Wordpress Theme Development: Only the second post shows up on

Hi Jonathan,

It's hard to assess the problem from a distance based on your description and you possibly already tried this, but are you sure that index.php is the file that is displaying the page where you want your posts to show up? Try adding a test somewhere and see if it shows up, and check to see if your theme folder holds a file named home.php. I would also check to see if the post displays correctly on other pages and as a single post.

Otherwise, adding the WP_Query statement like below might help. However, that might not explain why your current code doesn't work.

Hope this helps.

<?php get_header(); ?>

<section class="row">
      <div class="small-12 columns text-center">

        <div class="leader">
            <?php 
               $args = array(
                 'post_type' => 'post',
                 'posts_per_page' => '2'
                );
              $the_query = new WP_Query( $args );
            ?>

        <?php if ( $the_query->have_posts() ) : while ( $the_query->have_posts() ) : $the_query->the_post(); ?>
            <h1><?php the_title(); ?></h1>
            <p><?php the_content(); ?></p>   

        <?php endwhile; else : ?>
            <p><?php _e( 'Sorry, no posts matched your criteria.' ); ?></p>
        <?php endif; //endif ?>           
        </div>
      </div>
    </section>
<?php get_footer(); ?>

Hi Robin,

Thanks for your response.

To be honest I've moved onto the next few videos after this and left it as it is :)

There are now 2 templates.

index.php which is the default template, and page.php along with page-left-sidebar.php which serves as the second Template. This is working perfectly but when I last looked index.php was still only showing up the one post.

My guess is a setting when I was setting up the database is causing the difference between the videos because I followed it to the latter. Or even simply that it might just be a difference between the versions of WordPress.