Matt

I’ve found the answer!

I was using custom post types and had to use wp_query with arguments to call the posts in the page.

The new code is here but I now have a new set of problems outlined in this forum post!

It’s never ending but i’m learning loads thanks to people like you Calvin. Thank you so much!

Resolved!

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!!

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?

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

Sure no problem, here it is.

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?

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

This Text Displays
			<?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

Hi Calvin,

I’m good thanks, hope you are too!

Many thanks for your quick reply!!!

This is the url for the category that I want to display:

https://localhost:8888/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?action=edit&taxonomy=category&tag_ID=5&post_type=blog

What are your thoughts?

I fixed the problem by creating an htaccess file with the following code:

# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>
# END WordPress

Hi there. I definitely have the database selected but still getting the same error message.

The error message is this:

#1146 – Table ‘focus_one.wp_options’ doesn’t exist

Hi there, i’m getting this problem too and running appropriate SQL but i’m getting an error saying that wp-options doesn’t exist, any ideas?

Great tutorial by the way, it was very well explained and helped me no end. If I can fix this final little snag i’ll be the happiest man alive!

Many thanks!

Hi Sloyer,

i’ve tried this and no luck. All the plugins weren’t activated and it looks like some of the widgets are missing too.

Should I have to reconfigure all the widgets or should they all be in place already as I copied over a fully functioning site?

Hi Topher, I made a backup of the database from the original site and imported it into the database for the local site. I can see all the tables in PHPMyAdmin but am at a loss as to why this is happening.