• I’ve read through the many posts on this subject, but have not yet found the silver bullet. My blog is https://www.catalog-on-demand.com/blog/

    The feed is supposed to be https://www.catalog-on-demand.com/?feed=rss2, correct? But the validator at W3C indicates “It looks like this is a web page, not a feed. I looked for a feed associated with this page, but couldn’t find one. Please enter the address of your feed to validate.“.

    The subdirectory containing this blog was recently moved, so perhaps that is the problem. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

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  • Thread Starter lkview

    (@lkview)

    Esmi,
    I get it. Thanks, that worked great. Now how do I get the RSS icon in the upper right to use that URL?

    Thread Starter lkview

    (@lkview)

    Esmi,
    I can see that I am having exactly the same problem with clicking on a category. For example, the URL it gives for the Concepts category is:
    https://www.catalog-on-demand.com/?cat=15

    But it should be:
    https://www.catalog-on-demand.com/blogs/?cat=15

    Maybe one setting in one place will fix both of these issues? Thanks!

    tigtog

    (@tigtoggmailcom)

    Did you update your permalinks after moving your blog to the new subdirectory?

    If not, you should do so now.

    Thread Starter lkview

    (@lkview)

    Well, that accomplished something – but things are unfortunately worse now. The permalink was default, now I set it to: /blog/%post_id%

    But as you can see, now our blog does not show any posts!

    tigtog

    (@tigtoggmailcom)

    Hm, changing the permalink structure probably wasn’t the best idea. Just updating them (i.e. just hitting Save on the Permalinks page) was what I suggested.

    Can you change it back to default structure again and hit Save again, see what happens?

    Thread Starter lkview

    (@lkview)

    I did try that.. and should have said so. It did not fix the problem, sorry! (and hopefully I will get to the point where the url contains the name, but realize we have to take one step at a time).

    tigtog

    (@tigtoggmailcom)

    I just hit your logo to go to your home page, and then went from there back to your blog – it seems to have everything where it should be now?

    https://www.catalog-on-demand.com/blog/

    tigtog

    (@tigtoggmailcom)

    Hm – the front page looks ok, but all the post titles don’t have that /blog/ appended, so they lead to a 404.

    In your Settings > General page, do you have both WordPress address (URL) and Site address (URL) pointing to https://www.catalog-on-demand.com/blog/?

    (If they’re not the same, don’t change anything right away until you tell us here)

    Thread Starter lkview

    (@lkview)

    No I don’t.
    WordPress address (URL) https://www.catalog-on-demand.com/blog
    Site address (URL) https://www.catalog-on-demand.com/

    Am not changing yet per your instructions.

    tigtog

    (@tigtoggmailcom)

    OK, that’s why you’re having problems. They need to be the same, because you’re running the main domain area off another CMS and keeping the blog separate. Changing the

    When you moved your WP install to the blog subdirectory, did you copy over the .htaccess and index.php files to the same subdirectory?

    Thread Starter lkview

    (@lkview)

    Yes, that fixed everything. Not sure of the answer to the .htaccess and index.php, because I’m not the developer who did that. But I recall a reference to that topic and I am 99% sure the answer is yes.

    The reason they were different is because I wanted the logo to point to our home page, the same way it does on the other pages of our site. It did not occur to me that that change was the source of the problems. Thanks much for your help.

    Next I’m going to change the permalink structure to /%post_id% and see what happens!

    tigtog

    (@tigtoggmailcom)

    If you want the header-logo to point to your main site, you’ll need to edit the header.php file to make that happen.

    tigtog

    (@tigtoggmailcom)

    P.S. the .htaccess and index.php must have been shifted over, because otherwise the site wouldn’t be working at all!

    Thread Starter lkview

    (@lkview)

    Got it, thanks. I will edit the header.php later.
    I did change the permalink to what I said, but you can see the results. I got a message saying “You should update your .htaccess now.”, but I don’t know how to do that. I think I will leave it as is for now.

    I will be away for a few hours. If you have a tip on how to fix, that would be great. Perhaps my developer will know how to resolve this as well – though he is not a WP expert.

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