Wynnefield

I downloaded the full site to my local server, and after examining the wp-config file, the database and id no longer matched?? Someone else had changed the database and admin account without realizing its affects on WP. (oops!)

I appreciate your suggestions, esmi.

Thank you,

Wynne

I am having a problem seeing any home page (index.php). Before downloading the site to a local server, I connected FTP via Dreamweaver.

I changed the index.php page to index_save.php and replaced it with an index.html, which displayed just fine. However, when I changed the name of index.html to index_save.html and returned index_save.php to index.php, I am having all sorts of problems.

I did not touch any configuration pages, database connections, etc. Please advise.

Thank you in advance.

Sincerely,

Wynne
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Thank you so very much, esmi. I sincerely appreciate your time and the rapid response to my question. As soon as I changed the Permalinks setting back to “Default” all the links were immediately repaired!

I will pour through the reference you posted regarding the use of Permalinks before I implement them again. Due to your response, I have one less item on my Web site that needs to be corrected and/or redesigned.

Again, I am grateful for your assistance.

Sincerely,

Wynne

how did you correct these errors? when i upgraded to 3.3.1, i lost About, Archives and any previous page entries via the links on my weblog menu. please see the following and select any link to the right, and it displays a bizarre not found page:

https://weblog.wynnefields.com/

thank you in advance for your assistance.

sincerely,

wynne

thank you doodle. i appreciate your extra time spent on this issue. although i am not sure i like the “work around”, i will live with it until i have more time to spend learning the PHP guts of these templates.

i need to work on getting my blog styled before i start digging into these other details. hopefully, there are plenty of id and class definitions in the code to make that task a bit easier than this one.

again, i appreciate your help.

… Wynne

Although the original issue is resolved, the home page has now placed a link under the single post as follows: ? Older Entries. And this link takes me to a 404 Page Not Found as it is trying to find a /page/2 entry?

What is this link trying to refer to, and if it is supposed to refer to older posts, why is it not referring to the appropriate page names, e.g. /YYYY/MM/page-title, according to the original posts?

Thank you again for your assistance …

Wynne

That was the ticket, doodlebee. Replaced show_posts with showposts and only one post appears on the home page. Thank you muchas.

Wynne

I replaced my PHP segment under the XHTML comment with this call to query_posts, and I am receiving the same result, i.e. multiple posts on the home page??

E.g.

<!-- Limit the home page to display only one (the latest) post -->
	<?php query_posts('show_posts=1'); ?>

	<?php if (have_posts()) : ?>

		<?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>

Did you mean insert this call in addition to the PHP segment I have already applied?

ty … Wynne

I would like to reopen this discussion for the same purposes as originally intended. I have a programming background, so I thought I could grasp the PHP modifications recommended above.

I can see how the entries above did not work, as the continuation terminator “?>” was excluded from each one (except the example where placed directly within the same PHP segment as the “if (have_posts…”). However, I believe I am inserting this code correctly into the proper index.php file, and it is still not limiting the number of posts on the home page??

I am using WordPress 2.6.3. I found The Loop in the file /wp-content/themes/default/index.php. It is broken up into two PHP segments as follows:

<?php if (have_posts()) : ?>

    <?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>

I inserted the following segment directly above the top entry:

<!-- Limit the home page to display only one (the latest) post -->
<?php if(is_page('home') && !is_paged()) { query_posts($query_string.'limit=1'); } ?>

However, this is not limiting the number of blog posts to one as previously stated. Could someone please identify where I may be inserting this code incorrectly?

Thank you in advance for your assistance.

Wynne