I am using this code to display a post on my homepage. <?php the_title(); ?>
is returning blank.
Source: idolizeonline.com (NSFW link)
— If you hover over the thumbnails, the title and excerpt of the post should appear over the image (excerpt is title is not).
<?php if(!of_get_option('ttrust_open_project_single')) : ?>
<div class="project small ajx <?php echo $p; ?>" id="project-<?php echo $post->post_name;?>">
<a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" ></a>
<a href="#<?php echo $post->post_name; ?>" ><?php the_post_thumbnail($project_thumb_size, array('class' => 'thumb', 'alt' => ''.get_the_title().'', 'title' => ''.get_the_title().'')); ?></a>
<span class="title">
<div>
<span id="theTitle"><?php the_title(); ?></span>
<span id="theExcerpt"><?php the_excerpt(); ?></span>
</div>
</span>
</div>
<?php else: ?>
<div class="project small <?php echo $p; ?>" id="project-<?php echo $post->post_name;?>">
<a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" ></a>
<a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" ><?php the_post_thumbnail($project_thumb_size, array('class' => 'thumb', 'alt' => ''.get_the_title().'', 'title' => ''.get_the_title().'')); ?></a>
<span class="title">
<div>
<span id="theTitle"><?php the_title(); ?></span>
<span id="theExcerpt"><?php the_excerpt() ?></span>
</div>
</span>
</div>
<?php endif; ?>
Put the following code at the top of your file:
<?php if( have_posts() ) the_post(); ?>
See: The Loop
I am still unsure what exactly was the issue, but replacing
the_title();
with<?php echo $post->post_title; ?>
worked fine.Check your
page.php
file. Do you have all these things included in that file?I had same issue, and in my case I was using
$post
for another purpose, which was conflicting and causingthe_title()
to display blank.I recently ran into this issue while developing a WordPress theme. WordPress has some declared variables being declared globally, like
$post
,$posts
,Post
and so on, if you are coding a WordPress plugin or theme, you need to make sure you treat those variable names like a reserved word. This is one of the errors you can encounter if you don’t.