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WordPress

valeriuv
valeriuv
20,999 Points
Posted by valeriuv
valeriuv
20,999 Points

Building a Wordpress theme question: problem on the 'Work.php' page

Hello!

I am following the tutorials for building a wordpress theme and my work.php page does not show any posts. Here's the code on my text editor:

<?php 
/* 
    Template Name: Work Page
*/
get_header(); ?>
<p>This is the work.php</p>
<?php 
    $args = array(  
        'post_type' => 'work' 
        );
    $the_query = new WP_Query( $args );
?>
<?php if ( have_posts() ) : while ( $the_query->have_posts() ) : $the_query->the_post(); ?>
    <h3><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h3>
    <?php the_field( 'description' ); ?>
    <hr>
<?php endwhile; else: ?>
<p>There are no posts or pages to display.</p>
<?php endif; ?> 
<?php get_footer(); ?>

And here is the output of the browser (on localhost)

<p>This is the header</p>
<div class="menu-main-menu-container"><ul id="menu-main-menu" class="menu"><li id="menu-item-27" class="menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-27"><a href="http://localhost/valeriuvetiul.com/">Home</a></li>
<li id="menu-item-28" class="menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-28"><a href="http://localhost/valeriuvetiul.com/?page_id=6">About</a></li>
<li id="menu-item-29" class="menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-29"><a href="http://localhost/valeriuvetiul.com/?page_id=9">Blog</a></li>
<li id="menu-item-31" class="menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page current-menu-item page_item page-item-11 current_page_item menu-item-31"><a href="http://localhost/valeriuvetiul.com/?page_id=11">Work</a></li>
<li id="menu-item-30" class="menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-30"><a href="http://localhost/valeriuvetiul.com/?page_id=13">Contact</a></li>
</ul></div>
<p>This is the work.php</p>
<p>This is the footer</p>

As you can see, there is nothing between the 'This is the work.php' and 'This is the footer'.

Help is much appreciated.

Regards, Valeriu

3 Answers

valeriuv
valeriuv
20,999 Points
valeriuv
valeriuv
20,999 Points

I found the answer - there were no projects to display. I should have created them. I either missed a piece in a video somewhere, or this was not mentioned in the tutorial.

valeriuv
valeriuv
20,999 Points
valeriuv
valeriuv
20,999 Points

Related question:

In the tutorial, we change the permalink structure from default to post name. As soon as I do it, all pages aside from homepage don't show - 404 Not found error:

Not Found: The requested URL /XYZ.com/about/ was not found on this server.

It does however display as: http://localhost/XYZ.com/?page_id=6

Any ideas?

eirikvaa
eirikvaa
18,015 Points
eirikvaa
eirikvaa
18,015 Points

You could check if you have mod_rewrite enabled.

Locate httpd.conf on your local server (I'm using XAMPP right now) and find the following line: (This is from my file, my permalinks are working)

LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so

Comment it out (remove the # in front of it) to enable.