Single page showing unwanted list of posts

  • Hi

    I have been using WordPress for almost 5 years now. Recently started on a new website and I’m having a problem with my own static pages.

    Up until now, when I created a page on any of my projects, I would get a blank white page with nothing on it. Now suddenly WordPress seems to think that it’s a ‘blog page’, and shows me a number of posts on every single page I make. When I change the ‘Reading’ settings to show a different amount of posts, it changes the number of posts listed. Furthermore, the button in the dashboard called ‘edit page’ disappears. I have tried changing my permalinks to the ‘Plain’ structure, which fixes the issue (the page become completely white). This however gives me a nasty URL (mywebsite.com/?p5). I’m thinking it might be a problem with my permalinks. I do have a URL preference, being https://www.mywebsite.com/title_of_page_or_post/.

    I have never experienced this issue before and really cannot find any documentation or other people who have this issue on the internet.

    I have to add that it is also the first time I am developing a WordPress website on a local host. I am using Vagrant & virtual box and the box I found on https://vccw.cc/

    Please help! Thanks a lot

    Lucas

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  • Thread Starter lucaspoignonnec

    (@lucaspoignonnec)

    Ok so I decided to deactivate all my plugins, reset themes everything. Not sure why but suddenly, my pages were blank as asual, not showing any blog posts. However, when I tried to add a page called blogs, and make it my ‘posts page’ in the ‘Reading’ settings, all my pages returned to the way they were before: Every page showing a list of all my posts.

    Starting to think this might be a caching problem or a problem in WordPress core..

    I think you might have a problem with your localhost setup. Have you looked over the pretty permalinks section in the Codex? Apache, for example, requires that mod_rewrite be installed. Other platforms have other requirements.

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