Problem in preview

[app2us]

www.app2us.com/blog

wp version 2.9.2
Education theme version 1.0, purchased and uploaded a few hours ago

Problem: I can see the education theme added as "Available themes" on the "manage themes" page. It has ACTIVATE PREVIEW and DELETE links. When I click PREVIEW, I get this error at the bottom of the preview page:

Catchable fatal error: Object of class WP_Error could not be converted to string in /home/content/html/blog/wp-content/themes/education_10/home.php on line 40

Above message is a hyperlink and if I click, this page opens:

http://app2us.com/blog/%3Cbr/ ( http://app2us.com/blog/<br/ )

I have not Activated, because the actual page could have the same error. So if you access my blog, you will still see the old default theme.
Please help.


The line 40 in home.php is:
<p class="textright"><b><a href="<?php echo get_category_link(get_theme_mod('featured_top_left ')); ?>" rel="bookmark"><?php _e("Read More Posts in", 'studiopress'); ?> <?php echo $featcat; ?></a></b></p>
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Another problem with the preview:
The posts are visible in one column on the left and right column is completely blank - and no blog categories etc are seen. Is this expected and is some customization required to make stuff appear in the second column?

[CharlesClarkson]

It sounds like you are previewing the post before selecting a category for it. Try selecting a category before the preview. If that doesn't work, save a draft after choosing the category and see if the error disappears. The problem is in the theme code, but we would need to do this test anyway, so give it a try.


HTH,

[app2us]

I went ahead and activated the Education theme so that people helping me can see what I am seeing. My original problem is not there anymore.

However, for the left column, I was expecting to see most recent n posts. However the theme is forcing me to select one particular category and only most recent n posts in that category are displayed [currently I have selected Applications category] - and selecting ALL CATEGORIES is not an option there. I am referring to HOMEPAGE FEATURED LEFT section in the Education theme options.

Thank you very much for your time.

[CharlesClarkson]

Originally Posted by app2us

However, as you can see, the left column is now empty - what customization is needed for posts to appear there?

I see all 3 columns in Firefox 3.6 on Windows Vista.

Apparently, you are working on this right now.


HTH,

[app2us]

yes, I was working. still the problem remains:

However, for the left column, I was expecting to see most recent n posts. However the theme is forcing me to select one particular category and only most recent n posts in that category are displayed - and selecting ALL CATEGORIES is not an option there. I am refering to HOMEPAGE FEATURED LEFT section in the Education theme options.

Thank you very much for your time.

[CharlesClarkson]

Originally Posted by app2us

... and selecting all categories is not an option there.

It never was an option for this theme. You would have to customize the theme to present all categories on the home page.


HTH,