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I'm having some trouble with the static pages plugin, I'm hoping someone else has seen this and has a solution.

I created a few static pages that link from my frontpage. As far as I can tell, the plugin is configured correctly. When I actually go to the static page from the link, though, the pages that I've created don't show up. It just shows what appears to be a blank article.

Any ideas?

We need more information:

- Which s9y version are you using
- Which version of the staticpage plugin are you using
- Are you using URL rewriting (see s9y config)
- What's your URL where we might see the phenomenon?
- Can you make a screenshot of the staticpage configuration of that page that doesn't show up correctly?
- Which other event plugins are you using

Best regards,
Garvin

I'm using:

s9y 0.9.1
static pages 3.19
Not using URL rewriting (seems to completely break the site)
The URL:

http://www.whiteboard.net
Click on "Robbie" under "About" to see what's going on.

Screenshot of config:

http://www.whiteboard.net/images/static-1.jpg
http://www.whiteboard.net/images/static-2.jpg

Also using:

Shoutbox 1.01
Recent Entries 1.3
Categories 2.0
Blog Admin 1.0
Recent Google Search
HTML Nugget 1.0


Markup: Serendipity 1.1
Markup: NL2BR 1.2
Markup: Track exit 1.4
Export as PDF
Stats 1.23
Spam Protector 1.26
Browser Compat 1.0
Spartacus 2.5
Static Pages 3.19

Thanks for any help you can provide.

Thanks a lot for this info!

Actually (and accidently) I just saw that the "Aboutpage" type template doesn't seem to be using the Page content at all. I don't know why that is, I'll contact the current maintainer of the plugin.

You might want to use a different "pagetype" instead, where the default "plugin_staticpage.tpl" file is used to render the content.

I'll check back here when I figure out the true intention of a "about page".

Regards,
Garvin

Setting the page to "article" rather than "aboutpage" seemed to do the trick.

An aboutpage gives an short introduction of his childpages. When you don't create childpages the aboutpage will be empty. Ergo: aboutpages must have childpages to see something.

So an "aboutpage" in the static pages plugin is actually a branch overview page, not a page about the author/website/whatever. It's about its children. If it doesn't have any children, it won't have anything to be about.

Overview! Yes. I rename this. I think it is better. Thank you.