sidewindern7

Solved the issue.

The post offset field was blank – it needed to be 0. This displays the latest posts as intended and everything is fine now.

This is strange behaviour because by default, when you put this widget on a page, the post offset is blank anyway. I only needed to fill it in where an offset was required, and the plugin used to work without any issue when post offset was blank before, so I don’t know what caused this change.

@voidthemes maybe a bug that you want to look into?

Anyway, I hope this helps anyone who experienced the same thing. Marking as closed.

Hi @otto42, my intent wasn’t to change the permalink to WordPress’ automatically generated category page, I just wanted the link to direct to a separate page I set up that has posts from that category in a different layout.

In any case I just solved it – it was a caching plugin that was interfering with the change being visible on the site. Thank you anyway!

My apologies @jdembowski. I’m relatively new on this forum and learning. I’ll remember that; thank you for the heads-up.

Just tried it out – I can confirm that it works. Fantastic support, thank you very much. I’ll leave you a good rating ??

Thanks for your prompt response! I think I found the problem – it’s a conflict with another plugin I’m using called Worth the Read, which adds a reading progress bar on single posts.

My PHP memory limit was already 256M (I made sure to add the line in my wp-config.php also) but that didn’t help. So I deactivated all my plugins and went to the archive page – Simple Yearly Archive was working. Then I activated the plugins one by one until the page stopped working – I can confirm it was because of Worth the Read.

I do want to use Worth the Read – can you help me resolve this? If you need backend access to investigate why I can provide that too.

Thank you!