Question

I set up a site with WordPress using the automatic setup through a hosting provider. I am in WordPress, and it’s working well in that I can create pages. However, when I go to view the page, it always defaults to the index page. So for example:

If I go to http://www.site.com/about
It goes to http://www.site.com

It does not show the inside pages. I cannot figure out why it is doing this. Any thoughts? I have set up new WordPress sites before and have not run into this problem. Did I miss a step in the set up process?

Any help would be greatly appreciated, thank you.

Answer 1

Without putting my hands on your site it is difficult. Is is possible for you to share a link to your site?

What theme are you using? Are you are using a custom theme? If so check if you have a file in your theme folder that is called page.php and that is not the same as your index file.

Try clicking on the page preview button from inside the page editor. Check the url to be sure it is the one you are expecting.

Have you adjusted the permalinks in your WordPress configuration? Double check that it is valid. Should be something like */%post_id%/%postname%/*

I hope some of that helped. try to give a little more info about you settings.