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Warblade
01-17-2008, 11:23 PM
Hey all-

I recently launched my new and improved website on the first of the year. I had a handcoded blog setup thinking that I would just code each entry. Well, that lasted long! I've gotten tired of updating numerous files each time I post a new article. So that led me to WordPress. I've heard it's a great CMS and valid (very important to me) so I downloaded. Well I got it up on my server and webpage alright and since I've never used PHP or WP before, I read Jonathon Wold's tutorial (http://www.jonathanwold.com/tutorials/wordpress_theme/) to figure out how to make my own template. It took awhile but I got the template to match fairly similar to my web site (still a few bugs to work out). But for some reason my sidebar won't show up. It get a parse error that states:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_ENDIF in /home/content/T/r/e/Trekracing/html/blog/wp-content/themes/default/sidebar.php on line 74

My blog is located at http://www.chrisdire.com/blog
Realize that it is far from final, but this seems to be the biggest problem thus far, so I want to get it taken care of.

Here is my sidebar.php file:

<div class="rightColumnContainer">
<div class="rightColumn ulMargin">
<div id="sidebar">
<ul>

<li>
<?php include (TEMPLATEPATH . '/searchform.php'); ?>
</li>

<!-- Author information is disabled per default. Uncomment and fill in your details if you want to use it.
<li><h2>Author</h2>
<p>A little something about you, the author. Nothing lengthy, just an overview.</p>
</li>
-->

<li>

<?php if ( is_404() || is_category() || is_day() || is_month() ||
is_year() || is_search() || is_paged() ) {
?> <li>

<?php /* If this is a 404 page */ if (is_404()) { ?>
<?php /* If this is a category archive */ } elseif (is_category()) { ?>
<p>You are currently browsing the archives for the <?php single_cat_title(''); ?> category.</p>

<?php /* If this is a yearly archive */ } elseif (is_day()) { ?>
<p>You are currently browsing the <a href="<?php bloginfo('url'); ?>/"><?php echo bloginfo('name'); ?></a> blog archives
for the day <?php the_time('l, F jS, Y'); ?>.</p>

<?php /* If this is a monthly archive */ } elseif (is_month()) { ?>
<p>You are currently browsing the <a href="<?php bloginfo('url'); ?>/"><?php echo bloginfo('name'); ?></a> blog archives
for <?php the_time('F, Y'); ?>.</p>

<?php /* If this is a yearly archive */ } elseif (is_year()) { ?>
<p>You are currently browsing the <a href="<?php bloginfo('url'); ?>/"><?php echo bloginfo('name'); ?></a> blog archives
for the year <?php the_time('Y'); ?>.</p>

<?php /* If this is a monthly archive */ } elseif (is_search()) { ?>
<p>You have searched the <a href="<?php echo bloginfo('url'); ?>/"><?php echo bloginfo('name'); ?></a> blog archives
for <strong>'<?php the_search_query(); ?>'</strong>. If you are unable to find anything in these search results, you can try one of these links.</p>

<?php /* If this is a monthly archive */ } elseif (isset($_GET['paged']) && !empty($_GET['paged'])) { ?>
<p>You are currently browsing the <a href="<?php echo bloginfo('url'); ?>/"><?php echo bloginfo('name'); ?></a> blog archives.</p>

<?php } ?>

</li> <?php }?>

<?php wp_list_pages('title_li=<h2>Pages</h2>' ); ?>

<li><h2>Archives</h2>
<ul>
<?php wp_get_archives('type=monthly'); ?>
</ul>
</li>

<?php wp_list_categories('show_count=1&title_li=<h2>Categories</h2>'); ?>

<?php /* If this is the frontpage */ if ( is_home() || is_page() ) { ?>
<?php wp_list_bookmarks(); ?>

<li><h2>Meta</h2>
<ul>
<?php wp_register(); ?>
<li><?php wp_loginout(); ?></li>
<li><a href="http://validator.w3.org/check/referer" title="This page validates as XHTML 1.0 Transitional">Valid <abbr title="eXtensible HyperText Markup Language">XHTML</abbr></a></li>
<li><a href="http://gmpg.org/xfn/"><abbr title="XHTML Friends Network">XFN</abbr></a></li>
<li><a href="http://wordpress.org/" title="Powered by WordPress, state-of-the-art semantic personal publishing platform.">WordPress</a></li>
<?php wp_meta(); ?>
</ul>
</li>
<?php } ?>

<?php endif; ?>
</ul>
</div>
</div> <!-- rCC and rC divs end here -->
</div>


What other information do you guys and gals need? Please let me know. And if anyone can throw out some help or advice, please do so! Thanks in advance.

Warblade
01-18-2008, 02:35 PM
Anyone, anyone? Any idea's?

Warblade
01-19-2008, 02:24 PM
Alright so I just downloaded the template and redid my sidebar.php page. Now it's looking pretty good in my opinion. But I have a question regarding the tags. I want to put a "Recent Posts" (showing the most recent entries) and a "Recent Comments" (showing the most recent comments made) section in my sidebar. I looked through the tags and couldn't seem to find something a long the lines of it. Could someone maybe help point me in the right direction??