My Wordpress blog had messed itself up! Advice?

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  1. #1
    Hey guys! For some reason my blog has decided to turn all my posts in to pages and display them on the homepage?! I have no idea why it has done this, I havent updated it or touched the settings for weeks!

    You will see what I mean here:

    http://www.jt-culture.com

    Any idea why it could of done this? When I go to manage the pages, there are none. They are all now posts?!

    Thanks :)
     
    Quail, Mar 31, 2008 IP
  2. pipes

    pipes Prominent Member

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    Could it be that you have no limit set on the number of posts to be displayed on the homepage?
     
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  3. Quail

    Quail Peon

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    No its not that. The website was fine until yesterday!

    (And my limit is 15 posts). You have to understand, every other post on the homepage used to be a page, and was only available when you clicked on the post. Thats why it looks like there are duplicates
     
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  4. hmansfield

    hmansfield Guest

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    It may be an option in that particular theme. Check you setting where you can choose your post page, and see if there is something there.
    The blog will not do anything on it's own.
    On your dashboard under manage. Check both posts, and pages and see whats in there to see if they are truly duplicated.
     
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  5. arwen54

    arwen54 Active Member

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    I just checked your site, and it looks like the posts are all there...

    but if I may make a suggestion or 2:

    in your options: limit your posts to no more than 5 on the front page, especially since you have so many images in each of your posts. It makes the page seem very cluttered, and your visitors should not have to scroll so much to see all the content.
     
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  6. Quail

    Quail Peon

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    I appreciate the advice mate, but usually my frontpage isnt cluttered! Its because of the problem that the frontpage is not covered in pictures and text! Normally its just 15 posts with one picture each, but now theres ten times that! I think I may have to start from scratch. It keeps coming up with random errors.
     
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  7. arwen54

    arwen54 Active Member

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    okay, I just took a closer look...and someone has messed with your header file...

    it's missing everything prior to the <head> tag..so the doctype is missing etc..etc...that is very important!
    you need to delete <head>
    and add this:

    <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
    <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">

    <head profile="http://gmpg.org/xfn/11">
    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />

    that's one thing you can fix right now by going to "Presentation", Theme Editor, and then selecting "header.php"
     
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  8. Quail

    Quail Peon

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    Thanks arwen, I'll have a look at it now :)
     
    Quail, Apr 2, 2008 IP