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1. videoguy9
   Member
   Posted 11 months ago #

   Need some help from the code-savvy with this one...

   The theme I am using has two alternate page templates included, one of which is exactly what I want...same page setup, but with full page width available for content and no sidebar.

   However, when I use this template for the page and preview or publish all I see is the empty template...none of the content I have entered is visible.

   I am thinking this is somehow to do with the fact that this template is called "Links" and when I look at the code for it I see the following:
   

   <?php
   /*
   Template Name: Links
   */
   ?>
   
   <?php get_header(); ?>
   
   <div id="content" class="widecolumn">
   
   <h2>Links:</h2>
   <ul>
   <?php get_links_list(); ?>
   </ul>
   
   </div>
   
   <?php get_footer(); ?>

   Is the line "<?php get_links_list(); ?> the reason why it does not function in the way that I want?

   If so, can I just delete the line, or do I need to add something to make it function as a normal page?

   Apologies for sounding clueless here, but php is not my normal habitat and I am a WP newbie.

2. dbmartin
   Member
   Posted 11 months ago #

   By "content" do you mean posts you've written? Or text typed when you created the page?

3. videoguy9
   Member
   Posted 11 months ago #

   I am writing a new "Page" not post for which I have chosen a parent page and selected the "links" template.

   I have inserted a Page title, body text and banner code, but none of this appears when the page is previewed or published.

   The code I posted is the entire content of the links.php file from the Theme editor.

4. dbmartin
   Member
   Posted 11 months ago #

   Your content isn't showing because a "Page" is similar to a Post. So you need the LOOP code in your page template file.

   1. Copy the following code and paste into a text editor (ex: Notepad).
   2. Save it as "wide_page.php".
   3. Upload the file into your current theme's directory.
   4. In your Dashboard, when you go to edit this Page, you should now see "Wide_Page" as a page template option in the drop-down menu.

   <?php
   /*
   Template Name: Wide_Page
   */
   ?>
   
   <?php get_header(); ?>
   
   <div id="content" class="widecolumn">
   
   <?php if (have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
   		<div class="post" id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>">
   		<h2><?php the_title(); ?></h2>
   			<div class="entry">
   				<?php the_content('<p class="serif">Read the rest of this page &raquo;
   '); ?>
   
   				<?php wp_link_pages(array('before' => '<strong>Pages:</strong> ', 'after' => '
   ', 'next_or_number' => 'number')); ?>
   
   			</div>
   		</div>
   		<?php endwhile; endif; ?>
   	<?php edit_post_link('Edit this entry.', '', '
   '); ?>
   
   </div>
   
   <?php get_footer(); ?>

5. videoguy9
   Member
   Posted 11 months ago #

   Thanks so much.

   Really appreciate it...hope someone else makes your day as good as you have made mine.

   Have a wonderful holiday season too...

6. dbmartin
   Member
   Posted 11 months ago #

   No prob. You too!

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