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Wordpress Prev/Next Not Working

Posted: Wed May 28, 2008 1:22 am
by volomike
One of my clients asked me to look at his video blog:

http://hiphopvideovixens.com/

The problem is that at the bottom of the page, the Older Entries link isn't working.

Background
I think if I have the story right, the guy purchased the blog from one of these turnkey guys on the web and to his surprise it came with a German theme and some issues. So, I was hired to go into fix these issues. I translated German to English using Google Translate (and then adjusting from there). I adjusted the CSS a little and changed some other broken HTML. But when it came time to look at the Older Entries / Newer Entries links, these just weren't working. If you click it at the bottom of the home page, you'll see what I mean.

Some have suggested that this is an .htaccess problem in other forums, but were vague on how to fix.

For a brief moment, I reverted the blog back to the Kubrick default theme, but then that didn't help either, so I don't think it has anything to do with the theme and suspect the problem is in the .htaccess file.

Any suggestion on how to fix this, and am I right that the fix is in the .htaccess file?

Re: Wordpress Prev/Next Not Working

Posted: Wed May 28, 2008 1:46 am
by Benjamin
First thing I would do is verify that the apache extension mod_rewrite is activated. I'm guessing the site was moved to a different server?

Re: Wordpress Prev/Next Not Working

Posted: Wed May 28, 2008 2:28 am
by matthijs
From a quick look the modrewrite seems to be working as the permalinks function normally.

[edit:] How are the settings in the admin panel set? For showing of posts and permalinks? Maybe it's something there? Have you also checked if the function used for the previous and next is correct? Maybe there's a newer one and the one used now is deprecated?

p.s.: maybe your client can put some more adds on the site. if I scroll down in a post past the first blocks of adds I can still read 2 lines of real content ;)

Re: Wordpress Prev/Next Not Working

Posted: Wed May 28, 2008 12:29 pm
by volomike
matthijs! :) :) :)

Thank goodness you found it. I went into Admin, then Settings, then Permalinks. I set them to the defaults and the WordPress theme that he installed started working properly.

Now to fix the other stuff...(remember, he purchased this thing as turnkey and now it's a matter of fixing stuff that wasn't right in the first place)

Re: Wordpress Prev/Next Not Working

Posted: Wed May 28, 2008 12:31 pm
by volomike
matthijs wrote:p.s.: maybe your client can put some more adds on the site. if I scroll down in a post past the first blocks of adds I can still read 2 lines of real content ;)
He's a new affiliate marketer (AMer). This is what they do to make a living. Without these guys paying me for services, half my income would shrivel up. This is why when I visit a blog and I like the content, I click the ads just to give them some potential PPC or CPM cash.

Re: Wordpress Prev/Next Not Working

Posted: Wed May 28, 2008 1:45 pm
by matthijs
Yeah its interesting how it works. People click a result in a search result, end up on a site, think WTF and apparently click on the first ad they see to get away..

I remember the good old days were people were actually so naive to post real content on the interweb tubes. Makes you wonder though, what if in a few years time when you open up your internet and it's just one big ad, clicking on it will lead to the next one etc. Will people stop using it, will it be abandoned?

Re: Wordpress Prev/Next Not Working

Posted: Fri May 30, 2008 12:17 am
by volomike
matthijs wrote:Makes you wonder though, what if in a few years time when you open up your internet and it's just one big ad, clicking on it will lead to the next one etc. Will people stop using it, will it be abandoned?
Well, we're all borked in a few years, anyway, so that won't happen -- other major problems will happen before then that will make that moot. They say that the rate of new users coming to the Internet is so dramatic that these "bunch of tubes" will soon be clogged unless we do something soon. And they say that the need to move to IPv6 is imminent but yet it will break many things until they move from IPv4 to IPv6 -- it will be like another Y2K headache (cash for us, I guess). Then, the issue of Net Neutrality is one which we are losing (as advocates of digital freedom). I also fear the web to become more litigious in the future with more patent lawsuits, and dangerous with extortion threats, and so on. All we can do is make as much money as possible before the big END comes. But they say most of us will die in an asteroid collision in December 2012 when the Mayan Prophecy comes true, sending an EMF wave to destroy all computers across Earth as well, so who knows? (Those Mayan dudes were some pretty accurate guys.) Can you tell I've been reading too many Graham Hancock books? Sorry -- my dad gave them to me and I was bored.