The URL link set is not followed for “Home” parapgraph on “Blog” page.

  • On the Blog page there is the text “HOME / BLOG” at the top.

    If you Edit the page “Blog”, and add a link URL to the “HOME” block, to your websites URL, it does not link to the website when you press it when on the website, instead it links to “/blog/#” which makes no sense and is not using the URL we defined.

    It’s also a question what you intended the “HOME / BLOG” on the “Blog” page to link to. Since those are not breadcrumbs, it’s not clear what the purpose is for these two paragraphs in that row? The “HOME” currently leads nowhere and for the paragraph “BLOG”, we are already on the “BLOG” page so there is no need to have a link to itself?

    My assumption would be that “HOME” text on page “Blog” should lead the the website landing page, and “BLOG” I am not sure that it should lead to since we are already on the “IN BLOG” page then.

    • This topic was modified 1 year, 6 months ago by TomPettyFan.
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  • Theme Author shufflehound

    (@shufflehound)

    Hi there,

    That’s a good question.

    Currently, those links need to be added manually via the site editor when editing that template. But we may be able to add an update that can automatically select those links until the template page is edited manually.

    Best regards,

    Shufflehound team

    Thread Starter TomPettyFan

    (@sundstedt)

    Thanks, I have edited them manually before. But as I mentioned, it does not use the URL that I put in the Site Editor for the Blog page, for the HOME text/paragraph. I link it to the website URL but instead it links to https://websitename.com/blog/#

    Even though I created the link. I tried multiple times. It defaults to /blog/# instead of the URL i set it to ;/

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    Theme Author shufflehound

    (@shufflehound)

    We just tried to adjust it and it worked fine.

    Can you please try to adjust the text itself and see if that changes?

    Thread Starter TomPettyFan

    (@sundstedt)

    I have tried to set the “Home” and “Blog” words to a URL.
    It allows setting a URL in the editor, and the setting value URL remains. However, the URL is not followed/used when actually viewing the website. As you can see in this image, when inspecting the words Home and Blog, it instead uses what was the theme’s default settings, i.e. “#”. Because it adds the # instead of the set URL, the links do not work. They are not “broken”, they are defined, but they don’t work. I thought that by showing you this Inspect/Debug screenshot, it may be able to help you fix it.

    Image link:
    https://postimg.cc/q6GYvsh9

    For some reference, all other links I have set, like in the footer and in header, the links are followed correctly. So far it’s only these two that are not.

    I use Windows 10 and the latest WordPress version and updated Chrome browser with no active extensions.

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    Thread Starter TomPettyFan

    (@sundstedt)

    I did a further test now, since I suspected it could do with perhaps the “Blog” page was not really editable, but perhaps used some default by code.

    I verified/tested this by renaming Home / Blog to… “Gnome / Bloog”

    Unfortunately, when viewing the site, it still showed “Home / Blog” instead of the new names, and links still did not work but used “#” instead of set URL’s.

    Interestingly, in the “Editor”, it actually keeps the renamed names, but when viewing the website, it shows the old default words “Home / Blog” instead.
    That only happens on this page it seems. I am thinking perhaps it’s the functionality of some programming?

    Browsers tested:
    Chrome
    Edge
    Opera

    I also tested this on another computer, the DELL Windows 11 laptop, and it didn’t use the new names and the URL’s linked to “#” instead of the correct URL’s defined. So it’s definately some type of bug, not my computer. Since the DELL is a fresh Windows 11 install and has the same result as the Windows 10.

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    Thread Starter TomPettyFan

    (@sundstedt)

    Could it be PHP version on server?
    If so, which PHP version have you tested for? I am thinking perhaps this could explain if it’s working for you.

    On your demo site, the links for “Home” an “Blog” on this page are both set to: https://lemmony.shufflehound.com/agency/blog/#

    So perhaps you can test changing it to an actual link instead of the # and make sure it works.

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    Theme Author shufflehound

    (@shufflehound)

    We have one more idea of what could be the issue. The blog page and category pages have two different templates. The blog page has an Index template and the Archive template is meant only for categories and tags.

    Can you please check that you are changing both templates?

    Thread Starter TomPettyFan

    (@sundstedt)

    That was it! Great thanks. I changed the settings for the “Index” template now and that worked. I changed HOME to my website URL and BLOG to my Blog page URL.

    Is the “Index” template setting different from if i visit the “Blog” page via the websites menu and select “Blog” and “Edit Page”? It appears that way.

    Just to be sure, should I change the “Index” page, and the “Archive” page and the “Blog” page, or only one or more of them? Or should any of those have their HOME and BLOG links set to something different?

    Trying to figure out what’s what and what the difference is between a template and an actual page. Like what is the difference between the “Index” template and the “Blog” page?

    Theme Author shufflehound

    (@shufflehound)

    Usually, you need to change just the Index and Archive templates. The blog page you only need to change if you don’t use the Index template and build it from the blog page itself.

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