Comments on: Here’s a Quick Way to Add a Custom Date Graphic to your WordPress Blog

By: Jason

Jason — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 16:07:57 +0000

Click on the ‘Contact’ link at the top of the site and send me your login information. That will send an email to me directly without posting your credentials online.

Jason

By: Stu

Stu — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 05:15:11 +0000

Thanks for the offer Jason. I’m happy with the look of the blog that I’m developing, though I’d love to add the custom date graphic that you’ve described.

How do we proceed?

Stu

By: Jason

Jason — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 02:54:19 +0000

Stu, if you’d like, I can check your code within your site. Send me an email via the form here and lets take this out of the public conversation.

Jason

By: Stu

Stu — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 03:33:07 +0000

Thanks again Jason. I gave up on the repeating date, but still made good use of the image had intended to use by placing it below the header: http://WGTDblog.com/

Best wishes.

By: Jason

Jason — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 01:02:01 +0000

Ah yes, good catch. But that missing semi-colon is in the CSS file, not the PHP stuff. That would just cause the styling to be wonky.

Check for a missing semi-colon in index.php at or before line 21. I’ve also added semicolons to the first block of php code above, where I’m calling the month and date. Check your version of that code also.

Not sure what else to suggest. There’s not a lot of custom php coding here.

Let me know how it turns out.

By: Stu

Stu — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 23:33:33 +0000

Thank you Jason. I do see a missing semi-colon in the .date CSS above. I copied the Wordpress code verbatim (inserting your post code from Comment #3 above).

The post code seems questionable between the back-to-back instances of “php the_title()”, though it sounds it works for you.

I haven’t made any other edits to index.php, so it’s just native code from the Atahualpa theme.

Any other thoughts on what I might do?

By: Jason

Jason — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 13:02:43 +0000

Hi Stu,

The ‘unexpected T_CLASS’ error usually signifies a missing comma or semi-colon at the end of a line. The error might not even be on line 21, but a previous one. It is finding ‘unexpected’ elements after the missing character.

So look on line 20 for a missing semi-colon. I bet that’s the issue. If not, look on the lines before also.

Look up ‘unexpected T_CLASS’ on the internet to learn more about this pretty common issue.

If you still can’t fix it, please let me know!

Jason