are you positive that is the template that is being used to generate your home page? Does your theme have a home.php template file?
to test, put a few words of output in the index.php file and refresh your homepage. If you see the text there, yes index.php is being used. If not, another template file is used.
Quite likely you have a template file that is limiting the home page display to a single post using a query_posts or wp_query statement.
I am not sure why this is, but the answer to my problem was to move get_sidebar() to run after The Loop (previously I had it running before the query). Seems to fix everything.
That depends on what code was running in the sidebar – it could have been hijacking the main query loop since it ran before the main page code.
This is what I have in sidebar.php
That makes perfect sense. I am using a Loop to display the latest news item in the sidebar. Btw, if this the sort of situation I should be using rewind in?
Here’s what I have in sidebar.php:
<div id="sidebar">
<div id="updates">
<h2>News</h2>
<?php query_posts('category_name=news&showposts=1'); ?>
<?php if ( have_posts() ) : while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); ?>
<a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><?php the_date('Y.m.d'); the_excerpt(); ?>[Read more]</a>
<?php endwhile; else: ?>
<p><?php _e('Sorry, no posts matched your criteria.'); ?></p>
<?php endif; ?>
</div>
<div id="twitter_div">
<h2>Twitter</h2>
<ul id="twitter_update_list"></ul>
<a href="http://twitter.com/Tokyo2Osaka" id="twitter-link" style="display:block;text-align:right;">follow me on Twitter</a>
</div>
<div id="flickr">
<h2>Flickr</h2>
<?php echo do_shortcode('[flickr-gallery mode="recent"]'); ?>
</div>
<div id="download_proposal_wrapper">
<a id="download_proposal" href="http://tokyo2osaka2009.s3.amazonaws.com/Tokyo_to_Osaka_proposal.pdf"></a>
</div>
<a href="http://www.rickshawbags.com/"><img class="sponsorlogo" height="41" width="156" src="<?php bloginfo('template_directory') ?>/images/sponsor-rickshaw-trans.png" alt="Rickshaw" /></a>
<img class="sweetbike" height="143" width="232" src="<?php bloginfo('template_directory') ?>/images/bike-silo-trans.png" alt="Sweet Bike" />
</div>
instead of using query_posts and the default page loop use code like this in secondary loops
(think I got this code’s syntax right)
<div id="updates">
<h2>News</h2>
<?php $newsPosts = new WP_Query();
$newsPosts->query('category_name=news&showposts=1');
while ($newsPosts->have_posts()) : $newsPosts->the_post(); ?>
<a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><?php the_date('Y.m.d'); the_excerpt(); ?>[Read more]</a>
<?php endwhile; else: ?>
</div>
That, by the way, is why you were only getting one post before, because the query the main loop was executing was the same one that was in the sidebar, because of how you coded the sidebar query and with the sidebar code running before the main loop code. Even rewind posts would probably not have done it – would just have run the same query again.
no, i already see an error
last line should be
<?php endwhile; ?>
Ahh, I am beginning to really understand the Loop better. Now I see the reason for such a long codex page on it.
