Not showing older posts and trouble with a widget

Hi there,

The first is that it’s only showing ten of my my recent posts with no way to scroll or click to the other previous posts. I still have access to them in my control panel, but people who go to my site aren’t able to access them.

If you’d like to increase the number of posts that display on your home page, then head to Settings > Reading in your admin area and then change the number next to Blog pages show at most.

Additionally, did you make some changes to your theme’s style.css file? I’m seeing some differences between the code on your site that’s causing the “older posts” navigation to not display.

You could override this with some custom CSS.

To add custom CSS, firstly set up a child theme or activate a custom CSS plugin. If you have Jetpack installed then you can activate the custom CSS module.

Enter the following snippet in either the editor for your CSS plugin or the style.css file of your child theme:

.site-main .paging-navigation {
    clear: both;
    overflow: visible;
}

If you can let me know whether you did/didn’t make changes to your theme’s style.css file, I’ll be happy to further troubleshoot the reason behind that navigation being hidden.

The second problem is in my widgets. When I first started my blog within wordpress it allowed my to add widgets like MailChimp Subscriber Popup and Instagram.

There’s a few plugins that will enable you to add a MailChimp Subscriber Popup and Instagram widget to your site. I encourage you to have browse through the Plugins repository.

MailChimp also offer the following advice on adding a form to a self-hosted WordPress site:

https://kb.mailchimp.com/lists/signup-forms/ways-to-add-a-signup-form-in-wordpress#If-You-Have-a-www.remarpro.com-Site

Hope that information is helpful!

Hi Siobhan,

Thanks so much for your help.

I did not change the style.css file. I’m not even sure how to do that haha

I went ahead and followed your directions for changing the number of blog posts that can be shown and that worked. It changed the sizing of the blog post images, but I can live with that.

I’m going to take a look at the MailChimp information you supplied and see if I can find what I need-thank you!

Hi @readingtransforms,

Hm, I’m unsure why the navigation isn’t displaying correctly if you hadn’t made any changes the CSS. Can you let me know what other plugins you’re running on your site? Also, was the navigation ever displaying or has it been hidden since you first got set up with your new host?

If you have Jetpack active then you can enable custom CSS and copy/paste the code I provide to Appearance > Edit CSS. The navigation will then display for you.