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WordPress WordPress Theme Development WordPress Header and Footer Templates Porting existing headers and footers into WordPress

Posted by Nick Muncey
Nick Muncey
4,144 Points

Internal Server Error when porting header

When updating the site after adding the bloginfo() function the site loads blank and returns the error.

Here's my functions.php

<?php

function wpu_theme_styles() {

    wp_enqueue_style( 'foundation_css', get_template_directory_uri() . '/css/foundations.css' );
    wp_enqueue_style( 'normalize_css', get_template_directory_uri() . '/css/normalize.css' );
    wp_enqueue_style( 'font_css', 'http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Asap:400,700,400italic,700italic' );
    wp_enqueue_style( 'main_css', get_template_directory_uri() . '/style.css' );

}
add_action( 'wp_enqueue_scripts', 'wpu_theme_styles' );

function wpu_theme_js() {

    wp_enqueue_script( 'modernizr_js', get_template_directory_uri() . '/js/modernizr.js', '', '', false );
    wp_enqueue_script( 'foundation_js', get_template_directory_uri() . '/js/foundation.js', array('jquery'), '', true );
    wp_enqueue_script( 'main_js', get_template_directory_uri() . '/js/app.js', array('jquery', 'foundation_js'), '', true );

}

add_action( 'wp_enqueue_scripts', 'wpu_theme_js' );

?>

and header.php

<!doctype html>
<html class="no-js" lang="en">
  <head>
    <meta charset="utf-8" />
    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0" />
    <title><?php wp_title(); ?></title>

    <? php wp_head(); ?>

  </head>

  <body>
    <header class="row no-max pad main">
  <h1><a class='current' href="<?php bloginfo('url'); ?>"><?php bloginfo('name'); ?></a></h1>
  <a href="" class="nav-toggle"><span></span>Menu</a>
  <nav>
    <h1 class="open"><a class='current' href="<?php bloginfo('url'); ?>"><?php bloginfo('name'); ?></a></h1>
    <ul class="no-bullet">
      <li class="current parent"><a class='current' href="index.html">Portfolio</a>
        <ul class="sub-menu">
          <li><a href="item.html">Portfolio Item</a></li>
          <li><a href="item.html">Portfolio Item</a></li>
          <li><a href="item.html">Portfolio Item</a></li>
          <li><a href="item.html">Portfolio Item</a></li>
        </ul>
      </li>
      <li class="parent"><a href="blog.html">Blog</a>
        <ul class="sub-menu">
          <li><a href="single-post.html">Single Post</a></li>
          <li><a href="author.html">Author Page</a></li>
        </ul>
      </li>
      <li><a href="about.html">About</a></li>
      <li><a href="contact.html">Contact</a></li>
    </ul>
  </nav>
</header>

7 Answers

miguelcastro2
miguelcastro2
Courses Plus Student 6,573 Points

The web server you are running WordPress on has a log file with a more detailed message. Internal Server Error is the error that is produced by the web server, however, WordPress is producing a more detailed message in the server log files. The error message WordPress is generating would display the file and line number that is causing the problem. Having this information would allow you to pin point the exact location of the error.

miguelcastro2
PLUS
miguelcastro2
Courses Plus Student 6,573 Points
miguelcastro2
miguelcastro2
Courses Plus Student 6,573 Points

This won't give us any clue on what the actual error is. Find the error message in the log files and post them here.

Nick Muncey
Nick Muncey
4,144 Points
Nick Muncey
Nick Muncey
4,144 Points

When I open the inspector it says this, Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 500 (Internal Server Error)

Nick Muncey
Nick Muncey
4,144 Points
Nick Muncey
Nick Muncey
4,144 Points

Thanks, how would I do that through mamp?

miguelcastro2
PLUS
miguelcastro2
Courses Plus Student 6,573 Points
miguelcastro2
miguelcastro2
Courses Plus Student 6,573 Points

All log files are stored in: /Applications/MAMP/logs/

Nick Muncey
Nick Muncey
4,144 Points
Nick Muncey
Nick Muncey
4,144 Points

[24-Feb-2015 12:49:09 UTC] PHP Parse error: syntax error, unexpected 'wp_head' (T_STRING) in /wp-content/themes/udfore/header.php on line 8

Nick Muncey
Nick Muncey
4,144 Points
Nick Muncey
Nick Muncey
4,144 Points

Got it, had a space after the ? and before php.

Thanks.