Archive Posts
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How can I archive older posts?
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Hi,
Older posts are automatically archived, so I’m not sure what you mean. The archives widget in the left sidebar, for example, displays links to monthly archives pages. I do find some unusual aspects of the archives pages on your site though, such as the following:
1. The front page is evidently set to display 50 posts. However, the “older posts” tab at the bottom of the page doesn’t load earlier posts.
2. If I manually add the extension ‘page/2/,’ or ‘page/3/’ to the site/front page URL (e.g. https://themusicissuemagazine.com/page/2/), additional posts are displayed. However, unlike the front page which displays a grid of 50 posts, the subsequent pages display only 9 posts each. And, once again, the “older posts” tab doesn’t load earlier posts.
3. Other archives pages, such as annual, monthly, author, and category archives pages each display at most 9 posts each. And again the “older posts” tab doesn’t work.
I’m surprised to find the posts page displaying a different number than the archives pages, because it is my understanding that a single setting ordinarily applies to all of them, the “Blog pages show at most” setting at Reading Settings. See the Reading Settings support page.
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Thank you. And that is where my confusion is. I can’t figure why older posts are not loading into the older post tab on the front page. Is there anyway to show a grid of the 24 most recent posts on the front page and have the older posts load into the older post tab to show maybe 9 at each interval?
Also on the subsequent pages, is there a way for the older posts to load into the older posts tab instead of disappearing from the page entirely? -
Is there anyway to show a grid of the 24 most recent posts on the front page and have the older posts load into the older post tab to show maybe 9 at each interval?
I don’t know, because I don’t know where the number of posts displayed on the static front page setting is, why it’s presently set on 50, or whether it can only be 50 on this theme. Btw, I was unable to identify the theme you are using. Perhaps the theme guide would provide some answers to our questions.
You may add a “modlook” tag to the sidebar of this topic to call for staff attention. I almost flagged it for staff, but I’d rather check out the theme guide first.
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Also on the subsequent pages, is there a way for the older posts to load into the older posts tab instead of disappearing from the page entirely?
Certainly clicking the “older posts” tabs should load older posts, if there are any. That’s their purpose. They aren’t functioning properly on your site, as I noted above, on the posts page, from page 2 on, and on archives pages. So I will add a “modlook” tag to call for staff attention.
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Hi there,
You can control the setting of how many posts show at a time here:
https://themusicissuemagazinedotcom.wordpress.com/wp-admin/options-reading.php
However, you have 50 of the 52 posts on your site set as sticky posts, and that is why they’re all showing on the front page at once. Setting a post to Sticky makes it appear at the top of the front page and overrides any other settings in that regard. If you edit all those posts to un-sticky them, your front page should work as it’s supposed to.
And in case you need it, you can find detailed instructions for your theme here:
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Thanks. I should have thought of sticky posts. The “older posts” links are now working properly on the following:
- posts page — which still evidently has a lot of sticky posts as there are now 33 posts displayed, while a maximum of 9 display on /page/2,3,etc. and on archives pages.
- archives pages — including the annual 2016 archives page, author pages, and category pages.
However, the “older posts” link doesn’t work properly on the July 2016 archives page. I count 18 July posts, so there should be two pages of July 2016 archives. The second 9 are not loaded when I click “older posts.”
Also, look at the disorder of the grid on pages 2,3,etc. of the author page https://themusicissuemagazine.com/author/dougthemusicissuemagazinecom/, if you load them by clicking the “older posts” link. On my screen, after the 9th grid item instead of displaying rows of 3, there are alternating rows of 2 and 1, with spaces left vacant. Yet if you go directly the page https://themusicissuemagazine.com/author/dougthemusicissuemagazinecom/page/2/ it displays the next oldest group of 9 in rows of 3.
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I see what you mean. However, about half the posts on the site – specifically everything from July and August, are still set to sticky. I’m confident that un-stickying them will make everything work as it should.
In a way this is a bug, but as the purpose of sticky posts is to highlight the three or four posts you always want to appear at the top, no matter their publication date, I don’t think any of our themes will handle it well if someone stickies all the posts on a site – there is no point to doing it and it’s a situation our theme developers simply don’t compensate for in their programming.
Still, I’ll try to reproduce this behaviour and make sure it’s reported.
I recommend you un-sticky ALL the posts on your site. The way our software works your most recent posts will always appear first, on the front page and any archive page, so you don’t need to sticky them. The only time to sticky a post is if you have an older post that you want to force to appear first on the page.
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Awesome. I have began unsticky-ing my posts and everything appears to be working as it should. However in the past when I posted without a sticky the article would appear as the last post on the page. But I think that is due to all of the sticky posts already on the page. Thanks for all of the help.
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That was due to the sticky posts, yes. Any new posts will always only appear after the last sticky post. Once you remove all the stickies everything should work as it should :)
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@dougthemusicissuemagazinecom
@kokkiehThe “older posts” link is now working correctly on the posts page, and all archives pages I’ve checked except the one described here, where the error remains:
disorder of the grid on pages 2,3,etc. of the author page https://themusicissuemagazine.com/author/dougthemusicissuemagazinecom/, if you load them by clicking the “older posts” link. On my screen, after the 9th grid item instead of displaying rows of 3, there are alternating rows of 2 and 1, with spaces left vacant.
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Thanks for checking that. I’ve confirmed the same behaviour on the demo page, so I’ll make sure the bug is reported.
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@doc
Hello there!
I just wanted to follow up and let you know, that the issue you reported with grid layout being broken on archive pages has been fixed now.
Thank you for your patience!
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