[Resolved] Updated PHP – Homepage Change

[Ella]

Hello,

I updated the PHP on my site: http://www.forgettingfairytales.com and in doing so, my homepage changed – it now just shows a feed of posts. I had ShowPosts breaking down my different blog categories before and these still seem to be here, but I can’t see how to add them in again, as when I’m on the homepage, I can’t see an “edit”, only a customise, and when I go to pages, I can’t see a published homepage page to edit there. What am I doing wrong please?

Thanks,
Ella

[David]

Hi there,

in Dashboard > Settings > Reading, what is the Home page set to Display ?

[Ella]

It’s set to display “Your Latest Posts”, but when I click to select it to display a page instead, there’s no homepage option. It’s like that old page has completely disappeared! I’ve also noticed my blog page has disappeared too and when I search http://forgettingfairytales.com/blog/ it comes up with a broken link, when I’m pretty sure – beforehand – that was the URL to show all blog posts! (Very confusing!)

Let me know what to do next! Thanks so much!

All the best,
Ella

[Ella]

Update: it has definitely deleted my blog category. See here: https://ibb.co/PY6M1Md How do I restore it? And likewise, it’s probably done the same thing with the homepage for some reason…

[Ella]

Likewise – I’ve also now noticed it’s completely deleted my Contact page also. Can I get this back somehow too, or I have to recreate that one? Let me know!

[David]

Can you speak to your hosting provider ? As upgrading a PHP version should not delete pages or make change to the sites setup. Something else must have interfered. I would suggest they install the latest backup before the upgrade was made.

[Ella]

Spoke to my host. We can’t find a resolution, so I’ll have to re-create the pages. I can’t restore a backup as I’ve added new posts and pages since then.

Can you just tell me how to do the homepage please? As I can’t just press “edit” on that one.

Thanks,
Ella

[David]

You will need to create a new Page to recreate that.
Once built, go to Settings > Reading and set the Homepage to a Static Page. And then select that new page.

Ask your host if they can restore a backup to a dev server, then you could copy and paste the old home page to your current site.

[Ella]

Okay, managed to do that, thank you. And how do I create the blog page so that it’s just a page with all of the posts listed, with the latest ones at the top?

Thanks,
Ella

[David]

Create a new static page, and title it Blog or whatever you require.
Then in Settings > Reading select that Page as your blog.

[Ella]

I’m a little confused as how to set it so that the blog page simply shows all the blog posts though? Sorry. Could you please clarify / break it down a little further?

Thanks,
Ella

[Ying]

1. Go to pages, and create a new page with NO content, the page title can be blog/articles or whatever you want, hit the publish button.

2. Go to dashboard > settings > reading, and select that blog page as the posts page.

[Ella]

Perfect, thank you!

[Ying]

No Problem, glad to help 🙂

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