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[SOLVED] Fatal error: Call to a member function get_queried_object().

I am having this same problem with building a theme using a blank theme as the template. I suppose it has to do with my queries in index.php. As I checked throughout editing the index.php it was all good until I called the get_footer().

The footer.php is still just the default and has not yet been edited.

Please Help, thanks in advance.

This is index.php:

<?php get_header(); ?>

<?php
	$tla_plugin_folder = get_bloginfo('wpurl');
	$tla_plugin_folder .= '/wp-content/plugins/TLAFeaturedContent/';
	$tla_plugin_page = $tla_plugin_folder . 'js/feature_data1.txt';
	$tla_plugin_style = $tla_plugin_folder . 'tla_fc_style.css';
?>
	<link href="<?php echo $tla_plugin_style;?>" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">

	<script type="text/javascript" src="<?php echo $tla_plugin_folder; ?>js/feature-content.js"></script>
	<div class="tla_featured_content">
<?php
	$tla_stored_fc = file_get_contents($tla_plugin_page);
	echo $tla_stored_fc;
?>
	</div>

<?php get_sidebar('first'); ?>

<div id="main_content">

    <div class="featured_posts">

	<ul id="featured_lists">

<!-- To issue queries I need to hijack $wp_query. So, I can use it later
on the page I’m saving it to a temporary variable -->
<?php
$tempWPQuery = $wp_query;
$wp_query = null;

// Create a new WP_Query Object
$wp_query = new WP_QUERY();

$wp_query->query('posts_per_page=5&category_name=Featured');

while  ($wp_query->have_posts()):
    $wp_query->the_post();
?>
	<li>
	    <h3 class="featured_title"><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><?php $tla_the_title = $post->post_title; echo substr($tla_the_title, 0, 28); ?></a></h3>
	    <p class="featured_excerpt"><?php $tla_the_excerpt = $post->post_excerpt; echo substr($tla_the_excerpt, 0, 50); ?><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>" class="click_more">More</a></p>
	    <img src="<?php echo catch_that_image(); ?>" alt="<?php the_title(); ?>" width="60px" height="60px" class="featured_image" />
	</li>

<?php
endwhile;

// Reset wp_query to the default
$wp_query = null;
$wp_query = $temp;
?>

    </ul>
    </div> <!-- End of featured_posts div -->

    <div class="post_lists">

<!-- To issue queries I need to hijack $wp_query. So, I can use it later
on the page I’m saving it to a temporary variable -->
<?php
$tempWPQuery = $wp_query;
$wp_query = null;

// Create a new WP_Query Object
$wp_query = new WP_QUERY();

// Issue a query that returns 4 posts
$wp_query->query('posts_per_page=4');

while  ($wp_query->have_posts()):
    $wp_query->the_post();
?>
    <li>
	<h3 class="post_title"><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><?php $tla_the_title = $post->post_title; echo substr($tla_the_title, 0, 30); ?></a></h3>
	<p class="post_excerpt"><?php $tla_the_excerpt = $post->post_excerpt; echo substr($tla_the_excerpt, 0, 135); ?><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>" class="click_more">More</a></p>
	<img src="<?php echo catch_that_image(); ?>" alt="<?php the_title(); ?>" width="85px" height="85px" class="post_image" />
    </li>

<?php
endwhile;

// Reset wp_query to the default
$wp_query = null;
$wp_query = $temp;
?>

    </div> <!-- End of post_lists div -->
    <br /><br />

    <div class="more_lists">

<!-- To issue queries I need to hijack $wp_query. So, I can use it later
on the page I’m saving it to a temporary variable -->

<?php
$tempWPQuery = $wp_query;
$wp_query = null;

// Create a new WP_Query Object
$wp_query = new WP_QUERY();

$wp_query->query('posts_per_page=&&offset=4');

while  ($wp_query->have_posts()):
    $wp_query->the_post();
?>
    <div class="recent_posts">
	<h3 class="recent_title"><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><?php $tla_the_title = $post->post_title; echo substr($tla_the_title, 0, 20); ?></a></h3>
	<img src="<?php echo catch_that_image(); ?>" alt="<?php the_title(); ?>" width="150px" height="150px" class="recent_image" />
	<p class="recent_excerpt"><?php $tla_the_excerpt = $post->post_excerpt; echo substr($tla_the_excerpt, 0, 100); ?><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>" class="click_more">More</a></p>
    </div>

<?php
endwhile;

// Reset wp_query to the default
$wp_query = null;
$wp_query = $temp;
?>

    </div> <!-- End of more_posts div -->

</div> <!-- End of main_content div -->

<?php get_footer(); ?>