Posts for Certain Category Don't Appear on Blog (but other categories do)

[livewellplayhard]

Hi,

I'm using the original Lifestyle Child Theme. The Blog page is not displaying two posts of a certain category (Calling & Livelihood) no matter what I try:

- Blog page is set to use Blog template
- Calling & Livelihood category is a new one, replacing original category called Livelihood. You'll see "Livelihood" still exists on the Blog page in the third section but is empty. This needs to just go away!
- The Featured Post is displayed at the top as it should, even though it is also categorized as Calling & Livelihood.
- The Your Calling & Livelihood page displays both posts correctly.
- I have not added or updated any plugins recently.
- Theme Settings/Blog Page Template:
- set to display 10 posts (there are 5 published total)
- set to display all categories
- testing various settings here (setting to display Calling & Livelihood, setting to display Environment) neither tests worked. For instance, setting Environment posts only still showed all posts except Calling & Livelihood.
- I have been deleting my caches periodically.

Note: yesterday, I lost my Theme Color selection and it went back to the default Lifestyle Aqua color. I spent all day yesterday putting *that* back together (with help from Summer, TYSM!). I wonder if this is related?

Appreciate your help 🙂

Jennifer

http://www.holistichowto.com/blog

[AnitaC]

I believe the "Livelihood" tag is being confused with the previous "Livelihood" category. But go to Settings > Permalinks. Change it to the Default setting and Save it. Then go back and change the permalinks back to what they were set at originally. Let me know if that works.

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[livewellplayhard]

Hi anitac. I do think you're right that there is some confusion.

I tried what you suggested: set the Permalink setting back to the default. My pages then went into redirect loops and wouldn't load at all. I set it back to /%category%/%postname%/ - and the pages loaded again, however, I still have the same issues:

- the orphan Livelihood category remains on the Blog page with no posts underneath.
- the two "your-calling-and-livelihood" posts appear under the page of the same category name, but will not display on the Blog page.

I also deleted all tags, categories containing "livelihood" and the lone Livelihood heading remained.

What I did notice is in Firebug is this. On the Blog page:

Relationships Category (which does work and display its posts on Blog page) contains this code:
<h4 class="widget-title widgettitle">Relationships</h4>
<div class="post-463 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-social entry">

Mind, Body & Spirit Category (which also works and displays its posts on Blog page) contains this code:
<h4 class="widget-title widgettitle">Mind, Body & Spirit</h4>
<div class="post-164 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-mind-body-spirit entry">

Livelihood on the Blog page only contains this:
<h4 class="widget-title widgettitle">Livelihood</h4> it is not followed by the same <div>

???

[AnitaC]

Go to those categories and make sure you have the proper slugs.

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[livewellplayhard]

Hi - I'm not sure I understand. Each category has its slug - what am I comparing this to?

[AnitaC]

This is indicative of a "widget":

<h4 class=”widget-title widgettitle”>Livelihood</h4>

Look in your widgets. You have a widget in there named Livelihood. Remove it.

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[livewellplayhard]

THANK YOU!!

That was it. I vaguely recall doing this back in 2012 when I originally set this site up, then left it for two years.

Big sigh! 🙂 I really appreciate your help.

[AnitaC]

You're welcome, glad to help.

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