everything go back to the way I had it set?

I didn’t actually hard code anything – when you create a new page, it gives the page an id, hence the Home page was the 7th page I ended up making!

I tried your suggestion and nothing changed.
Backed up my files and MySQL database, then went ahead and installed version 2.9. I chose the Install Automatically, and had the following error message:

Warning: gzuncompress() [function.gzuncompress]: data error in (edited the path for this post)/html/wp-includes/http.php on line 1831
WordPress upgraded successfully

Nothing has changed. Here is an interesting finding, if it helps:

I went into the Reading settings and changed the static Front Page to be the Board of Directors page. Refreshed and viewed the site. It still erroneously showed the latest posts, BUT I discovered that I could now click on Home and go to page_id=7 and see the home page! If I clicked on the BOD page, it went back to the latest posts. SO, it appears that it doesn’t matter WHICH page I choose for the static Front Page, it ends up in the same scenario – wrongly showing the most recent posts instead of a static page.

Any other suggestions? I am stumped…

Yes, I have several pages that I have created over time, and all of them show in the drop-down for Front Page, including Home (other pages such as Contact Us, Membership, Newsletter, etc).

I’ve tried selecting any of those pages to be the Front Page as well, and nothing changes. It’s like I’m stuck in “Your Latest Posts” mode or something!

I wouldn’t think this has anything to do with being slightly outdated on my WP version, but perhaps something corrupted? These people I do the site for are freaking out that the Home page is not looking right! I’m swamped at my “real” gig, so I need to figure out a quick fix, and hopefully can upgrade WP somewhere in the next few weeks or something.

UPDATE: I went to the site and navigated around some, to see what would happen. Interestingly enough, MOST of the other “pages” display just fine, with the exception of About Us. It does the same thing as Home – displays only the most recent posts. All other pages (Board of Directors, CONFERENCE, Contact Us, KAEE Awards, KAEE’s Stories, Membership, Newsletter, Resources/Links) display just fine.
Thought that info might be helpful in determining the root cause…

Thanks!

Regarding the empty folders, there WAS something wrong!

I re-downloaded the 2.7.1 upgrade zip file and extracted it again – there were all sorts of files in those folders, as expected!

Just goes to show why they emphasize double-checking file integrity before doing an upgrade! In this case it was not my backup files, but the new files, and wow, that would have made a mess!

I have upgraded sucessfully (at least all appears well!).

thanks!
Matt

I just completed upgrading to 2.7.1 on this particular site, so hopefully I can now address this overlap issue.

Any ideas?

THANK YOU Figaro! You put me at ease! I will upgrade tonight when at home.

Matt

I’ve had a nickname in there for a while now – “Matt Coddington” – the thing that strikes me as odd is how this just began yesterday. I’ve not done anything with users since last week, and suddenly this began…

UPDATE: I just went into my profile and simply hit Update User (without making any changes), and suddenly my name appears in the drop-down menu! Not sure what happened there, but at least I’m back to being the actual author! ??