Jeremy Pry

Could you be more specific about which formatting isn’t correct, and what it should be? It looks like the right sidebar is influenced by the formatting for anchor tags, but there are only div elements in the left sidebar, which is part of the difference.

I regularly create table-less layouts for sites that look the same from browser to browser using HTML and/or XHTML and CSS. esmi is 100% correct… Sites laid out with tables are a thing of the past. Keep tables for what they were meant for… tabular (think spreadsheet) data.

It’s possible that the problem is more simple… When you create a new page or post on the iPhone or iPad app, the default setting is to create a local copy. You have to change the post setting to actually post live to the website. Is it possible that this was overlooked?

Iain is right… this isn’t the right place for graphics editing.

However, it’s not nearly as hard as you think. Yon don’t even really need a professional level program like Photoshop. You could easily download GIMP and do it yourself. It’s at least worth a shot. Otherwise, you may want to look for some image editing forums where someone may be able to help you.

I see how the rounded tops and bottoms are getting there… The theme is originally using a <div> before and after the post (the first section). The top has id="postheader" and the bottom has id="postfooter". These are how the rounded corners are created.

Unfortunately, you can only have one element with any given id on each page. The way you would work around this is to change these DIVs to use a class instead. If you did that, then you could insert them before and after your own posts just like the original. Here’s what the modification would look like in the code: http://wordpress.pastebin.com/kcPGwhaf.

What you would then have to do is find any reference to #postheader and #postfooter in your CSS file, and change them to .postheader and .postfooter respectively. That will correctly change the styling.

It looks like most of the problem is syntax. Here are some problems I see:

1. You’re mixing HTML and PHP improperly. HTML tags (i.e. the <strong> tags) either need to be outside of the <?php ?> containers, or they need to be printed with the echo function.
2. For logical operations, make sure you’re using the correct operators. The “or” operator is a double pipe || not the word “or”.
3. Double-check the usage of Function_Reference/wp_title , Function_Reference/bloginfo, and Function_Reference/get_bloginfo

I’ve made a few tweaks that may help. Because the code is a bit on the long side, I’ve started a pastbin. Here’s the link:

http://wordpress.pastebin.com/MSyB7cHz

Try using the code I modified, and see what results you get.

Try adding the code you mentioned in the post above before the <?php get_footer(); ?> line.

The most common format for a WordPress page template to take is this (obviously this is simplified):

<?php
/*
 * Template name: <template name>
 */
get_header();
if ( have_posts() ) while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); ?>
<!-- the HTML and PHP styling for each individual post goes here -->
<?php endwhile; ?>
<? get_sidebar(); /* If you have a sidebar! */ ?>
<? get_footer(); ?>

In regards to the comments thing, find this line in your code:

<?php comments_popup_link('No Comments »', '1 Comment »', '% Comments »'); ?>

and change it to this:

<?php comments_popup_link('No Comments', '1 Comment', '% Comments'); ?>