tomviolin

I had a problem where all my content was blank. I discovered it was only my handwritten theme- all others worked. I figured out that it was because I had a file called content-.php that was serving as the template part for pages. Note the HYPHEN before the dot. This used to work before 3.8, apparently due to a bug that has now been fixed in 3.8.

The key appears to be the following line from the theme’s index.php:

get_template_part( 'content', get_post_format() );

It is supposed to use the PHP file named content- followed by the post format, to output the content. Since for my pages, get_post_format() returns the empty string, the filename of content-.php would work.

Now as of 3.8, WordPress doesn’t apparently look for that file anymore, and get_template_part() just looks for content.php when the post format is empty. I suspect that the previous behavior was a bug, and that I somehow managed to come across it by (probably mistakenly) naming my template file with the extra hyphen in there. Since it worked, I didn’t have to fix what did not appear to be broken, until now.

So the solution for me was simply to rename content-.php to content.php. Once I did that everything started working again.