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Content of Blog Not Showing Up (7 posts)

  1. hmulholland
    Member
    Posted 2 years ago #

    I'm terrible with troubleshooting wordpress :(

    My client came to me today saying her blog was not showing up: http://elisabethcarol.com/blog/. The only thing showing is the background, and when I look at the code the header doesn't open the <body> tag.

    Apparently she upgraded 2.9.2 after things weren't working in hopes that would work, and all the plugins I just updated to see if that was an issue. Neither of us have touched the code and yet all of a sudden it breaks. When I take out the <?php wp_head(); ?> the blog looks fine, except the flash banner with kimli embed does not work.

    The header code looks pretty much like this (sorry this is long):

    <?php
/**
 * @package WordPress
 * @subpackage Heather-Theme
 */
?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" <?php language_attributes(); ?>>

<head profile="http://gmpg.org/xfn/11">
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="<?php bloginfo('html_type'); ?>; charset=<?php bloginfo('charset'); ?>" />

<title><?php wp_title('&laquo;', true, 'right'); ?> <?php bloginfo('name'); ?></title>

<link rel="stylesheet" href="<?php bloginfo('template_directory'); ?>/reset.css" type="text/css" media="screen" />
<link rel="stylesheet" href="<?php bloginfo('stylesheet_url'); ?>" type="text/css" media="screen" />
<script type="text/javascript" src="<?php bloginfo('template_directory'); ?>/scripts/jquery-1.2.6.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="<?php bloginfo('template_directory'); ?>/scripts/site.js"></script>

<script src="<?php bloginfo('template_directory'); ?>/sifr/sifr.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script src="<?php bloginfo('template_directory'); ?>/sifr/sifr-addons.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="<?php bloginfo('template_directory'); ?>/sifr/sIFR-screen.css" type="text/css" media="screen" />

<link rel="pingback" href="<?php bloginfo('pingback_url'); ?>" />

<?php if ( is_singular() ) wp_enqueue_script( 'comment-reply' ); ?>

<?php wp_head(); ?>
</head>
<body <?php body_class(); ?>>
<div id="out">
<!--a href="<?php bloginfo('url'); ?>" id="site-link">Website</a-->

<div id="wrapper">

	<div id="topWrapper">
		<div id="twitterButton" class="clear">
			<a href="http://twitter.com/elisabethcarol"></a>
		</div>
	</div>

	<div id="middleWrapper">
		<div id="mainLogo" class="clear"><a href="<?php bloginfo('url'); ?>" id="logo"></a></div>

		<div id="flashBanner">
				[kml_flashembed movie="http://elisabethcarol.com/blog/wp-content/themes/Elisabeth-Theme/blog_header.swf" height="290" width="885" wmode="transparent" /]
		</div>

		<div id="mainNavContainer" class="clear">
			<ul id="mainNav" class="floatLeft clear">
				<li><a href="<?php bloginfo('url'); ?> ">Home</a></li>
				<li><span>Categories</span>
				<ul>
					<?php wp_list_categories('orderby=name&title_li='); ?>
				</ul>
			</li>
				<li><a href="http://elisabethcarol.com/blog/about/">About</a></li>
				<li><a href="http://elisabethcarol.com/blog/contact/">Contact</a></li>
			</ul>
		</div>

	<div id="page" class="hentries">

    Does anyone have any idea why all of sudden this blog stopped showing things? I would really appreciate the help, since I just have noooo idea what it's not working :(

  2. jonimueller
    Member
    Posted 2 years ago #

    Don't you love it when clients won't fess up that they were poking around in their site and blew it up? :D

    Can you login to the backend using http://elisabethcarol.com/blog/wp-admin?

    If so, check to make sure the theme templates (especially header.php) are intact.

    What version of WP was she using before she upgraded?

    Disable all the plugins (go into FTP and rename the /plugins folder to something else temporarily to fool WP into thinking there is no plugins folder if you cannot access the dashboard). Perhaps there's a legacy plugin she was using that isn't playing nice with the latest version of WP.

  3. hmulholland
    Member
    Posted 2 years ago #

    Thanks I'll go try that :)

  4. hmulholland
    Member
    Posted 2 years ago #

    Deactivated the plugins, seems like its Kimli Flash Embed that doesn't seem to play nicely. Once it's deactivated the blog works. Just a) need to get kimli flash embed to play nice or b) find a new flash embed plugin

  5. jonimueller
    Member
    Posted 2 years ago #

    Hmm. Where are you trying to put the SWF file? I use Kimli all the time, but only in posts and pages, with the latest version of WP, and it works just fine. Well, I need to qualify that. I use it specifically to embed SWF files from SimpleViewer Pro.

  6. hmulholland
    Member
    Posted 2 years ago #

    I've used it on the header.php to embed a flash banner and haven't had a problem with it until now.

    `<div id="flashBanner">
    [kml_flashembed movie="http://elisabethcarol.com/blog/wp-content/themes/Elisabeth-Theme/blog_header.swf" height="290" width="885" wmode="transparent" /]
    </div>`

  7. jonimueller
    Member
    Posted 2 years ago #

    Try Next Gen Gallery for that. It's a pretty neat little plugin that does quite a lot. :)

    We use NGG to embed random banner images in this testbed site (under production) here:
    http://gnoics.mytestbed.com

    If you take a peek at the source code you can see how it's done. :)

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