Content within the loop is not displaying

Are there any errors showing on your page? On line 6 of your snippet, you’ve forgotten the “while” at the start of the line:

while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); ?>

Oops sorry I deleted that by mistake. This is the code that isn’t working.

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			<?php if (have_posts() ) :
			?>
			<h2 class="post-title">This text isn't displaying</h2>
			<?php
			while (have_posts() ) : the_post(); ?>
			<?php endwhile; else : ?>
				<p><?php _e( 'Sorry, no posts matched your criteria.' ); ?></p>
			<?php endif; ?>
		This Text Displays

Can you post the entirety of the code to Pastebin and post the link here? Can you enable debugging and see if any errors appear?

Really sorry Stephen, you’re going to have to be patient with me as i’m a total noob.

I’ve enabled debugging and there doesn’t seem to be any errors that I can see.

The code is pretty much it other than some standard HTML. as I was following this tutorial and hit a problem at the first hurdle.

That code above is just in a content div and there’s no other php on the archive.php page other that get get_header and get_footer functions.

Am I missing something silly?

Can you post it to Pastebin anyway?

Sure no problem, here it is.

Do you have posts in the archive page that you’re displaying? Do your posts appear if you visit your home page?

I have the standard ‘Hello World’ post still and a couple of posts as a custom post type called “blog”

Custom post types are an interesting beast sometimes. Does it work if you make a copy of your archive.php and name it archive-blog.php? Alternatively, does it work if you edit archive.php and use this code instead:

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<?php $args = array( 'post_type' => 'blog', 'posts_per_page' => 5 ); ?>
<?php $loop = new WP_Query( $args );
<?php if ( $loop->have_posts() ) : ?>
  <?php while ( $loop->have_posts() ) : $loop->the_post(); ?>
    <h2 class="post-title">Post Title</h2>
  <?php endwhile; else : ?>
    <p><?php _e( 'Sorry, no posts matched your criteria.' ); ?></p>
<?php endif; ?>
This Text Displays

Hmm, it seems that using archive-blog.php defaults the page back to index.php and using the code above parses and error on line 37 which is this one

<?php if ( $loop->have_posts() ) : ?>

I accidentally left off the closing PHP tag on the previous line, but it doesn’t matter because that code won’t do what you want, anyway. You should revert your archive.php back to what you had before.

When you created your custom post type, did you pass 'has_archive' => true to register_post_type()? When you created the file archive-blog.php, did you go to Dashboard > Settings > Permalinks and hit the “Save Changes” button to rebuild your rewrite rules? Can you post the code you used to create your custom post type?

Ok thanks, i’ve reverted the page back to how it was.

I created the custom post type using this plugin. Would this have been taken care of when installing or do I need to check that somewhere?

I’ve found the answer!!

I had to create a wp_query with the arguments for the custom post type and apply that to the loop.

Here is the updated code

<?php
       $args = array( 'post_type' => 'blog','cat'=> 5,);
       $myblogPosts = new WP_Query($args);

       if ($myblogPosts->have_posts() ) :
       ?>
           <h2 class="post-title">This text now displays!!</h2>
       <?php
       while ($myblogPosts->have_posts() ) : $myblogPosts->the_post(); ?>
           <div><?php the_title(); the_content(); ?>
       <?php endwhile; else : ?>
       <p><?php _e( 'Sorry, no posts matched your criteria.' ); ?></p>
       <?php endif; ?>

Stephen – thank you so much for your help!! I’m learning all the time with the great support from the forums!!

Resolved!