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Jonathan Seligsohn
Jonathan Seligsohn
23,116 Points
Posted by Jonathan Seligsohn
Jonathan Seligsohn
23,116 Points

How to Build WordPress Theme, Stage 3: WP Theme Functions - SERVER ERROR

I've been following along these great tutorials about wordpress, but now I'm stuck. I'm running a test WP site on my local server (as directed by the tutorials). I just added the following code to the file front-page.php:

<?php get_header(); ?>
<p>This is the front-page.php file.</p>

<?php if ( have_posts() ) : while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); ?>
    <h3><?php the_title(); ?></h3>
    <?php the_content(): ?>
    <hr> 

<?php endwhile; else: ?>

    <p>There are no posts.</p>
<?php endif; ?>

<?php get_footer(); ?>

When I go to Visit Site, I get an HTML 500 error - Server Error.

What's the problem?

Other info: Other than the basic theme info, my style.css is blank. But even when I use a different style.css, I still get an error.

Jonathan Seligsohn
Jonathan Seligsohn
23,116 Points
Jonathan Seligsohn
Jonathan Seligsohn
23,116 Points

Figured it out: It would seem that instead of a semicolon, I had just a colon.

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