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Question

So the front page of the allisongrayce.com exercise looked like this:

This is the header

This is the font-page.php

This is the footer

After I did the wordpress loop exercise and put in this code:

<?php get_header(); ?>

<p>This is the front-page.php</p>

<?php if ( have_posts() ) : while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); ) ?>

<h3><?php the_title(); ?></h3>
<?php the_content(); ?>
<hr>

<?php endwhile; else: ?>

<p>There are no posts or pages here</p>

<?php endif; ?>

<?php get_footer(); ?>

Exactly like the code from the video. Then refreshed the page on the localhost and it went blank. Any suggestions?

I'm on a mac using MAMP. My page in the reading settings are listed as static page with the front page: home and posts page:blog.

Don't know how to fix it. Please help.

Answer 1 · 2013-10-09T21:39:03Z

October 9, 2013 9:39pm

Found it,

I copied and pasted this code into the front-page.php of my current project and it kicked back the error code of an unexpected ")" on the loop.

This

<?php if ( have_posts() ) : while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); ) ?>

should be this

<?php if ( have_posts() ) : while ( have_posts() ) : the_post();  ?>

Answer 2 · 2013-10-09T21:13:54Z

October 9, 2013 9:13pm

Do you have a functions.php file? Are you using a stand-alone theme or a child theme?

Usually when the screen goes blank for me on WP it's because I have an error in my code inside my functions.php file.

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