Reply To: My First WordPress Theme – PHP and function output problems

[Anonymous]

There’s definitely some incorrect code in there:

echo '<h3 id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>"><a href="';

And I suspect:

echo '<p><span>&lt;a href="author/"';
echo get_the_author_link();
echo '</span></a>';
//echo the_author(); </span></a>;

Wasn’t doing what you were expecting it to either. As far as I can tell from the documentation, get_the_author_link() spits out the anchor tag anyway.

As you rightly acknowledge, the repeated echos are unnecessary and make the code much harder to visualise. I’ve cleaned up the first section in a pastebin:

http://pastebin.com/EKJmGzz2

That should be functionally the same, although I did take the liberty of removing the malformed lines. Hopefully the problems won’t persist after you’ve applied the same principle to the rest of the code.