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Thanks, Tom. Guess that Udemy course is outdated.

If you are using a static page as your front page, 2017 will not use templates. Learned this the hard way. At some point I was able to work around this but it wasn’t worth the trouble. Eventually, I had to drop 2017 altogether. BTW, this was my experience. Maybe someone can enlighten us both.

Pardon my French but, are you guys inserting the code in a post/page or in a Page Template?

Did you add the content using the WP editor or did you add it to a template. If the latter, it will not show up because 2017 uses front-page.php for the static page. Hope this helps.

Thanks, t-p.

Thanks for your response, stilman. In fact, I’m working with a child theme. The problem is I can’t load my templates in “front-page.php”. Take care!

I’m back, sooner than expected. The weather is nasty. Anyway.

It seems that, at some point, I messed up the “global.js” file in the parent. Since I overwrote it, can’t tell how. I’m using a new copy from a clean 2017 file and the problem is gone.

Once again, thanks!

Thanks, CJ, for your prompt advice.

You made me look at things a little different (kidding; a lot). I re-installed 2017 and now, when the parent theme is activated, the top menu sits where it was designed to. So, I guess that the problem is the child theme.

Looking over the “js” files, I found a file on the child’s root called “child-theme-js.js” that is not present in the parent. I got that morsel from the page “Five Excellent Ways To Hack …“, where I recall having implemented hacks 2 and 3. Following my technical wisdom, I deleted the file “child-theme-js.js” and the following piece of code from the child’s “functions.php” file.

// Enqueue child them js file
add_action( 'wp_enqueue_scripts', 'child_theme_js' );
function child_theme_js() {
  wp_enqueue_script( 'child-theme-js' , get_stylesheet_directory_uri() . '/child-theme-js.js' , array( 'twentyseventeen-global' ) , false , true );
}

In spite of doing the above, the top menu continues to stay on top. Except for the above deleted function, I cleared the whole “functions.php” file and re-copied each function individually, testing along the way for errors. None where detected.

I have to take some time to fix my car. I will then deactivate all my plugins looking for culprits. Will keep you posted. Until then, the best to you and yours!

OK. Here I go.

I’m running WordPress (WP) locally on XAAMP. The local “site” is configured for multisite. When importing the widgets file, I get what follows:

Homepage 	
shapely_home_parallax 	We Change Everything WordPress 	Site does not support widget
shapely_home_parallax 	SEO Friendly 	Site does not support widget
shapely_home_parallax 	Portfolio Section 	Site does not support widget
shapely_home_parallax 	Small Parallax Section 	Site does not support widget
shapely_home_parallax 	Limitless Options 	Site does not support widget
shapely_home_portfolio 	Our Latest Projects 	Site does not support widget
shapely_home_testimonial 	What Our Customers Say 	Site does not support widget
shapely_home_clients 	Our Partners 	Site does not support widget
shapely_home_cfa 	Do you like this awesome WordPress theme? 	Site does not support widget

Any guidance appreciated. Thanks!

My thanks to Denzel Chia and catacaustic for their prompt and accurate help.

catacaustic’s example did the job. The best to you guys. Thanks again!

Thanks, Steve. Sorry I took so long to apologize.

UI changed my code to the following:

                    <?php>
                    if ( is_page_template( 'page-templates/page-blog.php' ) ) {
                        <h4>Blog</h4>
                    } elseif ( is_page_template( 'page-templates/page-news.php' ) ) {
                        <h4>Blog</h4>
                    } else {
                    <h4><?php the_title(); ?></h4>
                    }
                    ?>

However, my site freezes when I use it. Maybe you can help me with that. I’d appreciate it very much. The best to you and yours!

Thanks, Liam. Solved the problem by not choosing a blog page in Settings == Reading. My custom template with the loop then delivers what I wanted. The best to you and yours!

To: tabassumnaaz
See below.
To: Liam Dempsey
Your analysis is correct, I was wrong. The template drop down disappears when the page you create will end up displaying the posts; which is what I tried to do. Saved the template as index.php and page.php and now my posts are displayed in the template format I wanted. The only problem that remains is that my original templates both use custom fields and I loose that capability if the site uses index/page.php for posts. I then edited my original template by adding at its head “<?php /* * WP Post Template: Page for Blog */?>” and placed it in the site’s root, but I can’t tell if that makes any difference. Any further help is appreciated. Thanks!

Diving right into them Thanks, bdbrown!

To Clarion Technologies
This worked like a charm. Can’t tell you enough how much I appreciate the guidance. The best to you, guys!