Static Page Problem

  • brighttyger

    (@brighttyger)


    15 years, 2 months ago

    I am working on my static front page at YvesFey.com. There is a posts page on the static front page, and a “Hello World” greeting box on the blog posts page, but no place to leave a message. I did the first two steps in the Codex, but step 3 said to enable the permalinks to show the “page title”. There is no explanation of how to do this. There are four choices, including custom, but nothing to explain what the line of code should look like. Flailing around as a newbie, I ended up on the Weaver Forum because someone else had a similar problem. He was given a complicated programming solution beyond my skill. A Weaver helper gave me a line of code to put in the custom Permalinks box. It is /%postname%/ . If I should put something else in this box, please tell me what it is. This has made no difference in the look of the two pages. In future, since adding a static page is common, WordPress might make it a clickable option. Thanks.

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  • Chip Bennett

    (@chipbennett)

    15 years, 2 months ago

    Do NOT use /%postname%/ as your permalink structure.

    Use one of the pre-defined options, by selecting one of the 4 radio buttons, other than the radio button for the free-form code entry.

    Thread Starter brighttyger

    (@brighttyger)

    15 years, 2 months ago

    Thanks to Chip on the permalink part of my question. I have reset the permalinks box to the original default. It is:
    http://yvesfey.com/?p=123 – If this is correct, and the default is what is meant as “page title”, I’m left with my original problem, that the static page and blog page don’t seem to have the correct content.
    The static front page has my expanded and uploaded header (happy with this), and below it shows a box that says home (I have turned off the comments box), a search box, and archives and meta thingummies. I will want to hide these too, but I want to make sure the pages are operating correctly before I do.
    The posts page, Blog, does not have the post a comment box, which surely it should have? It has the hello world message box and the other search box and archive/meta links. It did not have the post a comment box even before I turned that off on the front page.
    Have I done something wrong? Is it all as it should be, and I’m just supposed to click something to add the comments box back to posts?
    All help is appreciated.
    Gayle

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