problems with Templates Vs. Pages

  • Elgigante

    (@elgigante)


    14 years, 5 months ago

    even the title sounds dumb. but here is my problem

    I have a page set up called BLOG and Im posting HTML in the pages and it isnt showing up.. so for my blog template

    I am calling sidebar , loop , header & footer. is there something else Im not calling?

    I want it to look like this page MEDIA COMPARISON

    with the 3 icons and the bracket banner. a simple fix would be to put that part in the header but it is going to be diff on each page..

    I can have that top portion visible or the bloggy stuff visible but not both for some reason

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  • esmi

    (@esmi)

    14 years, 5 months ago

    Your main posts Page will use the theme’s index.php template file automatically.

    Thread Starter Elgigante

    (@elgigante)

    14 years, 5 months ago

    but I dont want that on my home page. the homepage is gonna be some other BS content that hasnt been decided yet..

    How do I get what i post on pages to show up above loop.php

    esmi

    (@esmi)

    14 years, 5 months ago

    Have you created a static front page yet?

    Thread Starter Elgigante

    (@elgigante)

    14 years, 5 months ago

    not yet. but I will

    esmi

    (@esmi)

    14 years, 5 months ago

    Do that first.

    Thread Starter Elgigante

    (@elgigante)

    14 years, 5 months ago

    okay… Ive set that up.. the Blog page is my default Posts page

    here is my Blog.php

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    when I goto pages and try and add content other than posts it wont show up? am I missing something?

    esmi

    (@esmi)

    14 years, 5 months ago

    Your main posts Page will use the theme’s index.php template file automatically.

    Thread Starter Elgigante

    (@elgigante)

    14 years, 5 months ago

    okay so the extra content I want like the extra div’s and stuff I put in index.php?

    I got it

    esmi

    (@esmi)

    14 years, 5 months ago

    so the extra content I want like the extra div’s and stuff I put in index.php?

    Yes.

    Thread Starter Elgigante

    (@elgigante)

    14 years, 5 months ago

    duhh. LOL 1st time with wordpress, I forcing myself to learn it..

    So Im a Flash designer that doesn’t use Flash and a web designer that doesnt use wordpress. How do I make a decent living doing this haha

    Chip Bennett

    (@chipbennett)

    14 years, 5 months ago

    okay… Ive set that up.. the Blog page is my default Posts page

    here is my Blog.php

    FULLSTOP.

    WordPress doesn’t know or recognize a blog.php template file. If you want to use that template file for your Blog Posts Index, you need to rename it as home.php.

    esmi

    (@esmi)

    14 years, 5 months ago

    @chip: The site in question is using a static front page. 🙂

    Chip Bennett

    (@chipbennett)

    14 years, 5 months ago

    The site in question is using a static front page. 🙂

    Doesn’t matter; blog.php is still not a recognized template file in the Template Hierarchy. 🙂

    No matter what you do, you will be unable to get WordPress to use blog.php as the Blog Posts Index. The page assigned to display the Blog Posts Index ignores any custom page template meta data. It will only ever use home.php, falling back to index.php.

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