I screwed up my header. Now I have two. Looks awful

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  • alains

    (@alains)

    Hi!

    As I see you have code that is supposed to be in BODY of document in HEAD tag.

    First try disabling the plugin & reload.

    Kafkaesqui

    (@kafkaesqui)

    I’d imagine it’s because the *header* portion of your blog, the ‘sitetitle’ and ‘menu’ divs, is being duplicated in the <head> section.

    For that plugin to work correctly, you should be putting this in the <head> portion of your template(s):

    <?php wp_head(); ?>

    It appears you stuck in get_header(), which for that particular theme would include the divs mentioned above (they reside in header.php).

    Thread Starter shutterbug

    (@shutterbug)

    So, now what? I tried disabling the plugin and reenabling. Nothing. I entered the <?php wp_head(); ?> in the Page Template right under <head>.

    Am I to delete ‘sitetitle’ in the Page Template? I’m so confused.

    Am I supposed to delete <get_header()>? I just have to get rid of that additional header across the top. Where did that come from, I wonder?

    If I just uninstall the plugin, will it make any difference? I just want my blog to look nice again.

    Kafkaesqui

    (@kafkaesqui)

    This:

    <?php get_header(); ?>

    should not reside in the <head> section of your templates. It should only appear in the <body>.

    (Note for future readers: this relates to the theme Andreas 04, which has its own ideas of what goes in header.php).

    alains

    (@alains)

    Try to disable the plugin and reload the page.

    Kafkaesqui

    (@kafkaesqui)

    “Try to disable the plugin and reload the page.“

    That will not fix this problem.

    Thread Starter shutterbug

    (@shutterbug)

    Oh, I see. Well, I’m more confused now. On this website
    ‘https://guff.szub.net/2005/09/01/head-meta-description/&#8217; he said to put it in the Head tags.

    I did as you said and moved it to the body tags but I still have the double headings.

    Maybe my template is just not compatible with this plugin, do you think?

    vkaryl

    (@vkaryl)

    This is two totally separate problems. For right now, disable the plugin and leave it disabled until you fix your layout problem.

    Then remove this <?php get_header(); ?> from the <head> section of your header file. It doesn’t go there. Take a look at that point to see where you are and then post back.

    Kafkaesqui

    (@kafkaesqui)

    What *should* be in the <head> of your templates:

    <?php wp_head(); ?>

    What you placed in the <head> of your templates:

    <?php get_header(); ?>

    See the difference?

    Thread Starter shutterbug

    (@shutterbug)

    Deactivated plugin. <?php get_header(); ?> wasn’t in the Header. It was in the Body section of the page template. Still have the same problem.

    [Moderated: template code snipped]

    Does that help at all?

    I just clicked on About and Contact on the Header and got this error message:
    Fatal error: Call to undefined function: head_meta_desc() in /home/cecon46/public_html/canwetalk/wp-content/themes/andreas04-10/page.php on line 5

    All of them gave the same error message.

    Kafkaesqui

    (@kafkaesqui)

    “This is the Page Template:“

    What about the theme’s index.php?

    vkaryl

    (@vkaryl)

    Geesh. Should have posted all that to https://wordpress.pastebin.ca prob’ly…. in any case, it looks pretty borked to me (though I don’t use Andreas’s themes so could just not know how they work….)

    If this were me, at this point I’d upload a fresh copy of all the files in the theme folder and start over.

    Thread Starter shutterbug

    (@shutterbug)

    Here’s the Index.
    <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN" "https://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd">
    <html xmlns="https://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en">
    <head>
    <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
    <meta name="description" content="<?php bloginfo('description'); ?>" />
    <meta name="author" content="WordPress adaptation: Tara Aukerman / Original design: Andreas Viklund - https://andreasviklund.com/" />
    <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="<?php bloginfo('template_directory'); ?>/style.css" />
    <title><?php bloginfo('name'); ?></title>
    <META name="verify-v1" content="7oycLsOAcX1aSppJoydGANPg1yRe86cLcWhvoW9v55k=" />
    <div id="sitetitle">
    <h1><a href="<?php bloginfo('url'); ?>"><?php bloginfo('name'); ?></a></h1>
    <h2><?php bloginfo('description'); ?></h2>
    </div>
    <div id="menu">
    <ul>
    <li><a href="<?php bloginfo('url'); ?>">home</a></li>
    <?php wp_list_pages('title_li='); ?>
    </ul>
    </div>
    </head>
    <body>
    <div id="container">
    <?php get_header(); ?>

    [Moderated: snip]

    Kafkaesqui

    (@kafkaesqui)

    Ahem…

    <META name="verify-v1" content="7oycLsOAcX1aSppJoydGANPg1yRe86cLcWhvoW9v55k=" />
    <div id="sitetitle">
    <h1><a href="<?php bloginfo('url'); ?>"><?php bloginfo('name'); ?></a></h1>
    <h2><?php bloginfo('description'); ?></h2>
    </div>
    <div id="menu">
    <ul>
    <li><a href="<?php bloginfo('url'); ?>">home</a></li>
    <?php wp_list_pages('title_li='); ?>
    </ul>
    </div>
    </head>
    <body>

    Ok, so the contents of header.php were copied in…

    Thread Starter shutterbug

    (@shutterbug)

    Oh, is that bad? The template came like that. I didn’t do it.

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