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hi esmi,

yeah, i tried it with the default theme, and the problem was still there.

i dont really have a lot of plugins on this particular blog:
allinoneseo, googleanalytics, googlexmlsitemaps, wordpressstats, sociable, wp-cache, plaintextpaste.

just finished upgrading to the latest core.

but i got so much spam since disabling akismet yesterday, that i may have to turn it back on.

Dóh.

Worked out what the second drop-down field was for, on Settings/Reading.

If you’ve nominated that the front page is something else, you then need to nominate which page is the posts page.

simpsons moment.

Now to work out how to put the last 5 posts at the bottom of the home page.

hi thee17,

Yes I had created a new page template, called blog.
Copied the index.php template, so that it has the identical LOOP.

I then created a page called /blog/.
I updated the /blog/ page to use the template called blog.

But whereas I would have expected it to display all the blog posts on /blog/, it simply displays the sentence I had at the top of the /blog/ page.

I’ve added comments to my blog page template, to prove that it got inside the loop.
But the loop is only executing once.
It’s only displaying the content from the /blog/ page.
Not retrieving and displaying the posts.

Could there be some global variable that is restricting posts from displaying on a page?

mine is not authenticating either.

freshly upgraded to wordpress 2.7 and twitter tools 1.5.1a

ok. see https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/189058?replies=1 .

did as suggested – added the words category and tag to those fields in the permalink page and all is fine.

ditto.

just in dev environment so far.

excellent link thanks haochi.

i used the query dump to show that it wasn’t individual queries with the problem.

i used the wp-cron test call to prove that it was a problem in access, and most probably dns related.

then the server guy remotely fixed the dns entries from home. dóh.

are there any tools that people can recommend to analyse where the blockage is?

our server guy is sick today, so i’m not sure what tools are generally available.

i used charles, but it showed that it wasnt the loading of css files or images that slows things down. all charles shows is that there is a latency of 20 seconds before a response is received. and then the css and images load quickly.

i’d love to know if the problem is in actually connecting to the database, or the individual calls. or anything.