I really have no idea what went wrong. I am following this tutorial and I am sure I've done everything correctly that was instructed to do up until that point. If needed you can scroll to the bottom for the links that lead to the other parts of the tutorial. I've been fiddling with this since yesterday afternoon. I have NO idea what went wrong. I assumed I didn't close a couple of tags or something and I've even checked W3Schools for validation and I think most of it conflicted with the PHP Scripting. Please help. Much is appreciated. Thanks.
My website for previewing. My search form or my calender will not show up. Also, the "searchform.txt" document is in the tutorial.
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head profile="http://gmpg.org/xfn/11">
<title><?php bloginfo('name'); ?><?php wp_title(); ?></title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="<?php bloginfo('html_type'); ?>"; charset="<?php bloginfo('charset'); ?>" />
<meta name="generator" content="WordPress <?php bloginfo('version'); ?>" /> <!-- leave this for stats please -->
<link rel="stylesheet" href="<?php bloginfo('stylesheet_url'); ?>" type="text/css" media="screen" />
<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="RSS 2.0" href="<?php bloginfo('rss2_url'); ?>" />
<link rel="alternate" type="text/xml" title="RSS .92" href="<?php bloginfo('rss_url'); ?>" />
<link rel="alternate" type="application/atom+xml" title="Atom 0.3" href="<?php bloginfo('atom_url'); ?>" />
<link rel="pingback" href="<?php bloginfo('pingback_url'); ?>" />
<?php wp_get_archives('type=monthly&format=link'); ?>
<?php //comments_popup_script(); // off by default ?>
<?php wp_head(); ?>
</head>
<body>
<div id="header">
<h1><a href="<?php bloginfo('url');?>"><?php bloginfo('name');?> </a></h1>
<?php bloginfo('description');?>
</div>
<div id="container">
<?php if(have_posts()): ?><?php while(have_posts()): the_post(); ?>
<div class="post" id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>">
<h2><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h2>
<div class="entry">
<?php the_content(); ?>
<p class="postmetadata">
<?php _e('Filed under:'); ?> <?php the_category(', ') ?> <?php _e('by'); ?> <?php the_author(); ?><br />
<?php comments_popup_link('No Comments »', '1 Comment »', '% Comments »'); ?> <?php edit_post_link('Edit', ' | ', ''); ?>
</p>
</div>
</div>
<?php endwhile; ?>
<div class="navigation">
<?php posts_nav_link(); ?>
</div>
<?php else : ?>
<div class="post" id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>">
<h2><?php _e('Not Found'); ?></h2>
</div>
<?php endif; ?>
</div>
<div class="sidebar">
<ul>
<li><p>Billy bong bong bangy bang.</p>
</li>
<li id="search">
<?php include(TEMPLATEPATH . '/searchform.php'); ?>
</li>
<li id="calendar"><h2><?php _e(‘Calendar’); ?></h2>
<?php get_calendar(); ?>
</li>
<?php wp_list_pages('depth=1&title_li=<h2>Pages</h2>'); ?>
<li><h2><?php _e('Categories'); ?></h2>
<ul>
<?php wp_list_cats('sort_column=name&optioncount=1&hierchal=0'); ?>
</ul>
</li>
<li><h2><?php _e('Archives'); ?></h2>
<ul>
<?php wp_get_archives('type=monthly'); ?>
</ul>
</li>
<?php get_links_list(); ?>
</ul>
</div>
</body>
</html>As you can see, I've typed some random text in order to get things to show up which is still not working.
Heeeeeelp. Much appreciated.