I’ve been searching high and low for an answer to this and have read about setting “with_front” to false etc. but have so far not turned up anything with a step by step guide.
I’m a beginner when it comes to setting up Wordpress sites and I’ve been following a tutorial about setting up my first Wordpress website. In the tutorial it talks about using the “Reading Settings” area to set “Your homepage displays” using new pages.
I’ve set the “Homepage” to a new page called Home and the “Posts page” to another new page called Film News. When I visit “/film-news” it displays as wanted, but when I visit “/blog” it shows the same page.
Is there a way to either customise the presumably default “/blog” to “/film-news”, or simply remove any reference to “/blog” and just use “/film-news” instead?
Have you already installed WordPress? The installation instructions explain how to install in a sub-directory (which can be called blog or film-news or whatever).
The blog page link of your WordPress site is not correct. Mean, The New-film page link is inserted in the blog page. You have to change the link of your pages to resolve this problem.
Sorry for late replies all - my regular work had to take priority for a day or so.
Yes, Wordpress is already installed and running.
No, “blog” isn’t listed under “All Pages”. However, when I try to load the URL “/blog”, it takes me to my “index” page, but then so does “/film-news”. Under my Reading Settings, I’ve set the Homepage to “Home” and the Posts page to “Film News”.
There is a setting where you can choose a dynamic front page or a static. It’s a very long time since I’ve set up any WP site, so I can’t say where that setting is found.
The dynamic front page is created on the fly to show the latest blog posts.
Do you mean the following settings? During the tutorial it was stated that I need to select the “A static page” option and then set the pages accordingly.
It seems strange also that when I enter any invalid URL (i.e. an unknown page URL) it displays “Page Not Found” in the title bar, but directs me to the same blog posts layout every time, like it’s a default. When I enter any page names that DO exist they correctly redirect to their own page.
In which folder did you install Wordpress?
If you originally installed in /blog you will have an index page which will always load when you access /blog
In any event the index page in /blog will always load when you access /blog no matter what Wordpress settings you change
Thanks for the reply! I had a check of the Permalink Settings and seems there was something odd happening with the URLs which after saving the Permalink Settings has resolved the issue.
