Recent Posts are all linked to the First Blog..

are you using widgets in the sidebar or is that hardcoded?

if hardcoded, what is the code?
please paste the full code of the sidebar template into a https://pastebin.com/ and post the link to it here.

We are using widgets. I am not sure if it is hardcoded or not. It must be because i had messed with other widgets from the Admin Panel, but they would not appear on the blog. (Assuming because of the customized theme). Can you tell me the directory where i would find such code? (assuming it is hardcoded.)

‘normally’ you would check for sidebar.php under:

dashboard – appearance – editor – Sidebar (sidebar.php)

however, as your theme is ‘hand-made’ it could be anywhere…

Here is the sidebar.php within the Theme folder

Click Here

change line 121 to:

<td width="90%" align="left" valign="top" class="textmatterright"><a href="<?php echo get_permalink($row1['ID']); ?>" title="<?php printf( esc_attr__( 'Permalink to %s', 'twentyeleven' ), esc_attr($row1['post_title']) ); ?>" rel="bookmark" class="textmatterrightlink"><?php echo $row1['post_title']; ?></a></td>

and the same in line 166

Thanks for the advise Alchymyth.

When i change this code, now you cannot see the Names of the Recent Posts and nothing to click on. Would this change if a new blog is posted? (As in from here on out) Or should it have pulled up the recent posts already?

the code again (tested in local test blog):

<td width="90%" align="left" valign="top" class="textmatterright"><a href="<?php echo get_permalink($row1['ID']); ?>" title="<?php printf( esc_attr__( 'Permalink to %s', 'twentyeleven' ), esc_attr( $row1['post_title'] ) ); ?>" rel="bookmark" class="textmatterrightlink"><?php echo $row1['post_title']; ?></a></td>

please paste the full code of sidebar.php after your edits again and post the link to the pastebin here.

Tried it again, same results. ??

Click Here to view the edited code.

my mistake, i was not very clear in my suggestion:
‘and the same in line 166’ meant to adjust the code in the same way – not to paste the same stuff;

the query for line 166 is different, and therefore line 166 should look like:

<td width="90%" align="left" valign="top" class="textmatterright"><a href="<?php echo get_permalink($row['ID']); ?>" title="<?php printf( esc_attr__( 'Permalink to %s', 'twentyeleven' ), esc_attr( $row['post_title'] ) ); ?>" rel="bookmark" class="textmatterrightlink"><?php echo $row['post_title']; ?></a></td>

Thank you, Thank you, Thank you! You saved us!

It works like it should…. now…. i just need to get the “Tags” to link up correctly. Any idea where i should start with that?

get the “Tags” to link up correctly.

what tags?
can you point to the area where the tags are?

(the post tags below the posts are linking correct as far as I can see)

I apologize. It is listed in the same Sidebar, but under “Categories”. The kicker is, those aren’t Categories. They are the tags we use.

*shakes head in confusion*

So the “Categories” a.k.a Tags, don’t link up to another post.

So the “Categories” a.k.a Tags, don’t link up to another post.

they would link to a archive page – which some of these category links seem to do (check ‘Health News’ for instance).

if you want Tags in that list, you need to re-code the section starting with line 199 –
as I still haven’t totaly understood what you want to show in that list, I am unable to help;
possibly try to contact the original programmer of your template to discuss that.

We prefer them to be an actual Category, since the tags are already on the blogs themselves.

I wish we could locate the programmer. Unfortunately, that is why I am taking this project over.

replace line 200:

$sql="select * from wp_terms";

with:

$sql="select * from wp_term_taxonomy WHERE taxonomy = 'category' AND count > 0";

and replace line 211:

<td width="90%" align="left" valign="top" class="textmatterright"><a href="?cat=<?php echo $result['term_id']; ?>" class="textmatterrightlink"><?php echo $result['name']; ?></a></td>

with:

<td width="90%" align="left" valign="top" class="textmatterright"><a href="<?php echo get_category_link( $result['term_id'] ); ?>" class="textmatterrightlink"><?php echo get_category( $result['term_id'] )->name; ?></a></td>

that should give you a list of category links