unformatted text on main blog page

Site url?

https://www.boisephotography.net/blog

I’m seeing a fully formatted page in Firefox 3 and IE8 , so I’m assuming that you’re referring to the content of the posts themselves on the front page.

Have a look at:

https://quirm.net/2009/06/16/missing-post-images-on-wordpress-front-page/

Although the article refers to missing images, I think it’s what is also causing your missing links and lack of formatting.

Yeh I was referring to the front page posts. Thanks for the article is was useful. I will add a excerpt next time I make a post.

Thanks.

So I just tried to add an excerpt to a post and the theme ignores the excerpt completely. I even tried typing in something totally different and it ignores that field completely. I am not sure if its actually using the excerpt feature when it makes it own because it brings over more than 55 words. It will bring over my entire post to the main page but its totally unformatted.

Any other ideas? Or what file do I need to look at to figure out whats up with theme.

Have a look in index.php for the_excerpt or the_content. Failing that, drop of a copy of index.php into the WordPress pastebin and perhaps someone can figure out what’s going on.

So I have only two instances of the the_content in the theme one is in includes/single-blog.php

<!--Begin Post-->

  <?php $thumb = get_post_meta($post->ID, 'Thumbnail', $single = true); ?>
    <div class="post-wrapper">
        <h1 class="post-title" style="margin-top: 0px;"><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title(); ?>">
            <?php the_title(); ?>
            </a></h1>
        <div class="post-info" style="margin-bottom: 15px;">Posted by
           <?php the_author_posts_link(); ?>
            on
            <?php the_time('M jS, Y') ?>
            | <a href="#respond" title="<?php _e("Leave a comment"); ?>">
            <?php comments_number('no comments','one comment','% comments'); ?>
            </a></div>
        <div style="clear: both;"></div>
<?php if($thumb !== '') { ?>
<a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title(); ?>"><img src="<?php bloginfo('stylesheet_directory'); ?>/timthumb.php?src=<?php echo $thumb; ?>&h=200&w=200&zc=1" alt="<?php if($thumb_alt !== '') { echo $thumb_alt; } else { echo the_title(); } ?>"  class="blogthumbnail" /></a>
<?php } else { echo ''; } ?>
        <?php the_content(); ?>
        <div class="comments-wrapper">
        <?php comments_template(); ?>
        </div>
        <img src="<?php bloginfo('stylesheet_directory'); ?>/images/comments-bottom-<?php echo $artsee_ephoto_color; ?>.gif" alt="comments-bottom" style="float: left;" />
        <?php endwhile; ?>
    </div>
    <?php else : ?>
    <!--If no results are found-->

The other instance is in the main theme folder called page.php

<?php get_header(); ?>

<div id="container2">
<div id="left-div2">
    <?php if (have_posts()) : ?>
    <?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
    <!--Start Post-->
    <div class="post-wrapper">
        <h1 class="post-title2"><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title(); ?>">
            <?php the_title(); ?>
            </a></h1>
        <div style="clear: both;"></div>
        <?php the_content(); ?>
    </div>
    <?php endwhile; ?>
    <!--End Post-->
    <?php else : ?>
    <!--If no results are found-->
    <h1>No Results Found</h1>
    <p>The page you requested could not be found. Try refining your search, or use the navigation above to locate the post.</p>
    <!--End if no results are found-->
    <?php endif; ?>
</div>

There is nothing in any other file with the_content in the theme and none with the_excerpt.

You have a WordPress Page called “Blog” yes? Does it use a custom template (check by editing that page and looking in the Template dropdown under Attributes)?

Nope there is no wordpress page called blog under pages. The setup for the blog page is actually controlled through the themes control panel under appearance. Under page navigation in this panel I have the option to turn on and off the blog link and change the what the blog page tab says and thats about it.

Ah! Looks like that theme does use a custom template of sorts. What php files do you have in the theme apart from index.php, page.php and functions.php?

Files in the root directory of the theme

404.php
category.php
comments.php
comments-popup.php
footer.php
header.php
home.php
searchform.php
sidebar.php
simple_recent_comments.php
single.php
timthumb.php

In the /include section of the theme I have these.

about.php
about-home.php
ads.php
blogcat.php
default.php
deafaultcat.php
defaultindex.php
featured.php
popular.php
single-blog.php
single-photo.php
thumbnail.php

Likely candidates:
blogcat.php
default.php
deafaultcat.php
defaultindex.php
single-blog.php

If home.php references any of these, drop them from the list of likely suspects.

So I checked home.php and none of them referenced any of the php’s that you listed. Have any idea what I might be looking for in those file to figure out why I have no formatting on the main page and then how to fix it?

Ok so through some trial and error I found which file controls that page. Its the blogcat.php. I made some changes to it but I didn’t get what I was looking for.

Here’s the code.

<span class="current-category">
<?php single_cat_title('Currently Browsing: ', 'display'); ?>
</span>

<?php if (have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : the_post();
  if( $post->ID == $do_not_duplicate ) continue; update_post_caches($posts); ?>

  <?php $thumb = get_post_meta($post->ID, 'Thumbnail', $single = true); ?>
    <div class="post-wrapper" style="margin-bottom: 15px;">
        <h1 class="post-title" style="margin-top: 0px"><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title(); ?>">
            <?php the_title(); ?>
            </a></h1>
        <div class="post-info" style="margin-bottom: 15px;">Posted by
           <?php the_author_posts_link(); ?>
            on
            <?php the_time('M jS, Y') ?>
            | <a href="#respond" title="<?php _e("Leave a comment"); ?>">
            <?php comments_number('no responses','one response','% responses'); ?>
            </a></div>
        <div style="clear: both;"></div>

        <?php if($thumb !== '') { ?>
<a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title(); ?>"><img src="<?php bloginfo('stylesheet_directory'); ?>/timthumb.php?src=<?php echo $thumb; ?>&h=200&w=200&zc=1" alt="<?php if($thumb_alt !== '') { echo $thumb_alt; } else { echo the_title(); } ?>"  class="blogthumbnail" /></a>
<?php } else { echo ''; } ?>

        <?php the_content_limit(600); ?>

    </div>
            <div style="clear: both;"></div>
        <?php endwhile; ?>

<div style="clear: both;"></div>
<?php if(function_exists('wp_pagenavi')) { wp_pagenavi(); }
else { ?>
<p class="pagination">
    <?php next_posts_link('&laquo; Previous Entries') ?>
    <?php previous_posts_link('Next Entries &raquo;') ?>
</p>
<?php } ?>
<?php else : ?>
<!--If no results are found-->
<h1>No Results Found</h1>
<p>The page you requested could not be found. Try refining your search, or use the navigation above to locate the post.</p>
<!--End if no results are found-->
<?php endif; ?>

I tried replacing the line <?php the_content_limit(600); ?> with the_content and my results were not what I wanted. When I made this change the text under the titles disappeared. Any ideas?

do u find what u were looking for !!!

i had exact same problem