Thor Brink

Could you paste the code that handles the shortcode?

The index.php in your wordpress root folder is the one executing WordPress, but that is not where you should be editing.
The file that is commonly acting as the ‘home page template’ is the index.php in your activated themes folder under ‘wp-content/themes/activated_theme_name’ (activated_theme_name is just to show you the path, it’s not the actual name).
More on how WordPress themes work is found in the Codex.

The first thing that comes to mind is that there is no code handling the shortcode. Is there a plugin that might have been deactivated?

You need to add the “cat” attribute to the query_posts argument array.
The updated could should be:

<ul>
	<?php query_posts(array('showposts' => 2, 'order' => 'dec', 'cat' => -4 )); while (have_posts()) { the_post(); ?>
	<li class="date"><?php the_time('F j, Y'); ?></li>
	<li class="title"><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></li>
	<?php } ?>
</ul>

The ‘-4’ means that the category with an ID of ‘4’ should be excluded.
More on this can be found in the WordPress Codex.

Hi.
When registering post-types there is a parameter which is called ‘has_archive’.
Set this to false to prevent archives from being enabled.
For more details on registering post-types: WordPress Codex

404 is a HTTP error code which means that the requested page doesn’t exist or can’t be found.

A similar issue seems to be reported here: https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/all-pages-lead-to-404-error?replies=16

Hi.
Try this:

• Target the submit button in css
• remove border
• insert image as background
• set display:block
• set width & height to the size of the image

You could either try to override the css rules of contact form 7 from your template stylesheet or edit the stylesheet in the contact form 7 folder.

Will you get it to show anything? Except for the title of the post? Will it enter the loop? I can see that you are missing an argument which can be good to have in the if-statement of the loop. “if ( have_posts() && is_single() )”. This makes sure that you have a single post fetched from the query.

Sorry, I guess you have to paste source code in the pastebin for it to show up.

Hi.

Source code of the template page which is used when the problem is occuring would be helpful.