Since this was posted 2 months ago, have you solved it? If you haven’t, what’s your site?
It’s hard to say without knowing your site and seeing the problem, but assuming your theme works with CP, the placement of the code does indeed make a difference. I’ve found my comic area by try and error as well.
Thanks!
No I have yet to solve it. So far the best I’ve been able to do is get a white line to show up. Either in the blog section or under the comic.
The site is plasticpaddypogue.com
The white line is a separator that is supposed to appear below the comic info. So appaprently you got the area to show but not the content.
I’ve had a look at your site and also at my own because I once solved that (different theme, but that shouldn’t matter) (though I do like yours. Looking it up next).
If you want it to show up right under the comic, it should be as easy as adding the do_action() line right under the one for the comic in the php. It’ll show up below the “Under Comic” sidebar, above the main container. If you want it in the container, above the blog, it should be somewhere below the <div id=”container”>tag . Though, I just tried that on my own site and couldn’t seem to find the right spot either. Might be some problem accessing the WP loop. That stuff got a bit messy with the custom post type CE uses.
Alternately, you can do what I did (it’s a bit of a cheat, but I won’t tell if you don’t):
I’m using a plugin called “PHP code for posts” (using it anyway because some of my comics are interactive) which allows you to save php code into snippets which can be used within sidebars. I saved a snippet with some formatting (for getting rid of that white line) and the do_action() line and put that snippet into a text widget in the “under Comic” sidebar. If you want it in the container, above the blog, see if there’s a widget area for that. Something like “above blog post” or “above content”.
No such luck, at least not to get it into the blog feed like I want it. I’m beginning to suspect that the theme itself just doesn’t know how to format it. If I put it nearly anywhere in the content/index, I get a white line.
I suggest you go with the php snippet cheat then. On my site, that works just about everywhere there’s a widget area.
No luck on that either. I get the same effect, just the white line drawn across.
Also, I attempted to switch over from Nirvana and learn to do a theme mostly from scratch. I used _S as a base back in May. <?php do_action('comic-blog-area'); ?> worked just fine, but I learned the hard way I should have kept the theme name much shorter. So this weekend I downloaded _S again and now I get the white line instead of the blog area. Obviously _S has been updated, but I’m confused as to what would cause this. So far the only thing major I found different is the function.php page. Also of note is that do_action('comic-post-info'); and do_action('comic-post-extras'); Appear to work just fine in both Nirvana as well as _S
Huh. Strange. If it worked in -S and doesn’t work now, it can have several causes. One is, as you’ve pointed out, that it updated in a way that makes the comic blog post not show. Another is that by reinstsaling _S you undid a modification that you made earlier.
. Have you checked if the settings in Comics/config/gerneral are still right? (“Disable the Comic Post on the Home Page” obviously needs to be unchecked. I don’t think that’s it or you wouldn’t get the white line, but just to make sure. It may have reset itself at an update.)
– Have you tried replacing functions.php with the one you had when it worked? Or cutting and pasting relevant-looking stuff from the old functions.php to the new one?
It’s hard to tell if that’s it without seeing the files, but if it’s indeed a functions.php thing, it may be about when it accesses the loop or something.
If you get the white line, that sounds as if the do_action is actually being done, it just doesn’t get the actual text from the post.
Let’s try something whacky: Copy the text from your comic blog post into the Excerpt (in the edit Comic mask, right below the actual post). Just to see if it’ll read it from there?
Sorry, that’s all I got right now.
