A Couple Glitches With Template I Can’t Figure Out

  • I’m developing a new TV blog called My TV Thoughts.com. I want it to be perfect before I launch it and there are just a couple things that are bugging me that I cannot figure out for the life of me.

    1.) The categories do not work. Everytime you click on a certain category it still brings up ALL the posts. What do I have wrong?

    2.) I like to put more information in my posts “after the jump” and use the <!–more–>, but no link shows up. The link that you see now under the post’s title is a link that I put there, but it is on every page and not ever page as any information after the jump. Currently only CBS does which is the last post on the homepage.

    3.) Finally, the comment links are not working. CBS (last post on the homepage on the bottom) is the only post that has a comment. It says that it has one comment but it does not link to the comments. I’ve never had a template that doesn’t link to comments before.

    Can anyone help me out with any of these? I’d really appreciate it. Thank you!

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  • Everytime you click on a certain category it still brings up ALL the posts. What do I have wrong?

    That definitely shouldn’t be happening. Are you quite sure that you’re filing the posts under individual categories and not under all categories? Some themes may only show the first x categories that a given post is filed under, so the visually displayed category list at the foot of each post isn’t 100% reliable.

    Could be a theme problem. Try activating the default theme temporarily and see if the same problem occurs using that.

    I like to put more information in my posts “after the jump” and use the <!–more–>, but no link shows up.

    Again, that sounds like a theme problem. Check that the template’s index.php file uses the WP template tag the_content(). If it does, post that line here. It might help to highlight the root cause.

    Finally, the comment links are not working

    Again – looks like your theme may be at fault…

    You’ve also got quite few validation errors. Nothing majorly serious apart from a whole list of link urls that are malformed (an unwanted \ at the end of each of them) but it would probably help if you sorted some of those out. They could bite back later on.

    Thread Starter kirschner2589

    (@kirschner2589)

    Thanks esmi for your response.

    I figured it was the theme because I’ve never had problems like these before with any other blog and when I first installed the theme there were some major glitches…but I just really like the theme so I thought I’d try and make it work.

    I was going through the validation errors link you made and I’m trying to get a grip on where the errors are actually located.

    For example:

    Line 533, character 52:
    … rdpress.willysboys.com/?p=51″\”>ABC <img src=”https://wor …
    ^
    Error: character \ not allowed in attribute specification list (possibly caused by a missing quotation mark ending a previous attribute value)

    How do I find this? LIne 533 means nothing to me when I have several different files. I don’t know where to start. This looks to be why perhaps the categories are not working, the slash and the extra quote but again I can’t find this anywhere.

    Again I really do appreciate your help. Thanks!

    Line 533, character 52:
    … rdpress.willysboys.com/?p=51″\”>ABC <img src=”https://wor …
    ^
    Error: character \ not allowed in attribute specification list (possibly caused by a missing quotation mark ending a previous attribute value)

    It’s your Highest Rated links in the sidebar. They all have an unwanted \ at the end. If you’re using a plugin to list these, it could be an problem with the plugin’s generated code.

    Thread Starter kirschner2589

    (@kirschner2589)

    Oh…I thought I might have had a winner of why the cats aren’t working. I emailed the person who created the theme directly but they have yet to reply.

    Thanks again for all your help!

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