Wordpress not working in Website

pkriner · 2019-01-10 23:46:34

I just migrated my site to a new domain. I reinstalled Wordpress and added a template. The template works but none of my posts are coming up. When I am in Wordpress and go to customize, it shows my posts as it should but the actual site goes to "Blog" but is blank from the Masthead down. any thoughts?

www.newdawnphotography.com

Patrick

rod barbee · 2019-01-11 00:11:10

Hi Patrick,

How did you move your blog?

Is this a new domain (new domain name) or a new host (same domain name

Is this a new WordPress installation or did you move what you had.

If this is a new installation, did you also migrate your WordPress database from the old domain?

Here’s a tutorial on how to do it manually: https://www.wpexplorer.com/migrating-wordpress-website/

There are also WordPress plugins that can help with it.

Hopefully your old database is still intact?

pkriner · 2019-01-11 00:22:05

Rod,

I did not migrate the old Wordpress site. Since I never launched any posts I loaded a new installation and started with a new template. I now find that from my galleries tab I can get the blog info but from the blog I can't go home or about. Maybe its a menu problem but I can't seem to find it.

P.

rod barbee · 2019-01-11 00:25:08

I edited my post above with different questions. Take a look at that so we have a better idea of what’s going on

rod barbee · 2019-01-11 00:39:11

For the menu behavior, is the menu set being used by the page template that creates the WP theme the same as for the rest of the site?

If not, then give both templates the same menu set.

Links from the blog end in, for example /contact/
Whereas the URLs for the rest of your site end in, for example /?=contact

You can try going to Backlight Settings and setting the page url format (under Web Settings), to about/

pkriner · 2019-01-11 00:40:32

Ok Rod,

I now think my problem is in the menu bar. if I go to galleries i cant go to home, about or contact. Im not sure what the disconnect is all about.

P.

rod barbee · 2019-01-11 00:41:20

See above

pkriner · 2019-01-11 00:52:34

My settings are already on /about. I see where I can change the menu set on the default page but not the blog template. I only have one menu set installed.

P.

pkriner · 2019-01-11 00:59:09

I see what you are saying about the ? issue but not sure where to go to change it. Galleries and Blog are /name/ and the others are not. Really confusing.

P.

rod barbee · 2019-01-11 00:59:42

In the menu set, what is the Link To setting for Home, contact, about?
It should probably be "page"

pkriner · 2019-01-11 01:02:17

Home, About, Contact, Blog are page, galleries is url /galleries.

P.

rod barbee · 2019-01-11 01:10:13

Hmmmm.......

How about the WordPress settings in Backlight. So you haveExport on Save set to yes?

If not, try exporting the theme to WordPress again. Maybe that will update the menu being used in WordPress.

rod barbee · 2019-01-11 01:13:33

What I find strange is that the website url settings are set to /about/ yet the page urls are all /?=about. And if you hover over the menu links, all the links to pages end in the /?=about format

pkriner · 2019-01-11 01:15:52

Double checked the wordpress settings, check. Created a new template and exported into wordpress, check. Problem still there. Crap!

P.

pkriner · 2019-01-11 01:23:48

They are different under the Galleries Tab and the Blog Tab. I have the gallery page set to url and /galleries. On the Home, About, and Contact page they are all ?page=. But when I switch to galleries or blog tab they are /name/. And the ?page=Blog tab goes to a blank page.

P.

pkriner · 2019-01-11 02:05:14

I deleted wordpress to see try to isolate the problem. Clearly it is the gallery tab. Im not sure why its happening. I will try and reinstall the blog and delete the gallery tab and see if that works.

P.

pkriner · 2019-01-11 02:13:14

Reinstalled the Blog page without the galleries, the problem still exists. I think I have to reinstall the backlight files :-(

P.

rod barbee · 2019-01-11 02:16:24

You shouldn't have to reinstall Backlight.

If you want to email Backlight guest updater credentials to me I'll take a look to see if I can find anything obvious

rod

rod barbee · 2019-01-11 02:26:47

as an aside, if you want a drop-down menu for your galleries, it the menu set, choose Album Set as the Link To option. Then pick Galleries and set the descent level.

pkriner · 2019-01-11 02:30:13

I set you up as a guest updater. User name Rod, password = MAGA.

See if you can help

pkriner · 2019-01-11 02:41:10

I know about the menu lists. I deleted it when I changed menu sets to see if that was the problem. I will put them back once we solve the mystery.

rod barbee · 2019-01-11 03:29:04

pkriner wrote:

I set you up as a guest updater. User name Rod, password = MAGA.
See if you can help

I hope my computer doesn't melt when I use that password

rod barbee · 2019-01-11 03:48:17

I noticed that you created a page named "Blog"

You don't need to create a page for your blog. Just by installing WordPress in a folder named "Blog" should do it. Then in your menu set, for the Blog item, link it to the url (not the page) for the blog: /Blog or http://www.newdawnphotogrphy.com/Blog

I don't know if that's causing the confusion or not. But try deleting the Blog page and see if that helps.

rod barbee · 2019-01-11 03:51:43

Also, try clearing template cache. It doesn't appear I can do that as a guest updater.

Moving this thread over to the Backlight 2 Support topic

rod barbee · 2019-01-11 04:02:06

But I still don't understand why the urls in your main site menu use the /?=contact format rather than the /contact/ format you've chosen. And the urls in the blog use the /contact/ format.

could be a .htaccess file issue.

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