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I’m sure Joe will chime in here, but if it was me this is what I would do (not knowing what error you are actually seeing):

go back to the defaults and get it working that way first

  1. check the url you have set in RW for the project
  2. get rid of any pretty url code in your .htaccess file.
  3. preview the blog post page and click the default url button
  4. when the modal pops up (mine is white also) does the URL look correct? Click the send
  5. go to admin and edit a post (just add a space at the end of a line) and save it.

Once you get it working on default url’s, then tackle the pretty url settings.

FYI, if you hover over the newspaper icon in the ADMIN blog list page and click the small link icon, it will show you the permalink url. Is it correct?

EDIT: I can see the issue is that there is no postURL being saved - that happens when you hit send in the modal window of the post page in RW preview. That is the basic issue. What is the error message when you hit send?

EDIT 2: here is where the first one actually is: https://dernalandscapes.me.uk/blog/post.php?permalink=the-rain-curtain-garden This tells me that your Public blog List page and Your public Blog Post page are in the same folder (/blog). I know joe showed this in the video, I’m not sure why. I would make the post page a child page of the list page and change the name back to index.php unless you have some reason not to.

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As I said in my video, you should always try to get the blog working without pretty urls first. I am not sure that you are following the video step by step.

However, there definitely is an issue with saving the blog post URL on your server. I see that you are using a Windows server. While there are a few customers running Total CMS on windows, I am not surprised that there are issues. Apache on Windows has historically been very buggy and glitchy. I have found one minor glitch that I can get fixed in an update later today. However, there are others that would take me some time to debug and figure out.

Does your host give you an option whether you get windows vs linux server? If you can switch to linux, I would strongly recommend it as it will save you a lot of headaches over time.

If that is not an option, please email support@weavers.space with your FTP credentials to the server. I will try my best to get things fixed up for you.

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Many thanks Jo will do this evening I think they only use windows

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How would I make it a child

/blog/blog is this how

many thanks Graham Joe has got it working to a degree, but still doesn’t post without error it doesn’t say what the error is

regarding the link these are what are showing
post Blank
rss feed //dernalandscapes.me.uk/cms-data/blog/blog/blog.rss
site map //dernalandscapes.me.uk/cms-data/blog/blog/blog-sitemap.xml

as a completely separate question can horizon be used in the admin pages of the blog please

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Many Thanks Joe it seems to be fixed, but not sure if it is sending all the useful stuff to improve SEO ratings.
Also the blog post still doesn’t post without an error.I have said a big thank you on my Blog to you. you mentioned that there were quite a few glitches due to windows hosting, that you would endeavour to iron out.

Does horizon work in the admin section of the blog and what size image should be used, it seems to make the images too big so I haven’t tried posting yet

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Oh great! You got everything working!

Not sure how you would use Horizon in the admin area. I would just stick to the Total CMS admin stacks.

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Ok Joe many thanks for your help, another problem has just arisen in that images are being saved but it isn’t saving the text, and the permalink blog post pace still returns error on publishing

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Solved One Problem I had recapcha added at the bottom but not formatted,
So just the permalink publishing returning error

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