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Hi, I have been uploading new pages no problems under different categories. There is now an error occuring when I do this. The new page will show up under the category I wanted it to be in, BUT it is also overriding the home page with its text and images.

When I Close the status of the new page all is back to normal with the Home Page.

Can anyone help here? Thanks in advance! I can’t upload anything until I get this sorted out.

Cheers margie

Is the “unwanted” category the parent category of the one you are assigning to the entry?

HI, thanks so much for your reply. I’m not sure what you mean by ‘parent’ category? In my list of categories I can’t tell if the ‘Home Page’ is the parent, as this category and the 5 sub-level categories all sit together in Exp Engine.

This is my url: http://www.flickchicks.com.au and whenever i now try and add a new page to one of the five categories(for example ‘What We Do’) it overrides the homepage completely.

I hope this makes sense??

HI, thanks so much for your reply. I’m not sure what you mean by ‘parent’ category? In my list of categories I can’t tell if the ‘Home Page’ is the parent, as this category and the 5 sub-level categories all sit together in Exp Engine.

This is my url: http://www.flickchicks.com.au and whenever i now try and add a new page to one of the five categories(for example ‘What We Do’) it overrides the homepage completely.

I hope this makes sense??

I don’t know your setup.
One thing I could imagine is that you have categories arranged like this.

Homepage
   +-- The chicks
   +-- What we do
   +-- Embryos
   +-- ...

So Homepage would be the parent category.

There is a setting under
CP Home ›  Admin ›  Weblog Administration ›  Global Weblog Preferences
labeled “Auto-Assign Category Parents”.

If this is set to “Yes” the following happens:
When you post an entry and select the category “What we do”, the category “Homepage” is automatically assigned to it, too. So the entry has two categories and might show up where you don’t expect it.

Just a wild guess ...

Hi again. The categories section is set up like this:

Categories:

The Chicks
What We Do
Embryos
Feathers in our cap
Contact us
Front Page

I tried what you just described and it is still doing the same thing unfortunately.

It’s a strange thing…when I upload some old archived pages I have closed off, they don’t disrupt the hompage.  It just seems to be this batch of new ones. There must be some setting in there..perhaps that I changed, but was unaware of doing this???!!

Thanks for trying to help, I really appreciate it.

Well, could you post {exp:weblog:entries} bit from your frontpage-template?

Sorry, I’m not sure what you mean. How do I find [exp:weblog:entries)? And how do I send it? I’d do a screen grab and attach the pic, but I don’t know how to attach it. Frustrating!!

Thanks for perservering with me on this 😊

You said new posts override the home page.
There must be a template in which is defined what is shown on your homepage. Part of the code in that template is something that starts with

{exp:weblog:entries

I’m choosing TEMPLATES to try and find this. Not sure if this is where I should be looking??
When Templates comes up there is a list under ‘Choose Group’ which looks like this:-

*main
search
thechicks
whatwedo
embryos
feathers
contact
images

but there is no home page.  Should I be looking somewhere else for {exp:weblog:enries}??

When I am working on a new page in PUBLISH, the categories section lists the home page there as ‘Front Page’ (as I described in a previous entry above)

Maybe my system has been set up a little differently??

Thanks again for your help!

Probably the template in question is the template named “index” in the group “*main”.

As a sidenote: Isn’t your webdesigner who made the templates at hand?

Yes, my web designer is overseas!

I’ve found the right Template and section now (THANKS) and have copied what shows up below.

{embed="main/article-header"}
<td background=”/images/index_12.png” width=“715”></td>
<td>
{embed="images/index_13"}</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
{embed="images/index_14"}</td>
<td background=”/images/index_15.png” width=“715” class=“contentcell”>
{exp:weblog:entries weblog="flickchicks" limit="1" show="8"}
<div class=“flash”>
{if flick_menu == "Image"}{flick_graphic}{/if}
{if flick_menu == "Flash"}
<embed src=”{flick_graphic}” width=“415” height=“278”>
</embed>
{/if}
</div>
<div class=“textcontainer”>
<div class=“heading”><div class=“text-padding”>{title}</div></div>
<div class=“text”>
<table cellpadding=“5” cellspacing=“0” class=“tabletext”>
<tr><td>
{flick_text}
</td></tr></table>

</div></div>
{/exp:weblog:entries}
{embed="main/footer"}

I can’t reach my web designer for the next couple of weeks as he is overseas on holiday. Sorry this has turned into a saga. i really appreciate you trying to figure this one out.

There we are.

{exp:weblog:entries weblog="flickchicks" limit="1" show="8"}

There is a little error inside this.
show=“8” is not a supported parameter of the {exp:weblog:entries}-tag. So that will lead to unexpected results as we have learned. Probably any entry with a date newer than the frontpage-page entry will replace it.

Now the question is what was intended with show=“8”.
Can you go to “Edit” in your ControlPanel and see in the list of entries if the entry number of your frontpage-entry is 8?

The front page entry number is # 33. Number 8 is Community Service Announcements which is a page under the ‘What We Do ’ category.