I am helping a colleague set up a protected blog on which she and her students can post blog entries and can comment on them. When she creates a blog entry, it is published on the 'blog' page but not on the 'home' page. On the 'home' page the blog entries show up on the sidebar, but if one clicks on them one is sent back to a blank 'home' page. And if one looks at the entries on the 'blog' page and clicks on the 0 comments link, once again one is sent back to a blank 'home' page.
This blog has no use for a 'home' page, but there appears to be no way to delete it. I'm finding the documentation not very helpful and could either use some direct advice about how to fix this or some link to useful documentation.
Thank you.
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If it's helpful, here is a sample blog-entry URL:
https://protected.personal.psu.edu/cab485/blogs/psychoflang/#477901
Unfortunately, because it's a protected blog, you can't see what I am talking about. However, the URL seems weirdly formed. The blog entry title is "Welcome to Psychology of Language!". Why isn't the URL something like ".../welcome_to_psychology_.html"?
Resetting all of the templates seems to have had the desired effect. What happened in the first place, though, I have no idea.
Hi Bill,
Glad to hear that you've got your issue fixed by resetting all the templates. That is risky if you customize the default templates, but I gather from your feedback above that you didn't use customized templates and thus resetting them didn't involve any customization loss...
As for the reason why the URL is long, it seems that you have the blog based on a long URL, which has also a corresponding long site path.
Making that short depends on you, nor the platform.
Kind Regards,
Mihai Bocsaru
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