• If it helps, here is the entire index.php code. I didn’t place the <?php get_header(); ?> or <?php get_footer(); ?> yet until I get this piece working. Could that be the problem? I’ve done this before and it’s worked.

    <!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">
    <head>
    <title>My Blog</title>
    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
    
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="style.css" />
    </head>
    <body>
    <br />
    <table width="890" align="center" style="background-color: #FFF"; cellpadding="7" cellspacing="0"><tr><td>
    	<table width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="margin-bottom: 7px;">
     	 <tr>
    	    <td style="padding-right: 7px;"><a href="index.html"><img src="images/logo.gif" width="300" height="73" alt="My Blog" border="0" /></a></td>
       		 <td style="background-image: url(images/pattern.gif);" width="100%"></td>
     	 </tr>
    	</table>
      <table width="100%" border=3  cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
    	<tr>
    	<td class="VertMenuLeftColumn">
    		<div class="VertMenuTitle2"></div> <!-- END VERTMENUTITLE2 -->
    			<div class="VertMenuBox2">
    				<div id="nav">
    					  <dl>
    						<dt><a href="" title="Children">Item 1</a></dt>
    						<dt><a href="" title="Children">Item 2</a></dt>
    						<dt><a href="" title="Children">Item 3</a></dt>
    					  </dl>
    				</div>
    			</div> <!--End VertMenuBox2 -->
    
    			<div style="background-image: url(images/gradient.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x;">
    				<img src="images/gradient.gif" alt="" border="0" /></a>
    			</div>
    			<img src="images/spacer.gif" width="186" height="1" alt="" />
    	</td>
    
    		<td valign="top" width="100%" height="350">
    		<div style="background-color: #6C6C6C;">
    
    			<table cellpadding="0" border=0 cellspacing="0">
    				<tr>
    					<td valign="top" class="Tab"><a href='' class='Tab'>Home</a></td>
    					<td valign="top" class="Tab"><a href='' class='Tab'>About</a></td>
    					<td valign="top" class="Tab"><a href='' class='Tab'>Shopping Cart</a></td>
    					<td valign="top" class="Tab"><a href='' class='Tab'>Contact</a></td>
    				</tr>
    			</table>
           </div> <!-- END menu-->
    
    			<div style="padding: 7px 0px 0px 7px;">
    				<h3 style="font-size: 14px;">Welcome to Cake Boutique</h3>
    					INDEX.PHP in ROOT<br />
    				<p align="justify" style="font-size: 14px;">
    
    <!-- WP LOOP START -->
    LOOP BEGINS HERE <br />
    				<?php if(have_posts()) : while(have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
          				YOU HAVE POSTS
    					</p>
    					<div id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>" <?php post_class(); ?>>
    						YOU HAVE POSTS
    							<?php the_title('<h2 class="entry-title"><a href="' . get_permalink() . '" title="' . the_title_attribute('echo=0') . '" rel="bookmark">', '</a></h2>'); ?>
    							<p class="byline">
    								<span class="author vcard"><?php the_author_posts_link(); ?></span> <span class="sep">|</span>
    								<abbr class="published" title="<?php the_time(__('l, F jS, Y, g:i a', 'example')); ?>"><?php the_time(__('F j, Y', 'example')); ?></abbr>
    								<?php edit_post_link(__('Edit', 'example'), ' <span class="sep">|</span> <span class="edit">', '</span> '); ?>
    							</p>
    
    						<div class="entry-content">
    							<?php the_content(__('Continue reading', 'example')); ?>
    							<?php wp_link_pages('before=<p class="pages">' . __('Pages:','example') . '&after=</p>'); ?>
    						</div>
    
    						<p class="entry-meta">
    							<span class="categories"><?php _e('Posted in', 'example'); ?> <?php the_category(', '); ?></span>
    							<?php the_tags('<span class="tags"> <span class="sep">|</span> ' . __('Tagged', 'example') . ' ', ', ', '</span>'); ?>
    							<span class="sep">|</span> <?php comments_popup_link(__('Leave a response', 'example'), __('1 Response', 'example'), __('% Responses', 'example'), 'comments-link', __('Comments closed', 'example')); ?>
    						</p>
    
    					</div>
    
    					<?php endwhile; ?>
    
    				<?php else : ?>
    				NO POSTS
    					<p class="no-posts"><?php _e('Sorry, no posts matched your criteria', 'example'); ?></p>
    
    				<?php endif; ?>
    LOOP ENDS HERE <br />
    <!-- WP LOOP END -->
    
    		</td>
    	 </tr>
    	<tr>
    		<td class="VertMenuLeftColumn">&nbsp;</td>
    		<td class="newsletter"></td>
    	</tr>
    </table>
    
    <br />
    <div align="center">
    <span class="address"><b>ADDRESS here</span><br />
    <br />
    <span class="copyright">
    COPYRIGHT here
    </div>
    <br />
    </body>
    </html>

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