But now I have the following problem for the “blog” page:

I can view the page correctly in “Edit Page” mode.

But if I press “Preview Changes” it takes me to an older version of my Home page (not the current version of the “blog” page).

And if I press “View Page” it takes me to a different incorrect page, a ghost version of my “blog” page that was deleted (and trash emptied!).

If I simply click “Visit Site” and then click on the top menu link to “Blog” then it takes me to the ghost version as above.

If I designate the “contacts” page as the static posts page, then I can view the “blog” page normally, but the problem occurs to the “contacts” page instead (showing either a ghost version of the blog page, or an outdated version of the home page).

I have refreshed the permalinks as described in other support posts. I have logged out of WP and logged in again. I have cleared my browser cache. None of these things helped.

I deactivated the WP Maintenance Mode plugin and then deleted it, and then logged out of WP and back in again, but it has not helped.

Since this was a design test site, I don’t have any other plugins installed or running yet except WordPress Importer and Limit Login Attempts.

When I search for help in the forums I see people mentioning maintenance mode plugins sometimes in conjunction with this problem. I haven’t seen any threads about this issue that were definitely resolved with a solution that would be applicable to everyone. The WP MM plugin looks abandoned to me — hasn’t been updated in a year, and no support queries answered on their page.

I’ve seen some things in support forum threads that seem to suggest that a maintenance mode plugin could have created some lasting change that would not be reversed by simply deleting the plugin?

My site is at gaelic.co.

Thank you very much.

Thank you

What could be the problem ?

So far I just have

index.php
page.php

I have not created any category or single templates.

You can see the page here:

My wordpress loop on index.php looks like:

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

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

			<div <?php post_class() ?> id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>"><div class="padding"><!--post-->
            	<div class="date"><?php the_time('F jS, Y') ?> <!-- by <?php the_author() ?> --></div>
				<div class="title"><h2><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title_attribute(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h2></div><br class="clear" />

				<div class="entry">
					<?php the_content('Read the rest of this entry &raquo;'); ?>
				</div>

				<div class="postmetadata"><?php the_tags('Tags: ', ', ', '<br />'); ?> Posted in <?php the_category(', ') ?> | <?php edit_post_link('Edit', '', ' | '); ?>  <?php comments_popup_link('No Comments »', '1 Comment »', '% Comments »'); ?></div>
			</div></div><!--post-->

		<?php endwhile; ?>

		<div class="navigation">
			<div class="alignleft"><?php next_posts_link('&laquo; Older Entries') ?></div>
			<div class="alignright"><?php previous_posts_link('Newer Entries &raquo;') ?></div>
		</div>

	<?php else : ?>

		<h2 class="center">Not Found</h2>
		<p class="center">Sorry, but you are looking for something that isn't here.</p>
		<?php get_search_form(); ?>

	<?php endif; ?>

My loop on page.php looks like:

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

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

			<div <?php post_class() ?> id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>"><div class="padding"><!--post-->
				<div class="title"><h2><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title_attribute(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h2></div><br class="clear" />

				<div class="entry">
					<?php the_content('Read the rest of this entry &raquo;'); ?>
				</div>

			</div></div><!--post-->

		<?php endwhile; ?>

		<div class="navigation">
			<div class="alignleft"><?php next_posts_link('&laquo; Older Entries') ?></div>
			<div class="alignright"><?php previous_posts_link('Newer Entries &raquo;') ?></div>
		</div>

	<?php else : ?>

		<h2 class="center">Not Found</h2>
		<p class="center">Sorry, but you are looking for something that isn't here.</p>
		<?php get_search_form(); ?>

	<?php endif; ?>

I am usually able to find what I’m looking for in the docs and on the forums, but I can’t seem to figure out what is causing this? I would expect that it should just show the posts, and maybe the title and description written on the news page if anything. Is there something I should be adding to my templates? Should I create a new template for news (news.php)? Note that I tried doing that as well but it didn’t seem to have any affect.

Does anyone know how to do this?

Thanks in advance

Rob