Blog Posts page not showing Title or small text WordPress

Michael Fields answers:

Sara,
I think that I understand what you are trying to accomplish here, but I feel that you are going about it the wrong way. If I understand you issue, You would like this "page" (http://pamfa.com/pamfa-wp/?page_id=13) to display a group of related posts. If this is what you are after, then I would suggest that you use [[LINK href="http://codex.wordpress.org/Category_Templates"]]category templates[[/LINK]].

Categories are one of WordPress' built-in features which enable you to organize, display and navigate multiple posts with ease.

If for some reason, you <strong>must</strong> use pages for this functionality you will need to create a [[LINK href="http://codex.wordpress.org/Pages#Page_Templates"]]custom page template[[/LINK]] for the page that you wish to have a group of pasts listed on.

The following code provides you with a custom page template which should accomplish your needs. I have commented the code where you will want to modify it for use on your site:

<?php
/*
Template Name: Custom Page Template
*/

get_header();
?>
<div id="content" class="narrowcolumn">
<?php

/* First we will get the information for the current "page"
----------------------------------------------------------------- */
if ( have_posts() ) :
while ( have_posts() ) :
the_post();
print "\n\t\t" . '<div class="post" id="post-' . get_the_id() . '">';
the_title( '<h2>', '</h2>' );

print "\n\t\t\t" . '<div class="entry">';
the_content('<p class="serif">Read the rest of this page &raquo;</p>');
wp_link_pages(array('before' => '<p><strong>Pages:</strong> ', 'after' => '</p>', 'next_or_number' => 'number'));
print "\n\t\t\t" . '</div>';
print "\n\t\t" . '</div>';
endwhile;
endif;
edit_post_link('Edit this entry.', '<p>', '</p>');


/* Next we will create a custom query which returns post from a
certain category. you can change the values insite the
function get_posts() to whatever you like. Please see the codex
for options: http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/get_posts
----------------------------------------------------------------- */

$myposts = get_posts( 'numberposts=5&category=52' );
if( $myposts ) {
foreach( $myposts as $post ) {
setup_postdata( $post );
$more = 0;
$class = 'class="' . join( ' ', get_post_class( $class, $post_id ) ) . '"';
print "\n\t\t" . '<div ' . $class . ' id="post-' . get_the_ID() . '">';
print "\n\t\t" . '<h2><a href="' . get_permalink() . '" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to ' . esc_attr( the_title( '', '', false ) ) . '">' . the_title( '', '', false ) . '</a></h2>';
print "\n\t\t" . '<small>' . get_the_time('F jS, Y') . '</small>';
print "\n\t\t" . '<div class="entry">';
the_content( 'Read the rest of this entry &raquo;' );
print "\n\t\t" . '</div>';
?><p class="postmetadata"><?php the_tags('Tags: ', ', ', '<br />'); ?> Posted in <?php the_category(', ') ?> | <?php edit_post_link('Edit', '', ' | '); ?> <?php comments_popup_link('No Comments »', '1 Comment »', '% Comments »'); ?></p><?php
print "\n\t\t" . '</div>';
}
}
print "\n\t\t\t" . '</div><!--END NARROWCOLUMN-->';

get_sidebar();
get_footer();
?>


Copy this code and save as a new php document. You will want to change the text at the top:

/*
Template Name: Custom Page Template
*/

to something more appropriate for you site like "T-shirts" or "pants".

Upload the new php document to your current themes directory, log into WordPress, navigate to the page that you wish to edit and apply this new page template to it.

Please note: Although the page solution <em>does</em> work, category templates allow you a much better front-end experience.

Hope this helps!
-Mike

Brandon Dove answers:

I tried downloading the theme files, but all I get is a PHP error. Can you link to a zip file?

Abu Yervant answers:

Would like to help you but I'm unable to view the blog ...

It gave me the 501 Error ..

Japh answers:

Hi Sara,

I would love to help you, however, the link you provided to download the theme files does not work for me.

If I could get a copy of the theme as you're using it now, I'm fairly certain I could help you.

Good luck! :)