echo-zoe

Ivovic,

Thanks so much for your persistence and help. With a few extra minutes this morning to take another stab at it, I think I got it working!!

I haven’t had time to pick through it with a fine-toothed comb, but on the surface everything looks great!

The key was to input: <?php rewind_posts(); ?> at the beginning of the second and each subsequent loop, and remove <?php else: ?> for the same loops.

Thanks again!!!

I cut the main site/theme down to one loop for the time being, and that works fine. I still hope to get the multi-loop design working though.

I am very much a novice when it comes to the php aspects of developing a template, but that seems to make sense. I must not yet be understanding it fully though because I tweaked it and my tweaks yield nothing at all – just a blank white page.

Here is what I changed the index.php file to:

<?php get_header(); ?>
  <div id="container">

	    <div id="leftnav">
	  <?php get_sidebar(); ?>
		</div>
    <div id="rightnav">
	  <?php include (TEMPLATEPATH . '/sidebar2.php'); ?>
    </div>

    <div id="content">

<img src="/wp-content/themes/ZoeLines/img/ez-central-header.png">

 	<?php $my_query = query_posts('page_id=2184'); if ($my_query->have_posts()) while ($my_query->have_posts()) : $my_query->the_post(); ?>
			<div class="post" id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>">
				<div class="entry">
					<?php the_content('Read the rest of this entry &raquo;'); ?>
				</div>
			</div>

		<?php endwhile; else: ?>

 Sorry, we goofed.

	<?php endif; ?>

<img src="/wp-content/themes/ZoeLines/img/ez-podcast-header.png">

 	<?php $my_query = new WP_Query('cat=54&showposts=3'); if ($my_query->have_posts()) while ($my_query->have_posts()) : $my_query->the_post(); ?>
				<div class="entry">
				<h6><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title_attribute(); ?>"><?php the_time('F Y') ?> - <?php the_title(); ?></a></h6>
				</div>

		<?php endwhile; else: ?>

 There are no podcasts at this time.

	<?php endif; ?> 

<img src="/wp-content/themes/ZoeLines/img/ez-articles-section-header.png">

 	<?php $my_query = new WP_Query('cat=56&showposts=5'); if ($my_query->have_posts()) while ($my_query->have_posts()) : $my_query->the_post(); ?>
				<div class="entry">
				<h6><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title_attribute(); ?>"><?php the_time('F j, Y') ?> - <?php the_title(); ?></a></h6> <?php the_excerpt(); ?>
				</div>

		<?php endwhile; else: ?>

 There are no articles at this time.

	<?php endif; ?> 

<a name="blog"></a><img src="/wp-content/themes/ZoeLines/img/ez-blog-header.png">
			<?php if (have_posts()) : ?>
			<?php $my_query = new WP_Query('cat=-54,-56');
			while ($my_query->have_posts()) : $my_query->the_post(); ?>

		<div class="post" id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>">

			<div class="date"> <?php the_time('F') ?>
				<?php the_time('d, Y') ?> </div>
				<h3 class="posttitle"><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h3>

				<div class="entry">
					<?php the_content('Continue Reading &raquo;'); ?>
					<hr align=center noshade size=2 color=#990000>

				</div>

			</div>
				<p class="postmetadata">Posted in <?php the_category(', ') ?>
				<a href="<?php comments_link(); ?>"><?php comments_number('Write a Comment', '1 Comment', '% Comments'); ?></a>

		<?php endwhile; ?>

			<div class="navigation">
				<div class="alignleft"><?php next_posts_link('&laquo; Previous Entries') ?></div>
				<div class="alignright"><?php previous_posts_link('Next Entries &raquo;') ?></div>
			</div>

	<?php else : ?>

		<h2 class="center">Not Found</h2>
		<p class="center">Sorry, but you are looking for something that isn't here.

		<?php include (TEMPLATEPATH . "/searchform.php"); ?>

	<?php endif; ?>

</div>

<?php get_footer(); ?>
</div>
</body>
</html>

It also still baffles me why the same file seems to work fine on the development site.

I’m glad you prodded me to think to set up the user-switchable themes. Not only because it helps illustrate what’s going on so well but because it helps me to troubleshoot without setting a (potentially) broken theme as the default. This should be built into a stock installation of WordPress!

That’s not the 404 page, the maroon title bars don’t show up on a 404.

Also, even if I had the wrong category IDs (despite re-checking many times), at least the “Blog” portion should show something, as the categories are defined in the negative (cat=-54,-56), so it should show everything in categories that aren’t #54 or #56. I am certain that the category IDs are correct because when I am logged in to the site as administrator, the site looks as it was designed to look. The problem is that I can’t exactly allow all of my visitors to log in as administrator in order to see the site correctly.

I just installed a user-level theme switcher to allow me to keep the site live with the old theme while still being able to provide a link to the broken theme. You can access the site via the broken theme here.