scribblerguy

Welcome to the wonderful world of browser rendering differences.

It looks like your pages have some invalid XHTML markup. For example, from the end of one of your pages:

</body>
</html>

</div>
<!--End Main Content Container -->

A div element should be closed before the end tag of the body element </body>. There seem to be other issues of unclosed HTML elements as well, which could screw up the way a browser processes CSS stylesheet rules.

To fix the errors, you’ll need to examine and validate your theme’s files. I’d create a very simple new post or page (no images, just a short plain text message. Then validate that page and edit your theme as necessary to correct the problems.

The WWW Consortium hosts a validation service: http://validator.w3.org/

Useful links for HTML and CSS are in the Codex: Know Your Sources

When you add the template tags for your the main content, that needs to be inside a “Loop” as well, because, to get the template tags to work, the_post() function is necessary.

From your code, starting at line 55:

<?php $wp_query = $my_query; ?>
<h1><?php the_title(); ?></h1>
<?php the_content(); ?>

The last two lines need to be inside a Loop.

Based on your current file, replace the above code with the following, and that should get everything working.

<?php $wp_query = $my_query; ?>
<?php if ( have_posts() ) : while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); ?>
<h1><?php the_title(); ?></h1>
<?php the_content(); ?>
<?php endwhile; else: ?>
<?php _e('Sorry, no posts matched your criteria.'); ?>
<?php endif; ?>

I’m guessing you’ve found your way into the Codexquery_posts, which is good. Without see your more of your source code, I can only take a guess at what’s wrong.

As you may know, the query_posts function, when before a loop, overrides the default query that WP runs for a particular page (e.g. the most recent posts for a front page). If a query_posts() call is put before one loop, and then another loop is used, that second loop will use the same query as the first query_posts() call.

I think that’s what happening in your case. The Loop, especially the multiple loop example #2. You’ll probably want to do something like that – save the temp query and then call it before your second loop.

If I misunderstood or you’re still having problems, then you’ll need to post the full code of your index.php and the sidebar.php (or whereever this navigation is going) so we can understand what’s all going on. Paste those into the WP pastebin at this address: http://wordpress.pastebin.ca/. Then, link to the files.

Also, I’m getting database connection errors when I try to visit your site.

Duplicate

If you have a file in your theme’s folder named page.php, then it will be used throughout your site automatically for all “static” pages. Only use a page template if you want some pages to styled differently / have different sidebar(s) / exclude content / etc.

I just need it to be limited to the page the template is currently being applied to. Make sense? Help?

This is done automatically when someone navigates to the address of a particular page: WP only retrieves the content for the particular page and displays that inside “The Loop.”

For your site http://www.inourownwordsmcc.org, if you navigate to the About page (at http://www.inourownwordsmcc.org/?page_id=2), WP will only grab the content and meta data for the page with an ID equal to “2” and nothing else. There’s nothing you have to do. This is automatic.

Please take a look at Template Hierarchy and Pages for more info.

Google search: core dump php

Here’s what I’d do: Try a clean install of WordPress (delete all old files, re-upload, new, empty database). Make sure you backup your blog (export all posts and also back up the database).

If the dumps still occurs, then contact your webhost’s support, because this looks like a server issue.

Errata for earlier comment: The “Anyone can register” option would be for allowing any random person to get a user-name and password so they don’t have to enter their name, email, website each time they comment on your blog. If you don’t want to have to deal with having registered readers, then you can uncheck that.

fybro, my suggestion should fix your problem. I see that you’re using the default theme and I checked the settings on my test site. Don’t let poppabear’s post confuse you.

poppabear: By doing what scribblerguy suggests, anyone can add comments. How do you fix Fybro’s problem without unchecking the registered users block?

It’s not nice to hijack someone else’s support thread.