WordPress Loop for video category(template) not working on all browsers

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I’m developing a template to display videos in a tiled sort of fashion. The loop I’ve created is meant to grab all posts with the category of “video”. I’ve also tried this with format-type of video, and a template based on taxonomy-post-format-post-video.php, but with the same results:

Basically, the loop works fine in certain browsers (Safari 8) but actually fails to get any posts from the query in other browsers. (mainly mobile browsers, and IE).

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When the loop is working, I get an expected single video. When it is not, I get the error “Sorry, no videos found….” – Same code, different browsers, different results.

Here is a link to an example of this behavior: http://www.enableart.org/langschwartzwald/wordpress/blog/category/video/

and here is the code: 

<?php
    $the_query = new WP_Query('category_name=video'); ?>

    if ( $the_query->have_posts() ) : ?>
    <?php while ( $the_query->have_posts() ) : $the_query->the_post(); ?>
        <div class="video_tile">
            <?php the_content();
                the_id(); ?>
            <div class="video_title">
                <?php the_title(); ?>
            </div>
        </div>
    <?php endwhile; ?>
    <?php wp_reset_postdata(); ?>
<?php else : ?>
<br>
    <h1 style="color: lightblue;"><?php _e( 'Sorry, no videos found...' ); ?></h1>
<?php endif; ?>
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1 comment

  1. There is something wrong with Your markup, it should be:

    <?php
    $the_query = new WP_Query('category_name=video');?>
<!-- the loop -->
    <?php if ( $the_query->have_posts() ) : ?>
    <?php while ( $the_query->have_posts() ) : $the_query->the_post(); ?>
        <div class="video_tile">
            <?php the_content();
                the_id(); ?>
            <div class="video_title">
                <?php the_title(); ?>
            </div>
        </div>
    <?php endwhile; ?>
<!-- end of the loop -->
    <?php wp_reset_postdata(); ?>
<?php else : ?>
<br>
    <h1 style="color: lightblue;"><?php _e( 'Sorry, no videos found...' ); ?></h1>
<?php endif; ?>

    basically <!-- the loop --> comment type is not allowed in php and it messes things up (I guess)

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