Bird is the Worm

If the moderators could please delete this thread, I would appreciate it. It turns out the problem is bigger than I thought, and I’d like to start a new thread with the updated information.

Thanks.

Sorry about that, mod. I should’ve known better on that one, for sure.

Here’s the code, and using the code function, just in case it got messed up above…

<?php get_header();?>
<div id="content">
<div id="content-main">
		<?php if ( have_posts() ) : while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); ?>
			<div <?php post_class(); ?> id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>">
				<div class="posttitle">
			<h2><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="<?php printf(__('Permanent Link to %s','mistylook'), the_title_attribute('echo=0')); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h2>
				<p class="postmetadata"><?php the_time(get_option("date_format")); ?> <?php printf(__('by %s','mistylook'), mistylook_get_author_posts_link()); ?> <?php edit_post_link(__('Edit','mistylook'), ' | ', ' '); ?> </p>
				</div>

				<div class="entry">
					<?php the_content(__('Continue Reading &raquo;','mistylook')); ?>
					<?php wp_link_pages(); ?>
				</div>

				<p class="post-info"><?php printf(__('Posted in %s','mistylook'), get_the_category_list(', ')); ?> | <?php the_tags( __('Tagged','mistylook').' ', ', ', ' | ' ); ?><?php comments_popup_link(__('Leave a Comment »','mistylook'), __('1 Comment »','mistylook'), __('% Comments »','mistylook')); ?></p>
				<?php comments_template(); ?>
			</div>
		<?php endwhile; else : ?>
			<h2 class="center"><?php _e('Not Found','mistylook'); ?></h2>
			<p class="center"><?php _e('Sorry, but you are looking for something that isn’t here.','mistylook'); ?></p>
		<?php endif; ?>
		<p align="center" class="posts-nav-link">
			<?php posts_nav_link(' - ',__('« Newer Posts','mistylook'),__('Older Posts »','mistylook')) ?>
		</p>
</div><!-- end id:content-main -->
<?php get_sidebar();?>
<?php get_footer();?>

Okay, so what I wound up doing was copying a new version of my functions.php file onto my site via Filezilla.

I now get a new error message. I’ll post that error message, plus the code that it relates to, plus some more info that I’ve picked up.

Error Message:

Fatal error: Call to undefined function mistylook_get_author_posts_link() in /home/dssjazz/notesfromtheholler.com/wp-content/themes/mistylook/index.php on line 8

The Code from my Index.php file:

<?php get_header();?>
<div id="content">
<div id="content-main">
		<?php if ( have_posts() ) : while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); ?>
			<div <?php post_class(); ?> id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>">
				<div class="posttitle">
			<h2><a>" rel="bookmark" title="<?php printf(__('Permanent Link to %s','mistylook'), the_title_attribute('echo=0')); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h2>
				<p class="postmetadata"><?php the_time(get_option("date_format")); ?> <?php printf(__('by %s','mistylook'), mistylook_get_author_posts_link()); ?> <?php edit_post_link(__('Edit','mistylook'), ' | ', ' '); ?> </p>
				</div>

				<div class="entry">
					<?php the_content(__('Continue Reading »','mistylook')); ?>
					<?php wp_link_pages(); ?>
				</div>

				<p class="post-info"><?php printf(__('Posted in %s','mistylook'), get_the_category_list(', ')); ?> | <?php the_tags( __('Tagged','mistylook').' ', ', ', ' | ' ); ?><?php comments_popup_link(__('Leave a Comment »','mistylook'), __('1 Comment »','mistylook'), __('% Comments »','mistylook')); ?></p>
				<?php comments_template(); ?>
			</div>
		<?php endwhile; else : ?>
			<h2 class="center"><?php _e('Not Found','mistylook'); ?></h2>
			<p class="center"><?php _e('Sorry, but you are looking for something that isn’t here.','mistylook'); ?></p>
		<?php endif; ?>
		<p align="center" class="posts-nav-link">
			<?php posts_nav_link(' - ',__('« Newer Posts','mistylook'),__('Older Posts »','mistylook')) ?>
		</p>
</div><!-- end id:content-main -->
<?php get_sidebar();?>
<?php get_footer();?>

More Information:

Whereas before I FTP’d the new function.php file, I was completely unable to move around my site, now I have full access to my admin panel, etc. The only place I can’t do anything is the “front of the house.”

Also, I de-activated all my widgets, to see if that did anything.

Interestingly, a preview of my site under a different theme, like “Contempt,” actually showed my posts as they should. However, a preview of my site under current theme “Mistylook” gave me just the above error message.

All of my content (ie, Posts) exist on my site, which I can view through the admin panel. I just can’t see them on the Main Site Page.

Questions:

1. Is there something in that above code that I need to edit, some sort of simple syntax that would fix it?
2. Would there be any use in temporarily switching my theme to “Contempt,” then deleting current theme “Mistylook” off my admin panel, then re-installing it and switching back to it from “Contempt”?
3. Is there code in a different php file that I need to tweak, perhaps, which is causing the above error message to occur?

Thanks for your help. I do appreciate it.

[Moderator Note: Please post code or markup snippets between backticks or use the code button. Or better still – use the pastebin. As it stands, your code may now have been permanently dmaged/corrupted by the forum’s parser.]

Hi.

Just a follow-up post.

I found a plug-in that seems to have done exactly what I needed. It’s called Dynamic Headers by Nicasio Design, and can be found here…

http://nicasiodesign.com/blog/category/wordpress-plugins/

It was using the search term “dynamic headers” that got me a bunch of plugin options that addressed my original question. Previously I had been using the search term “featured image”, which provided with interesting reading, but wasn’t the optimal phrase for me to use for my investigation.

I just installed the above plugin today, and it seems to be working fine (though I always hesitate to make a definitive statement like that until some time has passed). It was very simple to set up. Ridiculously simple.

I should add that other dynamic header plug-ins popped up on my search, some which offered enhanced functionality. They were more than what I was looking for, but others reading this might want more options, so I wanted to mention that there are other dynamic header plugins out there.

Cheers.

P.S. If someone wants to put a “resolved” checkmark on this thread, do so with my blessing. Thanks again to everyone who gives their time and experience on forums like this.

Okay, it works again. I haven’t heard back from the person who originally reported the error, but I was able to reproduce his error message before and now I can’t. I think maybe a couple of the things I modified before (ie, the fix-rss-feed and deleting some blank lines) may have actually fixed it, but I just needed to wait a bit longer for the server to reset.

Now that I think back on it, there have been other “bigger” changes I’ve made to the site and just wasn’t aware of the time interval before those changes were reflected in real time. That may account for the delay in this instance too.

Thanks again for your help. It’s always comforting to know that helpful people are out there looking out.

Cheers.

P.S. Please feel free to hang one of those “Problem Resolved” signs on this thread.

So, then the blank lines that many sites recommended deleting (before and after php files), that’s basically just something to go through the Editor line by line all the various menu options?