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patrick kellogg
7,579 Pointsafter copying the source from jumbotron into my theme's index.php file, I get a blank screen when i view my site.
any ideas?
patrick kellogg
7,579 Pointstwentyfifteen's functions.php file does not explicitly close out php with a ?> at the bottom of the file. So, 2015 is abiding by best practices. But in our bare bones example here it is required. this exposes a subtle bug in wordpress. LOL.
7 Answers
Sue Dough
35,800 PointsPaste your code otherwise its near impossible to help you. My guess is you didn't include get_header and get_footer.
patrick kellogg
7,579 Pointsmaybe i wasn't clear - i figured it out - this is what breaks it :
in functions.php if you just have this in the file with nothing else such as code or a closing php tag: ?> at the end of the file it breaks and produces no output
<?php
// without this at the end of the file: ?> it breaks and produces no output
patrick kellogg
7,579 Pointswith ide's, such as phpstorm when you create a new php file it create this for you:
<?php
// with no ?> closing tag because having a closing tag when not needed is bad practice // this breaks it and produces no output // a ?> closing tag is needed // with the functions.php file in a theme that is more than a barebones the closing ?> is never there // such as in twentyfifteen
a subtle bug in wordpress
patrick kellogg
7,579 Pointsi hope you understand, if not, let me know an i will send u the code. then u will be enlightened a bit. thanks
patrick kellogg
7,579 Pointscode typed in here gets truncated and screwed up - this form doesn't handle code very gracefully
Sue Dough
35,800 PointsCode works perfect man. You just didn't use the markdown for it properly. Do 3 ticks around the code ``` on the opening and closing.
patrick kellogg
7,579 Pointsthis problem occurred before i got to the part of chopping up index.php into headers and footers the index.php can be as simple as this:
<!DOCTYPE html> <html lang="eng"> <head> <meta charset="utf-8"> <title></title> </head> <body> <h1>test</h1> </body> </html>
patrick kellogg
7,579 Pointsit sounds weird but it is. it is a subtle bug. thanks though
patrick kellogg
7,579 Pointspatrick kellogg
7,579 Pointsi use phpstorm and functions.php being this caused the problem: <?php