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Graham Kite
Courses Plus Student 8,123 PointsWordpress theme error
I have a wordpress theme that shows a "404 in not found in the title" and the home page shows as blank. IE no content.
This is the code in the header.php
<title><?php if (is_home()) { echo bloginfo('name'); } elseif (is_404()) { echo '404 Not Found'; } elseif (is_category()) { echo 'Category:'; wp_title(''); } elseif (is_search()) { echo 'Search Results'; } elseif ( is_day() || is_month() || is_year() ) { echo 'Archives:'; wp_title(''); } else { echo wp_title('|',true,'right') . bloginfo('name'); } ?> </title>
The ' are single quotes so they should work. The code says if is home and the page is home, so I would not expect an error there.
I get a page title on every page except the home page. And also no content. What am I missing here, and if not here where should I be looking and what for?
3 Answers
Kevin Korte
28,149 PointsAre you confusing home and front-page? Do have a front-page set?
John Locke
15,479 PointsGraham:
Does your theme have a home.php or index.php file? The home.php will be the default home page if there is no specific page set to Home. If there is no home.php, your theme will look for the index.php. Make sure to set either your latest posts or a specific page to Home in your General Settings.
Graham Kite
Courses Plus Student 8,123 Points@Kevin. no confusion. Whatever page is set as the front-page or (home page has the error). I can change the static page and the new one shows the error.
@John Has an index.php but no home.php. I tried creating a new template last night and that did not work. I will try using a home.php today
pages and posts set correctly as are permalinks and I tested in another theme and it worked. So unless I want to do a lot of duplicated work and cpt and fields I am stuck fixing this theme, which I would prefer.
Graham Kite
Courses Plus Student 8,123 Pointshave tested a homepage with just a <p> tag and a line of text. The 404 error goes, none of the pages display titles and the static/home/front-page still display the header, menu and optin, instead of just a single line of text.
So there is a issue in the code somewhere. Problem for me is I have no idea where to go from here.
Graham Kite
Courses Plus Student 8,123 PointsBy a process of replacing code from templates and php files, I have worked out there is a single-optinpage.php template that is several layers deep in the structure and that file is being called in several templates.
I can set the home page to page.php, home,page.php, use different templates, remove all the code from the php files and it still pulls content coming form the single-optinpage.php.
What should I do next?
Graham Kite
Courses Plus Student 8,123 PointsGraham Kite
Courses Plus Student 8,123 PointsI have changed the header code for one I know was working. So there must be a bug somewhere in the theme.
I am seeing a sidebar optin that is generated by a custom post type.. Not sure if that could be causing the issue.
How/where do I go about trying to debug and fix?