multisite stopped showing posts but pages work

I went in via the rss feed which was limited to a handful of posts and the few I tried seemed to be available. https://modernmarket.us/feed/

But there doesn’t seem to be a menu there to the various parts of the site and I don’t see a blog page which is the page I expected to find to help me look at all the posts.

Is it possible that when you changed the setting to cause that front to show a static page you might have clobbered the page that would have presented your blog?

Take a look at Dashboard –> Settings –> Reading and the two setting under the ‘static page’ setting for a name of a static page and the name of the blog page.

I realize you have a lot of posts and pages set into lists in the sidebar and that’s fine to highlight content but I really think a menu or a pair of menus are a good idea, too.

I also recommend you set the number of posts in the ‘Blog pages show at most’ setting to try to present just a little more content longitudinally than the sidebar length. I hate seeing a big blank white space at the bottom of the blog listing.

Not easy if your blog page shows content instead of snippets but a close target ‘number of posts’ is better when you can.

Also on the RSS feed… set that to something like 30 posts. That usually won’t hurt a thing and brings the search engines and some of your visitors into seeing a little more of the productive post content.

RSS is worth trying to get right. Especially if your content might attract a well behaved aggregator or two.

One more issue was something odd where I saw some permalinks pointed to the article and then the category name while others didn’t.

You might want to look into your permalinks settings and then toggle them after you figure out the rest above. Beware that might mess up any hard links you’ve made in those posts and manually link-filled Widgets.

Dashboard –> Settings –> Permalinks.

Look at your custom settings selection and change that if you don’t like it or it’s inconsistent with your goals and idea.

If it works well then don’t touch things.

You might want to install the broken link checker plugin as a double check of things. That thing is a resource hog though so run it for a week or so then kill it or set it to take it’s time traversing your site. I set mine from the standard 72hr default to 480 hours after the first pass or two.

thanks for the tips, I found the issue, it was a plugin. I did a network disable of all plugins and everything worked again and then I just activated a few at a time until it broke again. it was either a download monitor or the Easy Updates Manager plugin that broke the post links. I am now preparing to move to a new hosting company because my current host support is terrible, lucky if you can talk to a human in less than an hour on hold.