Posts page not displaying the_content()

Resolved Steve McKinney
(@stemckinney)

16 years, 2 months ago
hello all,

i want to display the content that goes in the wordpress editor for the blog page itself, while my posts are displaying i want to have a <h1> on the banner

see: http://iamsteve.me/blog/
```
<div id="blog_banner_bottom">
	<?php the_content(); ?>
</div>
```
i want the content of the page blog to display there but it isn’t, i’m hoping you can tell me where i am going wrong

if you need anything else to get a better idea i’ll provide it

many thanks,
steve

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Michael
(@alchymyth)

16 years, 2 months ago
the_content(); needs to be in a wordpress loop.

http://codex.ww.wp.xz.cn/Template_Tags/the_content

page templates do normally not display the content of the page they are assigned to.

a minimal version of the loop in your above code might do:
```
<div id="blog_banner_bottom">
	<?php if(have_posts()) : while(have_posts()) : the_post(); the_content(); endwhile; endif; ?>
</div>
```
not sure what you mean with the <h1>, could you elaborate?
Thread Starter Steve McKinney
(@stemckinney)

16 years, 2 months ago

i’ll give that a try but it’s confusing to explain but, each page has like a description in the banner which i have a different page layout for the posts page over the other pages, which as the posts page is different and is the page with the blog posts whatever i put in the blog actual page, and not an actual post won’t show before the posts

if that makes any sense

Thread Starter Steve McKinney
(@stemckinney)

16 years, 1 month ago

still looking for an answer!

Safirul Alredha
(@zeo)

16 years, 1 month ago

Is that /blog/ a Page that you set to display blog posts under Reading Setting > Front page displays > Posts page: ?

Thread Starter Steve McKinney
(@stemckinney)

16 years, 1 month ago

yes, it’s my posts page

Safirul Alredha
(@zeo)

16 years, 1 month ago

Here’s a hint.

Grab the id of that page. Use get_post() or get_page() then setup_postdata(). And then u can use the_content().
Thread Starter Steve McKinney
(@stemckinney)

16 years, 1 month ago
i’m pretty useless when it comes to php, but i’ve had a look at the codex and used my limited knowledge either way still don’t have much of an idea, so i hope you can point me in the right direction
```
<?php
  $pageid = 'blog';
  $pageid = $blog;
  get_page($blog);
  setup_postdata($blog);
  the_content();
?>
```
Safirul Alredha
(@zeo)

16 years, 1 month ago

see: http://zeo.my/wordpress-displays-the-contents-of-static-page-posts-page/

Probably work probably not in your end.

Thread Starter Steve McKinney
(@stemckinney)

16 years, 1 month ago

it worked, thanks a lot!

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