Missing Blogs – Not showing

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  petercoomber · Member · Sep 22, 2019 at 12:29 pm

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  When I click on my site Blog link there are no posts showing. This has happened since I set an existing Page into a Post. Although my old posts can be seen by selecting a Category.
  I have added a new post since this but it too is not appearing and I cannot do anything to this former Post page now (i.e. to ‘un-Post’ it or remove it).
  Scratching of the head time…

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  musicdoc1 · Member · Sep 23, 2019 at 12:00 am

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  Hi,

  This has happened since I set an existing Page into a Post.

  Do you mean that you set an existing page as the post page? When you have a static homepage, only one page may be chosen as the the blog page. To set the page titled “Blog” as your blog page, choose it at Customize > Homepage Settings > Posts page, and then save the edit by clicking the “Publish” button.

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  musicdoc1 · Member · Sep 23, 2019 at 12:02 am

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  I meant to say:

  Do you mean since you set an existing page as the posts page?

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  petercoomber · Member · Sep 23, 2019 at 5:47 pm

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  What happened was:
  – I had three pages which were all on one of my drop down menus, which I wanted to merge together into one page.
  – I renamed the first page (to reflect the change) and then copied and pasted the contents of pages two and three into page one.
  – I then binned page two.
  – For page three, because I wanted to use it as a post, I saw the ‘make page a post’ option, so I selected that, but I then saw that it didn’t appear as a post, so I created a fresh post – using the content of page three. I can’t bin the old page three.
  – The Blog drop down doesn’t list any posts now.
  Does that make sense?
  I think my ‘make page a post’ action has fouled up my Blog, so that it is not picking up and listing any of the posts. When a category is selected (for example ‘general rubbish’), the relevant posts do appear though.

  Sorry, I should have said: “thank-you for responding” at the top of this entry.

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  petercoomber · Member · Sep 23, 2019 at 5:52 pm

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  Well, I am silly! I have just read your bit about ‘customise posts page’ and done what you said, and it has worked…

  …which is more than my brain did.

  Thank-you for your kind assistance.

  Pete C.

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  musicdoc1 · Member · Sep 23, 2019 at 7:23 pm

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  You’re welcome, Pete : -)

  ~doc

  P.S. I’m not familiar with the ‘make page a post’ option that you mention. Where did you find that? You may add a “modlook” tag to the sidebar of this topic to call for staff attention. Perhaps staff can provide an explanation as to why that option didn’t work for you.

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  petercoomber · Member · Sep 24, 2019 at 3:22 pm

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  It’s the ‘Set as Post Page’ option under the Posts Toggle Menu options on an existing post – not ‘make page a post’ as I said.

  I didn’t read the instructions before using it (typical bloke thing). 8P