"Older Posts" Pages Just Show Same 10 Posts!
 

Using: Atahualpa 3.6.7; Wordpress 3.2.1
Website: http://sierraclubcalifornia.org/

When I press the "older posts" link at the bottom of the page, it just shows the same (most recent) posts over and over again!
http://sierraclubcalifornia.org/page/1/ .../page/2/ .../page/3/ .../page/4/, etc. all show the same content.

Help! Please!!!

What are your permalinks set to? Try setting your permalinks to the default and see what happens.

Are you using a template?

I have the permalinks set to "Day and name" - /%year%/%monthnum%/%day%/%postname%/
When I set it to default, none of my pages worked except the home page.

My category and tag bases are set to default.

...not that I know of? I'm not sure what you mean by that. I have seen nothing on the dashboard that would imply that, and I know there isn't anything like that added to the code...

when you do this, doest the 'older posts' work?

is this site in a subfolder?
using ftp, go to the wordpress root folder - is there an htaccess file there?
next go to the parent folder of the wordpress older - is there an htaccess there?
repeat this process till you get to the root folder

all of the htaccess files will be processed so they might be effecting each other

No. When I change to "default", though the url changes from .../page/# to .../?paged=# and the page does show up, it has the same issue. It still only shows the first ten entries.

Yes, it is in a subfolder. I have found two .htaccess files, one in the wordpress folder and one in it's parent folder. Should I delete one? Which one? (they do have the same content, though...)

Well, I tried removing each .htaccess file and seeing what happened. Without the one in the parent folder, the page broke; but without the one in the wordpress folder it was still ok, so I deleted that one.

It did not fix the issue, though =(

OK, I've figured out what caused this: I put added inside the loop (index.php) to skip a category of posts I don't want to show up. When I took that out, "older entries" started working again.
Which leads to the question: how do I hide that category? Was that code wrong, or should I have put it somewhere else or something?

Thanks so much for your help, you guys!!!

ok - so I think I may have solved it?
I now added this code above the loop and it seems to be going ok.
Would you mind just telling me whether that was a good move, or will it end up messing something up I don't know about yet, like I ended up doing the first time?