Older blog posts are not visible

  • Unknown's avatar
    nicetalkservices · Member ·

    I keep seeing the following information wherever I look: ‘By default the front page of your blog displays all published posts (not pages) in reverse chronological order, with the most recently published post on top.’ It says that ‘all’ published posts are visible, with the most recent at the top, but what it doesn’t say is that only the 3 most recent are visible at all, with the rest hidden or completely inaccessible as far as I can tell. The older blog posts are visible to ME when I access them from the dashboard, but to anyone looking at the site, which makes the site pretty useless to me.

    WP.com: Yes
    Correct account: Yes

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    divyaab · Member ·

    Hi There,

    I can also view three posts on your website. Please check the visibility of those posts on your dashboard. Go to your post -> Post settings on right side ->Status & Visibility -> Set as Public(if set to Private).

    https://prnt.sc/1ufys70

    Let us know if this helps :)

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    justjennifer · Member ·

    Hi there, If I go to your yearly archive for 2021, I can see a total of 5 posts. However, it looks like you started out with one theme and then switched to Maywood. https://wordpress.com/theme/maywood It then requires a bit of a change in set up for your blog posts to appear on either the front page of your site or on their own Posts page.

    If you want your blog posts to be the front page of your site, head to the Customizer and change the Homepage setting from Static Page to “your latest posts.” Save your changes

    If you want to keep your site’s Static front page but link to the other posts, make sure you’ve first published a blank page (titled Blog, news, etc.) then in the Customizer set that newly published page as your Posts Page and save your changes. This is explained in more detail on the Maywood showcase page I linked to above under the section “Setting up your Homepage”.

    You can then either add a Custom Menu https://wordpress.com/support/menus/ to your site in the Customizer and link to the Posts Page or add a button to the HomePage template linking to that page if it doesn’t appear at the bottom of the current list of 3 posts. https://wordpress.com/support/wordpress-editor/blocks/buttons-block/ To do that, edit the static page from the Pages dashboard.

    Post back here if you need more help or have more questions.

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    nicetalkservices · Member ·

    Thanks jj, that did the trick. I have no recollection of switching to Maywood and when I follow the link you provided, the page it takes me to offers it as an option. I wonder if my phone pocket edited. Where did you access my yearly archive?

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    justjennifer · Member ·

    Hello again, You’re welcome, but that is indeed odd. When I looked at the Action bar https://wordpress.com/support/admin-bar/#action-bar on your site before I replied above, it indicated that Maywood was the theme in use. Regardless, I’m glad you were able to resolve this.

    Where did you access my yearly archive?

    The WordPress software uses a database that’s created when setting up a new site. There are standard query pages for posts for year, month, day, category, tag as well as author. The various blocks and widgets for these things use those queries. All of those archive pages are dynamic, meaning they don’t exist as a page until someone makes a query by clicking on a link.

    So for 2021 https://themattasheensociety.wordpress.com/2021/

    If you had set up your site to have a static front page and set a different page as the posts page, then that address would be like (as an example)

    https://themattasheensociety.wordpress.com/blog/2021/ which right now will serve a 404 not found page.

    So it’s a good idea when setting up a new site to spend a few minutes thinking about how you want your site structure. Once you have an established structure and then decide to switch to a static front page, if you set up a separate Posts page then that will cause a bunch of 404s.

    Probably more info than you wanted, but I hope that helped explain things. :) If not, post back here.

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    justjennifer · Member ·

    Sorry, I misstated that last bit. There won’t be 404’s on your site if you switch your posts to appear on the Posts/Blog page because that page is also a query. The address of the actual post itself doesn’t change.

    Obviously lack of caffeine at work (not) here which I am about to correct.

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