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What specific changes are you doing?

I’ve checked on Chrome and Firefox and they both load in <5s for me, which is fine. Have you disabled caching on your browsers? Are you logged as admin on those browsers? Both these situations could slow your speed down.

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I’ve checked in Safari at work, there’s no header issue. Can you maybe post a link to a screenshot showing the problem? Maybe we misunderstood your problem. Other than that I can’t see what would be at fault here.

I’ve checked in Chrome, IE7-9 and I can’t recreate your problem as i don’t see the header being cut. Can you tell me specifically what browser this is happening in?

It’s not that easy, you’re attempting to pull in the whole WordPress installation in session. I have no idea what files you’d need to include. You’re best bet is to save these files within the WordPress scope so you can call their functions directly.

Can you post a URL to your site?

@esmi good idea, thanks for pointing that out. Didn’t realize he was editing the default theme.

Displaying featured image.

Featured images are a one-to-one relationship so the featured image displayed will be the given post.

Using header and footer (and side widgets too i suppose) means two things: you need a mean to include them in your main file and the libraries loaded up in order to call the WP functions correctly. For your page to call the WP function your file needs to remain in the scope of WordPress as far as I know, so you’re very limited in terms of which directory to store them in.

As far as including the files themselves, you can simply perform a PHP include on them.

Have you created your custom comment template?

Can you send us a link to your website?

Also, what did you update yesterday? The WordPress installation?

You might want to verify your permalink structure through Settings>Permalink. You mentionned that you are retrieving your posts through your categories, can you hit them directly through their permalinks.

Using conditional tags, you can do the following in your header:

<?php if(!is_front_page()): ?>
<!-- code you want exclusively for the front page -->
<?php else: ?>
<!-- code you want on all other pages not the front page -->
<?php endif;?>

<!-- code you want for all pages -->

If it wasn’t for the fact that you can’t recreate this in your sandbox, i would have left it at unique browser behaviors.

So you experience this problem in the editor, so have you installed any plugins that modified your editor page? Also, try temporarily erasing your functions.php.

Can you recreate it yourself on your live site? Or are you just taking them on their own words?