Long-ago deleted page suddenly loading for blog page

  • A month or so ago, I deleted my then-current blog page and made a new one. Everything worked fine, until earlier today, when I noticed the dropdown selector to pick a blog page (Setting > Reading) was on “–Select–“, rather than the actual page. I set it to the now-current blog page and… the old page loaded when I clicked the blog link. The URL is the current one, but it’s the wrong page. If I reset the selector to “–Select–“, the correct page loads.
    I have reset my CDN cache many times over the last week, since I just set it up. I have disabled all my plugins, multiple times. I have reset Elementor’s CSS many times. None of that has any effect, if I set the blog page.
    Any idea why this might happen and if I need to fix it? Is there any problem with leaving the blog selector as it is, on no page?

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  • Hey.

    The “Posts page” setting tells WordPress when to load the blog template instead of a standard page. Any content added to the page originally will be ignored. This can be confusing if you already created the page, added a bunch of blocks, then set the posts page afterwards.

    It’s important to set this correctly though, so that features like pagination work correctly when you add more posts.

    If you’re using a block theme it’s easy to edit the blog template:

    1. Open the site editor (Appearance → Editor)
    2. Click Pages
    3. Click your blog page (it should be the second item in the list)
    4. Click the preview frame to begin editing

    Good luck!

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