[Resolved] Article page is not reachable

[Maike]

Hi Tom,
I’m back again with a little problem 🙂

I like to create a welcome page “news” with my current articles.

But now the problem is, that I have only a short text without a picture on the “news” page and a link to a page which is not reachable.

Maybe my procedure is not right. I created a category “news” and a article page with an assignment to the category. Then I added the category “news” in the menu structure.

I only like to have a welcome page with my current articles, but where is the fault?

I hope you understand my amateur computer language 🙂

Many greetings, Maike

[Tom]

Hi Maike,

I’m not entirely sure, but here’s what I think you should be doing:

1. Create the “News” category.
2. Add posts to this “News” category.
3. Now you should be able to see these posts by going to yourwebsite.com/category/news
4. You can add the category to the menu by going to “Appearance > Menus”. On the left, you’ll see a “Categories” module. Select your “News” category, and add it to the menu.

Let me know if this helps or not 🙂

[Maike]

Hi Tom,
many thanks for your quick response!

I noticed my english and my computer language is not sooo good 🙂

The steps you are explaining are exact the same as I try to explain. :))

Unfortunately it doesn’t work on my page like that.
When I’m going to my page mywebsite.com/category/news, I can only see the text, without the picture I added and the headline from my post is a link to a page called: mywebsite.com/beitragsname –> (post or article, I don’t know how it’s called in english)

Maybe it’s a little bit clearer now what I try to explain 🙂 I hope so!

Thanks for your help!

[Tom]

Have you added a featured image to your posts?: http://en.support.wordpress.com/featured-images/

Doing so will display the image with the text excerpt.

Or do you want to show the full post on the category page, and no the excerpt?

[Maike]

Hi Tom,
I’ll try to discribe what I like to have on my page…

I’d like to have a category page with the excerpt, included the image and a link to my post page, where you can read the whole post.

Now I have the excerpt without a image and the headline on my category page is a link to my post page which isn’t reachable. I don’t know why the page isn’t reachable.

not easy 🙂

thanks for your help

[Tom]

Weird, well setting the featured image will make the image display: http://en.support.wordpress.com/featured-images/

As for the link not working, try going to “Settings > Permalinks” and click the save button – no need to change anything. This will re-write your .htaccess file which will hopefully fix that issue.

Let me know 🙂

[Maike]

Hi Tom,
the tip, going to “Settings > Permalinks” and click the save button, was great!!! I have reset the settings to standart and now all pages are displayed correctly 🙂

Do I have a chance to change the permalinks on my pages. I like to create a user-defined structure. Permalinks without numbers only with the menu title.

Thank you sooo much 🙂

[Tom]

Absolutely – choose the “Post name” option and save 🙂

[Maike]

When I chose the postname option, the link to the post page doesn’t work.
It only works with the standart setting.

[Tom]

You may need to contact your host and make sure mod_rewrite is enabled on your server.

[Maike]

Thank you Tom!
I contacted my host, mod rewrite is enabled.

[Tom]

And it fixed the issue?

[Maike]

Unfortunately no.
It was enabled the whole time.

Now I choose the “post_id” option and it works. It is not optimal , but it’s ok.
Thank you for your patience!

[Tom]

That’s odd – permalink issues are 99% of the time a server related issue.

Glad you found a solution that works though 🙂

[Maike]

yes, the solution is found 🙂
Thank you! Your work is great 🙂

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