Lucas

I fixed it using this code instead.

Just if anyone finds this thread and wonders how it is done this is how to do it:

First we make a function (in functions.php) called featured which will create a custom WP_Query.

function featured(){
	$featured = new WP_Query( 'posts_per_page=1' );
		if ( $featured->have_posts() ) { 

		while ( $featured->have_posts() ) : $featured->the_post();

			get_template_part( 'content', get_post_format() );

		endwhile;
		}
}
add_action('tdm_before_header','featured');

Now I have created a hook using this function:

function tdm_before_header() {
    do_action('tdm_before_header');
}

…and calls it from the theme using the function itself (note: excerpt) :

...
<div id="page" class="hfeed site cf">
	<?php tdm_before_header(); ?>
	<header id="masthead" class="site-header" role="banner">
...

It says no errors.

But however, there must be something wrong with the hook.

This random error appears:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING in /Users/lucasdechow/Sites/the-damn-margin-blog/wp-content/themes/tdm/functions.php on line 229

Basically it says add_action doesn’t work… Hmmm

@andrew
Thanks again for looking into this.

Should I leave the curly braces on?

If I dont it gives me this error:
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING in /Users/lucasdechow/Sites/the-damn-margin-blog/wp-content/themes/tdm/functions.php on line 186

Else it gives me the exact same error as before…

The excerpt closes all the curly brace’s.
This even easy to be checked in Sublime Text 2.

I think I might have gone wrong somewhere in the syntax of the loop?