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@dan @thominator @upssjw

OK Here’s a big update on what has been going wrong with my blog and how to fix it.

  1. My website (because it’s been up for ever) was using php 7.2
  2. php 8 needed to be enabled for my website by the web host. At that point the main blog page started to work but linked files were still not found.
  3. That turns out to be a path error problem that needs correction on my end. According to the tech I was speaking with, the path “was looking one folder to far” for the files. He edited the files on his end by removing one ../ and everything started working.

The original heading that does not work is below and looks like this:

require_once _DIR_ . ‘/../../../rw/elements/com.realmac.corepack/api/vendor/autoload.php’;

}

// Ensure the CMS helper functions are available
if (!function_exists(‘cms’)) {
require_once DIR . ‘/../../../rw/elements/com.realmac.corepack/api/cms.php’;
}

// Include centralized Twig setup
require_once DIR . ‘/../../../rw/elements/com.realmac.corepack/api/twig-setup.php’;

// Immediately Invoked Function Expression (IIFE) to encapsulate logic and avoid polluting global$
(function () {
// CMS Item Setup - Comprehensive logic for fetching item
$ECMS_Item_sourcePath = ‘../../../blog/cms/posts’ !== ‘’ ? ‘../../../blog/cms/posts’ : '../..$
$ECMS_Item_slug = null;

The edited version for the blog “post” file that does work looks like this:

require_once _DIR_ . ‘/../../rw/elements/com.realmac.corepack/api/vendor/autoload.php’;

}

// Ensure the CMS helper functions are available
if (!function_exists(‘cms’)) {
require_once DIR . ‘/../../rw/elements/com.realmac.corepack/api/cms.php’;
}

// Include centralized Twig setup
require_once DIR . ‘/../../rw/elements/com.realmac.corepack/api/twig-setup.php’;

// Immediately Invoked Function Expression (IIFE) to encapsulate logic and avoid polluting global$
(function () {
// CMS Item Setup - Comprehensive logic for fetching item
$ECMS_Item_sourcePath = ‘../../blog/cms/posts’ !== ‘’ ? ‘../../blog/cms/posts’ :
‘../../rw/elements/com.realmac.corepack/api/examples/content/blog’;

  1. My question to you is how do I set these paths up in Elements so it will continue to work after I upload new content?
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Another blog question just came up.

As I was populating past posts I noticed that my Archive page is only showing 20 posts even though there are more than twenty in my cms posts folder at this point.

How do I fix this?

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OK I answered my own question.

You have to drop the cms collection pagination component into the after section which adds another page.

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Well, unfortunately, here I am again. My blog was working fine for a few weeks then, after updating some other pages recently, it stopped working out of the blue. I’ve spent another few days trying to get it back but no luck. This is hugely frustrating!

Right now the Archive page that’s online still works but the main blog page, no matter what I try to do or reset, does not.

Locally neither the Blog or the Archive page works in browser preview.

I downloaded Thom’s ebook to check everything again and can’t find where the problem might be.

I’ll add that the blog page comes up with all menu’s fully dropped down along with a Fatal Error twig syntax message.

Fatal error: Uncaught Twig\Error\SyntaxError: Unexpected character “&” in “__string_template__53e278cd9b016378087f78c32c8e6b44” at line 5.

And if I take all of the CMS components out of the page the header and footer links work correctly.

Suggestions?

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I suggest you post the project here and let the blogsperts help. If you do not want to make it public, upload to cloud and send link to support.