Posts no longer correctly ordered

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    wasserundeis · Member ·

    For some days I have been observing that the posts on my homepage are no longer ‚correct‘.
    Above stand the pinned posts. Then the posts in the series should follow their release – but they do not (anymore). Behind the pinned contributions follows the contribution from 8.8.2017, then from 7.8.2017 and so on. All posts published afterwards will not be displayed.
    So I assume that the date is wrongly accepted by WordPress itself? We are in 2017 instead of 2018 for some reason.

    The link to my blog is https://wasserundeis.wordpress.com.

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  • kokkieh · Staff ·

    Hi there,

    This is most likely because of the number of pinned posts.

    Your site is set to load 10 posts at a time on the front page. However, you have 15 posts set to sticky, forcing all 15 to load the moment you load your site. In addition you have infinite scroll active, which actually ignores that setting an by default causes seven posts to load at a time, no matter the number of posts you specify.

    In other words, you’re forcing more posts to load on the front page than the front page thinks it’s supposed to load, and that causes the software to become confused the moment it tries to load the second page of posts.

    You have two options to prevent this:

    1) Use fewer sticky posts. This is what I’d recommend: the Sticky Post option is intended to only highlight a small number of posts at the top of your site’s front page. By pinning so many posts you’re ultimately just preventing people from seeing your most recent content – they’ll open your site, see it still showing the same posts it showed last time they visited, and they’ll leave assuming you haven’t written anything new.

    You also appear to have pinned the ten most recent posts on the site, which is completely unnecessary – as they are the most recent posts they already appear at the top, without being pinned.

    2) Go to My Site ->Settings ->Writing. Under Content types, increase the number of posts to display at least 15 per page, AND under Theme Enhancements disable the infinite scroll feature. Then more posts will only load if you click a button to make them load, but it should not skip any posts, provided the number of posts you display is higher than the number of posts you have pinned.

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    wasserundeis · Member ·

    Thank you! It works!

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