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1. CatLady916
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   This is my first wordpress theme - and I'm having trouble...

   I'm making a pure static site and i'm making my page.php - this is the code i'm having issues with:

   <div id="contentWrap">
   <?php include(TEMPLATEPATH . '/sidebar2.php'); ?>
   
   <div class="content btmPad">
   <?php the_content(); ?>
   
   </div>
   
   </div><!-- end of contentWrap -->

   before i added TEMPLATEPATH, the content from my static pages were visible, however when I add TEMPLATEPATH, the content disappears. what am i doing wrong? any help will be greatly appreciated?

2. Edward Caissie
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   I would suggest replacing
   TEMPLATEPATH
   with
   bloginfo('template_url')

3. alchymyth
   The Sweeper
   Posted 2 years ago #

   after you tried @cais' suggestion,
   have a look into sidebar2.php and check if something could be wrong in there. also, check the produced html code in your browser (View Source in IE; View PageSource of Ctrl U in firefox) to see haw far the php files got executed.

   did you get any error messages on the screen?
   link to your site?

4. CatLady916
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   @cais - i will try your suggestion this evening and keep you posted - thank you!!!

   @alcymyth - i don't get any error messages, i forgot to add that the sidebar2.php does appear when i use TEMPLATEPATH - it just doesn't make my the_content tag work...

5. CatLady916
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   oh yeah and i'm developing this locally then i will make it live

6. CatLady916
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   ok - so i replaced it this way in the code:

   <?php include(bloginfo('template_url') . '/sidebar2.php'); ?>

   and this is what it produced in the browser where the content should be:

   http://localhost/wordpress/wp-content/themes/qualityStyle

   while this isn't what i wanted it to do - it did produce something in the content area and the sidebar2!

   so am i doing something wrong to this code?

7. CatLady916
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   ok - so i replaced it this way in the code:

   <?php include(bloginfo('template_url') . '/sidebar2.php'); ?>

   and this is what it produced in the browser where the content should be:

   http://localhost/wordpress/wp-content/themes/qualityStyle

   while this isn't what i wanted it to do - it did produce something in the content area and the sidebar2!

   so am i doing something wrong to this code?

8. alchymyth
   The Sweeper
   Posted 2 years ago #

   'the_content()' needs the wordpress loop to work

9. CatLady916
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   oh! i thought i needed to use the loop to display blog posts - so i need it to display static page content too?

   i'll try that this evening and keep you posted - thanks!!!

10. CatLady916
    Member
    Posted 2 years ago #

    thank you so much alchymyth! that TOTALLY worked!

    i'm teaching myself while following along in a book and the book's example is a blog and it touches briefly on static pages - so i assumed that the loop was just for blog posts...

    yay!!! when i make the site live (over the weekend) - i'll post the link...thanks!

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