title: Wordpress Page Template Not Rendering
body: <p>Our blog page is supposed to look something like this: <a href="http://livedemo00.template-help.com/wordpress_33821/?page_id=174" rel="nofollow">http://livedemo00.template-help.com/wordpress_33821/?page_id=174</a></p>
  
  <p>However it ends up looking like this - completely empty!</p>
  
  <p>This is despite the fact that the page theme is set correctly and the template file contains the following code:</p>
  
  <pre><code>    &lt;?php
  /**
   * Template Name: Blog
   */
  
  get_header(); ?&gt;
  &lt;div class="box clearfix color2"&gt;
      &lt;div id="content" class="three_fourth"&gt;
  
    &lt;?php
    $temp = $wp_query;
    $wp_query= null;
    $wp_query = new WP_Query();
    $wp_query-&gt;query('showposts=5'.'&amp;paged='.$paged);
    ?&gt;
      &lt;?php while ($wp_query-&gt;have_posts()) : $wp_query-&gt;the_post(); ?&gt;
      &lt;article id="post-&lt;?php the_ID(); ?&gt;" &lt;?php post_class(); ?&gt;&gt;
        &lt;header&gt;
          &lt;h2&gt;&lt;a href="&lt;?php the_permalink() ?&gt;" title="&lt;?php the_title(); ?&gt;" rel="bookmark"&gt;&lt;?php the_title(); ?&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
          &lt;div class="post-meta"&gt;
            &lt;div class="fleft"&gt;Posted in: &lt;?php the_category(', ') ?&gt; | &lt;time datetime="&lt;?php the_time('Y-m-d\TH:i'); ?&gt;"&gt;&lt;?php the_time('F j, Y'); ?&gt; at &lt;?php the_time() ?&gt;&lt;/time&gt; , by &lt;?php the_author_posts_link() ?&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
            &lt;div class="fright"&gt;&lt;?php comments_popup_link('No comments', 'One comment', '% comments', 'comments-link', 'Comments are closed'); ?&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
          &lt;/div&gt;&lt;!--.post-meta--&gt;
        &lt;/header&gt;
        &lt;?php echo '&lt;div class="featured-thumbnail"&gt;'; the_post_thumbnail(); echo '&lt;/div&gt;'; ?&gt;
        &lt;div class="post-content"&gt;
          &lt;div class="excerpt"&gt;&lt;?php $excerpt = get_the_excerpt(); echo my_string_limit_words($excerpt,50);?&gt;&lt;a href="&lt;?php the_permalink() ?&gt;" class="link-more"&gt;Read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
        &lt;/div&gt;
      &lt;/article&gt;
  
    &lt;?php endwhile; ?&gt;
  
    &lt;?php if ( $wp_query-&gt;max_num_pages &gt; 1 ) : ?&gt;
      &lt;nav class="oldernewer"&gt;
        &lt;div class="older"&gt;
          &lt;?php next_posts_link('&amp;laquo; Older Entries') ?&gt;
        &lt;/div&gt;&lt;!--.older--&gt;
        &lt;div class="newer"&gt;
          &lt;?php previous_posts_link('Newer Entries &amp;raquo;') ?&gt;
        &lt;/div&gt;&lt;!--.newer--&gt;
      &lt;/nav&gt;&lt;!--.oldernewer--&gt;
    &lt;?php endif; ?&gt;
  
    &lt;?php $wp_query = null; $wp_query = $temp;?&gt;
  
  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;!--#content--&gt;
  &lt;?php get_sidebar(); ?&gt;
  &lt;/div&gt;
  &lt;?php get_footer(); ?&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Unfortunately this theme doesn't have any documentation so I'm forced to find my own solution.</p>