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Carla Thomas
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Carla Thomas
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Carla Thomas
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Fatal error: Call to undefined funtion...

I keep getting the following error when trying to view the CSS files from the view-source page:

Fatal error: Call to undefined function get_header() in C:\xampp\htdocs\carlathomas.com\wp-content\themes\wpportfolio\index.php on line 1

My index.php file has the following three lines:

<<?php get_header(); ?>

<p>This is the index</p>

<?php get_footer(); ?>

What am I doing wrong? Thanks in advance.

3 Answers

Daniel Mironis
Daniel Mironis
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Daniel Mironis
Daniel Mironis
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The problem can be in theme that you are using, either free or paid themes can have these issues.

Try using this:

if (function_exists('get_header')) {
     get_header();
} else {
     exit;
}
Carla Thomas
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Carla Thomas
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Carla Thomas
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Carla Thomas
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Thank you for the input. I will definitely copy/paste the above code for future troubleshooting....I did find the problem: I am currently building a theme on the WP Development track and found that I placed a comma (,) where a period (.) should have been.

missgeekbunny
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missgeekbunny
missgeekbunny
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It would need to be something within your header file or in something that your functions.php file adds to the header. Either that or your local installation has broken somewhere. I know I stopped using MAMP after a while because my build kept breaking. I'd either try it on live server and see if you are still getting these errors or look over your files and make sure nothing is wrong. If possible I find it is always helpful to have a subdomain that's something like dev.mydomainname.com so I can test issues I'm having and making sure it isn't my local host (just cause I have had enough problems in the past for various reasons).

Carla Thomas
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Carla Thomas
Front End Web Development Techdegree Student 16,039 Points
Carla Thomas
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Carla Thomas
Front End Web Development Techdegree Student 16,039 Points

Thanks Bunnie. Yes, it was something in the coding on the functions.php file....and I will definitely use your idea of having a subdomain for testing. Thanks again.