mjkane

Mike,
Please ignore my previous post about the membership-form page. I just realized that I must make the same style change for each instance of the form, i.e. the edit is not a global one. In hindsight this makes perfect sense.

Thanks again for all your help.
Michael

Mike,

Thanks for the reply. I did see that option in the Styles tab, but it did not seem to take effect. I went back set the Clear DIV to none and all is good with the Contacts page using this form.

But…
I am using the form on this page as well, https://www.caluwild.org/membership-form and for some reason the Clear DIV setting of none is not working, it persists as Clear DIV: both. Any ideas?

Many thanks,
Michael

The link is to the contacts page for https://www.caluwild.org/contacts, the form should appear just below the Caluwild Advisory Board. Upon inspecting the page, I found the clear:both div style that is causing this unnecessary spacing.

Thank you.
Michael

Hey mjkane, in what file did you change the type? archives.php?

Matius,
I put it in my sidebar3.php file which is where my left side bar content is located. Hope this helps.

Esmi,
Simplistik suggested this reset code after the loop and it worked.
<?php wp_reset_query(); ?>

Thanks for your help as well.

Thanks so much Simplistik, putting the reset code after “the loop” did the trick!
Michael

Esmi,
Thanks for the link. I have read through everything and am still a bit confused. This reference seems to be addressing multiple loops for organizing/retrieving the content of posts. My issue is that the content of a static page is being overwritten by the content of a post. If I’m missing something perhaps you could direct me to a more specific reference.

Thanks.
Michael

Great, thank you. I will try coding that way.

Now that the page is opening, the code seems to be faulty. My desire is to have in the sidebar3 of the home page (index.php) an excerpt of the current newsletter with the name as a link to its post page in its entirety. Now the link is gone and my home page maincontent is the current newsletter post, not the text that is written on the home page.

Here’s the code, a bit altered from before reflecting my attempts to accomplish the task above.

Thanks again for all your help.

<div id="sidebar3">
    <div id="nav">
        <ul>
		  <?php wp_list_pages("title_li=&exclude=12,16,21,23,339"); ?>
		</ul>
	</div>
	<?php if ( is_single() ): ?>

	<h2>Past Newsletters</h2>
	<?php wp_get_archives('type=postbypost'); ?>

    <?php elseif ( is_page('home') ): ?>
	<h2>Latest Newsletter</h2>
	<?php query_posts('showposts=1'); ?>

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

		<div <?php post_class() ?> id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>">
			<h2><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>"<?php the_title(); ?></a></h2>
			<?php the_excerpt(); ?>
		</div>

		<?php endwhile; ?>
	<?php endif; ?>

    <?php elseif ( is_page('membership') ): ?>
		<h2>Membership Form</h2>
		<a href='https://www.mywebsite.com/wpcaluwild/?page_id=16'>Please take a minute to join us by filling out our membership form.</a>
	<?php endif; ?>
</div>

Simplistik You Da Man! That worked. So I can learn from this, what do you mean by “wordpress” style?

Thanks again so much!
Michael

Still a no go. Made the changes adding <?php endwhile; ?> and <?php endif; ?> statements, yielding the same parse error, unexpected $end;

<div id="sidebar3">
    	<div id="nav">

<ul>
		  <?php wp_list_pages("title_li=&exclude=12,16,23,339");?>
		</ul>
	</div>
	<?php if (is_single()) {
	echo "<h2>Past Newsletters</h2>";
	wp_get_archives('type=postbypost');
	}
	elseif (is_page('home')) {
		echo "<h2>Latest Newsletter</h2>"; ?>
		<?php query_posts('showposts=1'); ?>
		<?php if (have_posts()) : ?>
		<?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>

		<div <?php post_class() ?> id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>">
			<h2><a>"<?php the_title(); ?>"</a></h2>
			<p><?php the_time('F jS, Y') ?> </p>
			<?php the_excerpt(); ?>
		</div>
		<?php endwhile; ?>
		<?php endif; ?>
	}

	elseif
		(is_page('membership')) {
		echo "<h2>Membership Form</h2>";
		echo "<a href='https://www.mywebsite.com/wpcaluwild/?page_id=16'>Please take a minute to join us by filling out our membership form.</a>"; ?>
		}
		</div>

Okay many thanks for the advice. But now I have spent an hour with this issue,Parse error: syntax error, unexpected $end in line 39 that is the closing div </div>.

Again here’s all the code:

<div id="sidebar3">
    	<div id="nav">
		<ul>
		  <?php wp_list_pages("title_li=&exclude=12,16,23,339");?>
		</ul>
	</div>
	<?php if (is_single()) {
	echo "<h2>Past Newsletters</h2>";
	wp_get_archives('type=postbypost');
	}
	elseif (is_page('home')) {
		echo "<h2>Latest Newsletter</h2>"; ?>
		<?php query_posts('showposts=1'); ?>
		<?php if (have_posts()) : ?>
		<?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>

		<div <?php post_class() ?> id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>">
			<h2><a>"<?php the_title(); ?>"</a></h2>
			<p><?php the_time('F jS, Y') ?> </p>
			<?php the_excerpt(); ?>
		</div>

	<?php endwhile; ?>
	}

	elseif
		(is_page('membership')) {
		echo "<h2>Membership Form</h2>";
		echo "<a href='https://www.michaeljkane.com/wpcaluwild/?page_id=16'>Please take a minute to join us by filling out our membership form.</a>";
		}
		<?php endif; ?>
		</div>

I double checked for “empty” spaces but I can’t seem to shake the unexpected $end error.

Oh before I forget many thanks to simplistik for the very fast response earlier.

I figured it out. I had been using wp_get_archives(); or wp_get_archives(‘postbypost’); both listed the archives. But when I added ‘type=postbypost’ the urls worked properly.

Maybe this will help others.

Thanks Jessn.