Custom page template for Stargazer child theme fails

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marcelstoer
1 month ago

I’m using a child theme for Stargazer. I wanted to create a page template based on the Stargazer page.php.

So, I copied content/page.php to my theme folder as /mytemplate.php. Other than adding the Template Name: code comment I didn’t change it for now. Assigning it to a page and loading it fails with

Warning: count(): Parameter must be an array or an object that implements Countable in /wp-includes/post-template.php on line 284

It is caused when <?php the_content(); ?> is evaluated, doh.

There is a long discussion about several aspects / causes for this error at https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/42814 but I don’t see how any of that applies to my case.

I feel I’m missing something obvious.
Justin Tadlock
4 weeks ago

You copied the incorrect template for creating a custom page template. Anything under /content is just the “content” area of the page. It’s missing important bits like The Loop and such.

The template you need to copy is index.php: https://github.com/justintadlock/stargazer/blob/master/index.php
marcelstoer
3 weeks ago

Got it, thank you. The reason I ended up copying page.php is because I simply needed a page without title. How can this be accomplished with minimal modification effort? If I copy index.php I would have to copy everything else as well, no (if I only need to tweak the page template)?

You’d need to copy index.php. Then, replace this line within the file:

<?php hybrid_get_content_template(); // Loads the content/*.php template. ?>

With this code from /content/page.php, which leaves out the header/title code:

<article <?php hybrid_attr( 'post' ); ?>>

    <div <?php hybrid_attr( 'entry-content' ); ?>>
        <?php the_content(); ?>
        <?php wp_link_pages(); ?>
    </div><!-- .entry-content -->

    <footer class="entry-footer">
        <?php edit_post_link(); ?>
    </footer><!-- .entry-footer -->

</article><!-- .entry -->

marcelstoer
3 weeks ago

Thank you so much.