page-blog.php

<?php
/*
Template Name: Blog
*/
get_header(); ?>
<div id="main-content" class="span8">
	<?php query_posts('post_type=post&post_status=publish&order=ASC&paged='. get_query_var('paged')); ?>
 
		<?php if( have_posts() ): ?>
		
			<?php while( have_posts() ): the_post(); ?>
				
				<div class="post">
					<div class="post-header">
						<h2><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title_attribute(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h2>
					</div>
					<div class="post-content">
						<?php the_content(); ?>
					</div>
					<div class="post-meta">
						<?php the_date( 'F j, Y', '<span class="post-date"><i class="icon-calendar"></i>', '</span>' ); ?>
						<span class="post-author"><a href="<?php echo get_author_posts_url( get_the_author_meta( 'ID' ) ); ?>"><i class="icon-user"></i><?php the_author_meta( 'display_name' ); ?></a></span>
						<?php 
						// PHP Request: If the_tags is empty, do not generate the HTML. I don't want the labels and markup making empty space when there are no tags. 
						the_tags( '<span class="post-tags"><i class="icon-tags"></i>', ', ', '</span>' ); 	
						?> 
					</div>
				</div>
			
			<?php endwhile; ?>
			
			

			<div class="navigation">
				<span class="older"><?php next_posts_link(__('&laquo; Older','example')) ?></span> <span class="newer"><?php previous_posts_link(__('Newer &raquo;','example')) ?></span>
			</div><!-- /.navigation -->
		
		<?php else: ?>
		
			<div id="post-404" class="noposts">
				<p><?php _e('None found.','example'); ?></p>
			</div><!-- /#post-404 -->

		<?php endif; wp_reset_query(); ?>
</div>
<div id="aside-block" class="span3 offset1">
	<?php if ( is_active_sidebar( 'sidebar' ) ) { ?>
		<?php dynamic_sidebar( 'sidebar' ); ?>
	<?php } else { ?>
		<h1>Sidebar</h1>
		<p>Go to Appearance > Widgets, and drag items into Sidebar to edit this area.</p>
	<?php }; ?>	
</div>


<?php get_footer(); ?>