Serious php get_template_part() Wordpress issues - easy fix? - php

Question

I am needing some serious Wordpress expertise from others. I am in the process of building a custom theme, read about the get_template_part() method and decided that would help in cleaning up and organizing my code. I updated my theme to use this method several places and now the site is completely broken...not a single thing will load!! :( I would really appreciate any help! I will copy and paste a few of the php files below. Maybe someone with more experience with using this method can point out the problem. THANKS!
page.php
<?php get_header(); ?>
<div id="content" class="content">
<?php while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); ?>
<!-- About page -->
<?php if (is_page('about')) ?>
<?php get_template_part( 'page', 'about' ); ?>
<!-- Media & Gallery page -->
<?php if (is_page('media-gallery')) ?>
<?php get_template_part( 'page', 'mediagallery' ); ?>
<?php endwhile; // end of the loop. ?>
</div> <!--/end content -->
<?php get_footer(); ?>
page-about.php
<div id="about">
<div class="text">
<h2 class="about"><?php echo get_the_title(); ?></h2>
<?php the_content(); ?>
</div>
</div>
page-mediagallery.php
<div id="pic-gallery">
<?php include_once 'includes/pwaplusphp/albums.php'; ?>
</div>
index.php
<?php get_header(); ?>
<div class="content">
<?php if ( have_posts() ) : ?>
<?php while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); ?>
<?php get_template_part( 'content', get_post_format() ); ?>
<br class="clr"/>
<?php endwhile; ?>
<?php content_nav( 'nav-below' ); ?>
<?php else : ?>
<article id="post-0" class="post no-results not-found">
<header class="entry-header">
<h3 class="blog"><?php _e( 'Nothing Found' ); ?></h3>
</header> <!-- .entry-header -->
<div class="entry-content">
<p><?php _e( 'Apologies, but no results were found for the requested archive. Perhaps searching will help find a related post.'); ?></p>
</div> <!-- .entry-content -->
</article> <!-- #post-0 -->
<?php endif; ?>
</div> <!--/end content -->
<?php get_footer(); ?>
content-gallery.php
<div id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>" <?php post_class(); ?>>
<div class="post-date"><?php the_time(get_option('date_format')); ?></div>
<h3 class="blog"><?php the_title(); ?></h3>
<div class="post-content"><?php the_content(); ?></div>
</div>
Any thoughts why these may not be working? All of these files are under the root directory of the theme so the get_template_part() method should be finding all of the files. What's weird is no code is being spit out by Wordpress. aka. Since I've started using this method, not a single line of code is spit out in my browser when I inspect the source.
I am using the newest version of Wordpress and Google Chrome for my browser.
I also have this code at the top of each of my .php files, but that shouldn't mess up anything because it's commented as seen below:
<?php
/**
* I put a description of what the file does here.
*
* #package Keynote_WP_Themes
* #subpackage Rhymz_Suhreal
* #copyright Rhymz Suhreal, 2012
* #author Kyle Affolder <myemail#example.com>
*/
?>
I don't have the slightest clue as to what I'm doing wrong. :(
Ideas coding friends?!

Answer 1

Using your page-about.php as an example, you should be calling it like this in the template it's to be place in:
<?php get_template_part( "page-about" ); ?>
The template needs to be in the root of your theme directory so you can use "page-about" without the .php, and not have to indicate the location/directory the file would otherwise be located.

Answer 2

I've run into this a few times before as well - I can't really explain why yet as I'm still digging through the documentation, but it seems you can't call template parts this way when you are inside a post loop ;)
Anytime you are inside the loop, try using this instead:
<?php include(get_query_template('page-about')); ?>