Question

The start page of my weblog only shows one entry. However, there are several published entries in the database. What has happened?

Answer

The start page is styled by a template. It is the so-called Main Index Template. Within this template you will find an MTEntries tag. This tag loops over all published entries and outputs a defined number of all entries to the start page.

If the template only shows...

then all entries that were published during the last X days are printed. The number X is taken from the weblog configuration (see weblog config, preferences, general settings, number of days displayed). If nothing has been published within this period, no entry will be printed.

I prefer, writing the following into the template.

Then the 10 last entries will be printed. It does not matter, how far away they have been published.

If you change the Main Index Template, you have to rebuild the indexes - or simply rebuild the entire site.

mgs

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