Default theme, problem with page templates?

kdharris
(@kdharris)

19 years, 3 months ago

I’m running 1.5-alpha-6 and I was wondering if anyone else uses the default theme? If so, have you successfully been able to add page templates?

I don’t know if it’s just me, but WordPress doesn’t seem to recognize templates in the WordPress root, nor do I understand why considering it acknowledges that the path for the default theme is the root.

My blog is at boison.org. I created a template entitled ‘Page’ for my about and other pages–I don’t want entry meta data or comments to be displayed on these pages.

Any ideas?

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Ryan Boren
(@ryan)

19 years, 3 months ago

Put them in wp-content/.

Thread Starter kdharris
(@kdharris)

19 years, 3 months ago

WordPress did recognize the file after I put it in wp-content, but then I would get a parse error:

Parse error: parse error, unexpected $ in /homepages/27/d90640279/htdocs/wp-content/themes/Pink/about.php on line 17

I’m not sure why this is; I’m looking but I see no ‘$’. LOL And I don’t have this problem with the index file.

xerocool
(@xerocool)

19 years, 3 months ago

http://wordpress.org/support/topic.php?id=19699

Is that the problem you have? If so, I’m infected with the same problem you have.

Read the solution I posted. Only thing I figured out. I believe It’s a bug :).

Thread Starter kdharris
(@kdharris)

19 years, 3 months ago

Your problem doesn’t seem quite the same. I’m not having any issues with index.php, just the page template(s).

Mark (podz)
(@podz)

19 years, 3 months ago

I use ‘/wp-content/page.php’ without problems.
If you are seeing errors about variables being missing, I’d guess you’ve made a slight error when removing code..

Thread Starter kdharris
(@kdharris)

19 years, 3 months ago

Actually, podz, that was a good idea. I went back and took a clean copy of the index file, as well as the source of the file I was basing the template on codewise, and removed things selectively.

Looks like I forgot the <?php endwhile; endif; ?> statement after <?php the_content(); ?>. Adding that seemed to do the trick; everything works fine now.

Silly me. Thanks everyone!

error
(@error)

19 years, 3 months ago

I personally place all my files in my own folder under /wp-content/themes. Keeps the /wp-content folder a little less cluttered (and with all the junk it’s accumulating at the rate I keep uploading stuff…)