<?php include (TEMPLATEPATH . (‘wp-header.php’); ?> perhaps?
I’m a long time designer but I’m new to WP (this month) so that may or may not work!
Jonji
Thread Starter
CSKnet
(@csknet)
Thanks for your reply, but that won’t work. wp-blog-header.php is needed to allow all WP functionality, and it is in the WP root directory, not the template directory. 🙁
Any other takers?
I am trying to create a new page in the template
You need to explain this… it doesn’t make much sense as you wrote.
By template file do you mean a new page template? If so you’ll have to use this code
<?php
/*
Template Name: YOUR TEMPLATE NAME
*/
?>
Oh that!
Well, it is in the Documentation, just read it…
Pages#Page_Templates
Thread Starter
CSKnet
(@csknet)
Jeremy – thanks, yes, I have that in there.
Moshu – I have read it…Yes, I am creating a page within a theme, that I will link to, and want all WP functionality within that page.
My current theme has an archive.php. I am creating “archives.php” to be a very customized archives page that I am building.
The beginning of the page code is thus:
<?php
/*
Template Name: archives
*/
?>
<?php
define('WP_USE_THEMES', true);
require('./wp-blog-header.php');
?>
<?php get_sidebar(); ?>
And I still get the above error
archive.php is NOT a Page template.
archives.php must be a Page template. And as Jeremy told you, this is what you need:
<?php
/*
Template Name: archives
*/
?>
<?php get_sidebar(); ?>
etc etc
Don’t over-complicate.
And NO, you can never link directly to a Template file. Don’t even try. You create a new Page (in Write subpanel) using that new template.
Thread Starter
CSKnet
(@csknet)
Thanks Moshu, although you did say the same thing as before, which I addressed, and added some rudeness. I still say thanks.
No, you did not address it: you have the “require…” code lines in your template file and those are not needed for a template file that is located in the theme folder.
If you want to do something else, then explain it (without smartass remarks).
