Elizabeth

Nothing! It’s a completely invisible problem, I have no idea what’s going on.

I have nine more back ups from the last month and am slowly working my way back through restoring each of them when the last one hasn’t worked but so far they’re all yielding the same results.

Nothing happens, or rather when I first installed WP but before I imported the database, everything was as it should be on a fresh install (i.e. “Hello, World”, one test comment, etc.). After importing the database, nothing changed even though all of the content of the database is there when I look in phpMyAdmin.

Yes, as I said, it displayed fine in the past with other themes. So while it’s definitely something to do with this theme, there doesn’t look to be anything weird in the code that would cause that. `
<div class=”post_content”>
<div class=”inner”>
<h3>< a href=”<?php the_permalink() ?>”><?php the_title(); ?></ a></h3>
<?php the_excerpt() ?>
</div>
</div> `
There’s nothing odd or complicated in the snippet where it appears, so I’m at a loss. (The gap between the < and the “a” for the link is because it wasn’t showing up properly in this post; it’s coded properly in the theme.)

Yup, I’ve read through those pages on the codex. They don’t address my issue, though, which is that I am trying to avoid specifying a year in the query (as in your example) so that the query is still usable regardless of what year you are viewing. (I may not have articulated this clearly enough in my original post.)

I ended up with the following solutions, for those who are interested.

For all posts organized by date in any given year (modified by a snippet of code I found elsewhere in the forums):

$posts = query_posts($query_string .’&orderby=date&order=ASC&posts_per_page=-1′);

For all posts organized by category in any given year:

$categories=get_categories(‘orderby=name&order=DESC’);
foreach($categories as $category) {
$posts=get_posts($query_string .
‘&showposts=-1&cat=’. $category->term_id);
if ($posts) {
echo ‘ ‘;
foreach($posts as $post) {
setup_postdata($post);

For all posts organized alphabetically in a given year:

$posts = query_posts($query_string . ‘&orderby=title&order=asc&posts_per_page=-1’);

The ultimate result is that no matter what date parameter I put in here (either a year value, a month value, or a date value), the page will only return posts that match that date parameter (instead of giving me all posts in all years).

It’s working so far, so I’m probably just going to go with it.