How to populate blog with posts

(@brownday)

The template code for the template it has now is:

<?php
/*
Template Name: Blog
*/
?>

<?php get_header(); ?>

<?php if (get_option('ebusiness_categories') == 'on') : ?>
	<div id="categories"> <img src="<?php bloginfo('template_directory'); ?>/images/categories-left-<?php echo $ebusiness_color_scheme; ?>.gif" alt="line" style="float: left;" />
		<?php $menuClass = 'nav superfish';
		$menuID = 'nav2';
		$secondaryNav = '';
		if (function_exists('wp_nav_menu')) {
			$secondaryNav = wp_nav_menu( array( 'theme_location' => 'secondary-menu', 'container' => '', 'fallback_cb' => '', 'menu_class' => $menuClass, 'menu_id' => $menuID, 'echo' => false ) );
		};
		if ($secondaryNav == '') { ?>
			<ul id="<?php echo $menuID; ?>" class="<?php echo $menuClass; ?>">
				<?php show_categories_menu($menuClass,false); ?>
			</ul> <!-- end ul#nav -->
		<?php }
		else echo($secondaryNav); ?>
		<img src="<?php bloginfo('template_directory'); ?>/images/categories-right-<?php echo $ebusiness_color_scheme; ?>.gif" alt="line" style="float: left;" /> </div>
<?php endif; ?>

<div id="container">

    <div id="left-div">
        <?php if (get_option('ebusiness_full_post') == 'on') { ?>
        <?php include(TEMPLATEPATH . '/includes/blogstyle.php'); ?>
        <?php } else { include(TEMPLATEPATH . '/includes/defaultindex.php'); } ?>
    </div>
    <?php get_sidebar(); ?>
    <img src="<?php bloginfo('template_directory'); ?>/images/content-bg-<?php echo $ebusiness_color_scheme; ?>.gif" alt="line" style="float: left; margin-top: 15px;" /> </div>
<?php get_footer(); ?>
</body></html>

<?php
if (is_archive()) $post_number = get_option('ebusiness_archivenum_posts');
if (is_search()) $post_number = get_option('ebusiness_searchnum_posts');
if (is_tag()) $post_number = get_option('ebusiness_tagnum_posts');
if (is_category()) $post_number = get_option('ebusiness_catnum_posts');
if (is_home()) $post_number = get_option('ebusiness_blogstyle_homeposts');
global $query_string; query_posts($query_string . "&showposts=$post_number&paged=$paged");
?>

Am I missing something to have the posts populate it?

Thanks in advance!

(@tom_taylor_85)

Your missing the posts loop

<?php if ( have_posts() ) : while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); ?>
               <!-- do stuff ... -->
               <?php endwhile; ?>
     <?php endif; ?>

Thread Starter

(@brownday)

Where would I insert this between from the code I pasted?

(@tom_taylor_85)

It honestly all depends…what do you want as part of your loop? You want the title? excerpt? thumbnail? what?

Thread Starter

(@brownday)

I tried pasting them into several areas but can’t seem to get it work =/

Thread Starter

(@brownday)

I just want the entire post.. Title and date would be perfect

(@tom_taylor_85)

what do you want inside your loop is what i mean?

Thread Starter

(@brownday)

the title, author, thumbnail would be ideal.. i really don’t need an excerpt or anything like that

(@tom_taylor_85)

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

<!-- Thumbnail -->
<?php if( get_post_meta($post->ID, "thumbnail", true) ): ?>
<a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark"><img src="<?php echo get_post_meta($post->ID, "thumbnail", true); ?>" alt="<?php the_title(); ?>" width="85" border="1" style="float:left;margin:0px 10px 0px 0px;" /></a>

        <?php else: ?>

       <a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark"><img style="float:left;margin:0px 10px 0px 0px;"  src="<?php bloginfo('template_url'); ?>/images/thumbnail.png" alt="<?php the_title(); ?>" /></a>
        <?php endif; ?>
<!-- End Thumbnail -->

<!-- Title -->
 <b><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark">
       <?php the_title(); ?></b></a>
<!-- End Title -->

<!-- Date -->
<?php the_time('F jS, Y') ?
<!-- End Date -->

<?php endwhile; else: ?>
<p><?php _e('Sorry, no posts matched your criteria.'); ?></p>
<?php endif; ?>

Thats not the author, just thumbnail, title, date.

Try pasting after the get_header

(@tom_taylor_85)

Wait a second, I saw your parse error…..where are you pasting this code???

Thread Starter

(@brownday)

The blog looks like this after pasting the header code: https://bit.ly/9Y59ZL

Some progress, no? =)

(@tom_taylor_85)

hmmm….one sec

Where did you get this theme from?

Thread Starter

(@brownday)

https://www.elegantthemes.com

(@tom_taylor_85)

This is the simple loop I use, it doesn’t include font sizes or any div classes. It has the thumbnail, category, title, excerpt, edit link, and the date.

<?php if ( have_posts() ) : while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); ?>
	<?php if( get_post_meta($post->ID, "thumbnail", true) ): ?>
	<a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark"></a> 

    <?php endif; ?>
<td width="154"><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><img src="<?php echo get_post_meta($post->ID, "thumbnail", true); ?>" width="150" /></a></td>
<?php the_category(', ') ?>
	    <?php the_time('F jS, Y') ?>
      <a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark">
        <?php the_title(); ?></a>
<?php the_excerpt();?>
              <?php edit_post_link('Edit','',''); ?>
<?php endwhile; else: ?>
<p><?php _e('Sorry, no posts matched your criteria.'); ?>
  <?php endif; ?>

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