Thank you – this helped to solve part of the problem! I modified index.php for my WPFolio theme, and the title and date are now displaying. I was able to find the appropriate code in the single.php file:
This is what I added:
<h2 class="post-title"><a title="'<?php the_title_attribute(); ?>', posted on <?php the_time('F jS, Y') ?>" href="<?php the_permalink() ?>"><?php the_title(''); ?></a></h2>
<h4><?php the_date('F d, Y', '', ''); ?></h4>
However, the title and date still don’t display in the single post view. Even though the single.php file contains the same above quoted code, and so do the archive.php and archives.php (for some reason I have two archive files-?). I am unsure which of the three files are called up for the single page view, so I don’t know where to start looking for the bug.
I apologize, this theme seems to be a bit messy. This is the first time I touched the code, so I don;t know how this happened.