borderlinecollective

Whoa, never mind! I forgot we also had one more plugin, the WordPress importer. Had never caused any issues before –as I posted originally, the WP version was updated 6 months ago, which is also when I last used the importer, but the inability to edit pages just happened recently. Just deactivated that plugin and was able to get into my pages! Thank you!

As for permalink structure, it seems like that only affects the posts, right? Not for pages, as far as I can tell.

The site was originally set up by someone else, and the theme it’s using was modified by that person. That person also has the Aksimet key, and Aksimet is the only plugin we use. I’m afraid to bother him about it as he just re-installed it a few months ago.

As for the theme, can I switch back easily, even though the current theme has been modified? Does it basically stay in my list of themes to choose from so I can go back to it easily?

Anyone? Doesn’t appear to have been a fluke day, I still cannot edit pages even though the posts are fine.

Bump…could really use some advice on this, thank you!

How bizarre! Front page setting had indeed changed to “static page” when there is no static page set up. This happened to me another time, before I did any of the upgrading, when the sidebar widgets disappeared and had to be reset, no idea why. Glad it was something simple, thanks for the advice.

Hi, I posted them above but they weren’t clickable. Here they are:

Main domain (index page is working) https://www.borderlinecollective.org

Subdomain (no index page but other pages working) https://dev.borderlinecollective.org

Thanks!

“Error 404 – Page not found!

The page you trying to reach does not exist, or has been moved. Please use the menus or the search box to find what you are looking for.”

It’s really like it’s the index.php file that is missing, except I don’t see how it can be. I see one in the main dev folder but also within the content/themes/wp-andreas whatever folder. All other pages, posts, and images are appearing.

But I didn’t change a thing on the dev subdomain once I confirmed it was working. So it seemed like maybe it was due to a missing file on the main domain, yet it really doesn’t appear anything is missing there either. I didn’t delete the original content folder. For some reason I had to re-import the site because after installing the new WP on the main domain it wasn’t reading any content…I’m not sure if that is normal or not, but on the “upgrading wordpress – extended” page it doesn’t say anything about that, it sounds like it’s more or less automatic…maybe it just wasn’t because it was such an old version of wordpress.

Nope, spoke too soon. Definitely broken.

Odd…I seem to have figured it out using various Googleable sources. Hopefully it won’t suddenly break on me. For anyone who’s interested, I added some lines to the main index template and uploaded a “blog” template.

Above this line of the main index:

<?php if (have_posts()) : ?><?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>

I added:

<?php $temp_query = $wp_query; ?>
<?php query_posts(‘showposts=1’); ?>

…to indicate only one post will show.

Then created a “blog” template that basically copied the index page but deleted the blurb I had on top. Then above the same line as on the index page, I added:

<?php $temp_query = $wp_query; ?>
<?php query_posts(‘showposts=6’); ?>

I should also note that I do know where the “reading” option is to change the number but that still affects the number on the front page (and the blurb on top of the main page still shows on each blog page), and how to change to a static main page and posts page instead, but in my drop-down to select a posts page all the options are pages and the current main page (if I could modify it to only show the most recent post) is also not an option to choose for front page.

I didn’t create this site, I’m just trying to figure out how to modify it. Thanks for any advice!

Hi, just to clarify….this only creates one type of menu, right? I did see that link in the admin section and didn’t think it was right. I wanted a different subpage menu on each page. I haven’t been able to figure out a way to have widgets change per page yet.

Thanks! I may come back with more questions later.