Title: Issue creating theme: error displaying template
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# Issue creating theme: error displaying template

 *  [davembrown55](https://wordpress.org/support/users/davembrown55/)
 * (@davembrown55)
 * [12 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/issue-creating-theme-error-displaying-template/)
 * Hi there, I hope you can help me.
 * Im redesigning my website from a basic html. This time as well as making it much
   more modern in general I want to integrate wordpress into it as a cmd. I have
   been following the themeshaper tutorial to develop my own theme and enable me
   to get my head around how the whole thing goes together. heres a link to the 
   tut: [http://themeshaper.com/2012/10/22/the-themeshaper-wordpress-theme-tutorial-2nd-edition/](http://themeshaper.com/2012/10/22/the-themeshaper-wordpress-theme-tutorial-2nd-edition/)
 * Anyway, although I have been finding the proccess of going through this tutorial
   very informative when I try to view my site via xampp I keep getting the same
   error message:
 * Fatal error: Call to undefined function shape_content_nav() in C:\xampp\htdocs\
   wordpress\wp-content\themes\langdaleview\index.php on line 23
 * Right, before I go any further I’l post a link to a public file on dropbox that
   contains all the files in my site so that all code can be viewed:
 * [https://www.dropbox.com/sh/u192bu7yfkcyxz8/wNFgG2_sW5](https://www.dropbox.com/sh/u192bu7yfkcyxz8/wNFgG2_sW5)
 * So clearly, this error is refering to a function which is defined in the template-
   tags.php file on line 71
 * and template-tags.php is linked to within the functions.php file on line 32
 * The odd thing is that, I thought I solved this problem a couple of days ago; 
   whilst I was going through the code in functions.php I noticed that I had left
   out the code from lines 29-33, which in my mind would be the route of the problem.
   However, after solving this issue the error message remained and has me completely
   stumped.
 * I have since been through the tutorial two or three times ensuring that I have
   included all the code detailed within the tutorial and to be honest it all seems
   to be there; so I can’t see what the problem is.
 * I’m pretty sure that I have missed something obvious being a noob, so any input
   will be greatly obliged. Thankyou in advance my friends.
 * Dave B

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 *  Thread Starter [davembrown55](https://wordpress.org/support/users/davembrown55/)
 * (@davembrown55)
 * [12 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/issue-creating-theme-error-displaying-template/#post-4040773)
 * Hi there again, I’m not entirely sure whether I have posted this in the correct
   place. If so, please advise me the correct place to post it, thank you for your
   time.
 * Dave B

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