russmaschmeyer

bump!

For those reading at home, I used the FTP reset of the plugins folder. Used FTP to change it’s name to “plugins.hold” then checked my site’s back end to confirm the disappearance of ALL plugins (which happened) and then reloaded the front end to see if that resolved the issue. It did not.

I’ve now changed my “plugins.hold” folder back to “plugins”

Well, that didn’t do it. Neither the presence nor absence of plugins seems to affect the malfunction. It’s still there going strong.

Come to think of it, there is something screwy going on with the plugins. I’ll try that really quick.

Yeah, I’ve switched it to the default theme. Tried re-uploading the default theme from the newest version of wp. All the templates behave the same way.

Hey Henkholland,

So I went into my PHP database and it’s showing the correct information. I have a screen shot, here’s the link:

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That shows my posts page as ID=4, which it should be, and the home page with ID=3, which is correct as well. So, the back end has it right. The database has it right. The page exists and the template itself works (yourpie.com/?page_id=3) and is viewable. There just seems be some mysterious bug somewhere. It’s being legitimately directed to show the posts page for the homepage SOMEWHERE. But Where? Is there a function somewhere that recognizes the database settings for the homepage that might be missing? Anyone? Beuller? Beuller?!

Yes that is the homepage. So it exists, and you can hard link to it. It just seems the “select a static homepage” feature within the WordPress backend seems to be screwing up now for some reason.

I called the blank “blog” page “News” and have set that to use the default (index.php) template, which I’ve confirmed is coded to be the blog template. That’s the page (News) I’ve chosen for the posts page.

It definitely exists when I go to edit pages. I don’t know what else to say. It’s really weird. It was just working and now it isn’t. The only thing I can think that may have disturbed it is updating my version of WordPress, but I did that months and months ago. Perhaps my client auto updated again recently and that’s what caused it, but apart from that I have no idea what would cause that.

Just thinking of it… there was one weird thing I noticed when my client first called my attention to the issue a couple days ago. All of the theme files had been weirdly pre-pended in with some massive string of ASCII code or something, like 40 lines of ASCII code or nonsensical letter streams wrapped in a PHP tag.

It was really weird. I went through all the files and deleted it, thinking that might be the bizarre issue. But that didn’t change anything. Thoughts?

BUMP!

I’m having the exact same problem. My site is located at https://yourpie.com. It was working fine not long about, but suddenly the home page disappears and it only shows the default blog page. You mentioned the database options table. Can you elaborate a bit more? I’m not sure I understand what to do to fix this.

Thanks!

R