Page Titles don’t come out on Pages

Open up your page template, usually page.php, and put this in above the_content:

<h2><?php the_title(); ?></h2>

That will put the page titles up.

Then do you have a category.php? If not, maybe an archive.php? You can use this code to echo the category name that you’re browsing:

<?php if (have_posts()) : ?>

		 <?php $post = $posts[0];  ?>
<?php /* If this is a category archive */ if (is_category()) { ?>
		<h2><?php echo single_cat_title(); ?></h2><br />

	 <?php /* If this is a monthly archive */ } elseif (is_month()) { ?>
		<h2>Monthly Archive of <?php the_time('F Y'); ?></h2>

		<?php } ?>

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

Jessn,

thanks, this took care of this. I contacted the company who created this theme and they answered like this:

“We appreciate your using our theme but as it is our resources are limited, we have to reserve our technical support for our ‘pro’ theme customers. I can take a quick look though:

“There is also a ‘theme option’ to turn WP page titles on.

when you click on a catagory; the landing catagory page doesn’t tell you what catagory your on. Same thing happens on archives
Our themes don’t include the category title on those pages. You can modify this quickly if you know how to edit theme files. Look in the _posts.php file and reference the wordpress support documentation/forum if you need guidance.”

There is no “theme option” to turn pages on or off on the pages. It amazes me how these theme developers create themes and want links back to their sites but can’t even answer elementry questions such as the above one I had, but someone else can who did not even develope the theme. It makes me wonder if I should even use this theme because the developer may not be qualified to handle future WordPress upgrades that may also have to be made on the theme itself to function properly along with future WP upgrades.

Thanks jessn for answering it. You seem to be more qualified then the company who made the Whitehouse theme by Pagelines.

It amazes me how these theme developers create themes and want links back to their sites but can’t even answer elementry questions such as the above one

Did you pay for the theme? If not, then you are asking someone to take time out of their working day to help you when they could be earning money. Theme developers need to eat too. Please bear this in mind when complaining about lack of support for free themes. Especially when it doesn’t cost you a penny to switch to another theme that you do approve of.

Did you pay for the theme? If not, then you are asking someone to take time out of their working day to help you when they could be earning money. Theme developers need to eat too. Please bear this in mind when complaining about lack of support for free themes. Especially when it doesn’t cost you a penny to switch to another theme that you do approve of.

You see.. I gree with you esmi.

Although it is a marketing tool to make you buy the theme.. it is not a proper work to offer a theme that it is not working, and then say.. pay for the pro version. This is the kind of things we see everyday. Imagine.. I offer you a theme, a free theme not working properly, and then when you ask I tell you to go for the pro.

I do not think this is going to work.. as I said from my point of view, it is a very poor use of marketing tools.

animal,

you hit it on the head on your comment. It amazes me how much you see this today on the web. This theme is flawed because when you create a page it doesn’t show the page title on the page. This is elementary theme developement and if you go for the Pro version you will most likely get more of the same of these elementary theme product issues.
I also discovered another issue with this Whitehouse Theme. The tag cloud widget does not seem to work too well. The tages (if you have a lot of them) will overflow into the footer area. Again, elementary issues which the developer can’t seem to straighten out, even with his recent upgrade. Maybe that’s why this theme is called the ‘White House’ theme because things don’t seem to be working too well just like in Washington.