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Jason, you seem to be my WordPress guiding light. I am using OneColumn by van der Leest:<br />
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<a href="http://wordpress.org/themes/onecolumn" rel="ugc">http://wordpress.org/themes/onecolumn</a><br />
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&gt;&gt;&gt;That message appears when WordPress can't find posts (duh). &nbsp;But on the front page, that may be due to a specific setting or even a hardcoded theme option that looks for posts from specific category or custom post type that you haven't populated yet. <br />
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I figured as much.<br />
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&gt;&gt;&gt;If not, you will need to change the settings and/or dive into the theme templates to remove the code that looks for posts. <br />
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Yep -- I am gonna look around for something in the templates, starting with page.php. I will work with this for a while and get back to you.<br />
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Thank you as always.<br />
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Eric
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Okay, I'm out and about and can't dive into that theme until much later tonight but dive I will.<br />
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As far as looking around, don't look at page.php. That's the template for WordPress pages. &nbsp;Instead, look for index.php or home.php in the theme folder and really look for use of the is_home() function. &nbsp;That' soused to determine if the current user is on the home page of the site and may reference an include file or template.
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Dear Jason,<br />
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Well, I don't want you to spend a lot of time on this. =) I am sure you have many better things to do with your Sunday evening. Actually, I think I fixed it ... though I am not sure what I did. I was editing page.php; and I also changed a few things in Appearance | Customize. And then the &quot;Sorry, no posts....&quot; message went away.<br />
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I will try to recreate what I did so I can post it here as a record.<br />
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Your solution (&quot;change the settings and/or dive into the theme templates to remove the code that looks for posts&quot;) was the right solution .... I will find out exactly what I did though.<br />
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Gotta go out for a while; will be back later this evening. Hope you are well.<br />
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Eric
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Jason ... I am not sure exactly what I did. (Which I find at once puzzling and troubling, since I am usually very careful about edits I make in any template, whether PHP, ASP, or ColdFusion.) I am pretty sure I edited something in page.php, and/or flipped a switch somewhere in the dashboard. Anyway, it is working. As always, thank you for your time and expertise. I hope your weekend was excellent and not too full of development work. Have a great week.<br />
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best from Eric
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I am pretty sure I edited something in page.php, and/or flipped a switch somewhere in the dashboard
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My guess is you switched Settings | Reading away from &quot;Latest Posts&quot; and over to &quot;Static Page&quot;<br />
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In my testing, that removes the &quot;Sorry, no posts matched your criteria&quot; message.<br />
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The other way to do it would have been to edit the Main Index Template (index.php) and look for the following lines:<br />
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<pre><code class="code-1 nolinks" id="code-20-39694693-1"><span>	&lt;?php the_excerpt(); ?&gt;</span>
<span>		&lt;?php endwhile; else: ?&gt;</span>
<span>		&lt;p&gt;&lt;?php _e('Sorry, no posts matched your criteria.', 'onecolumn'); ?&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</span>
<span>		&lt;?php endif; ?&gt;</span>
</code></pre>
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You can then modify or remove the error message in line 3
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Hi. I have a &quot;Sorry, no posts matched your criteria.&quot; message on the front page of my WordPress site. I cannot find any way in the Dashboard or in any of the templates to omit this message. Has anyone else encountered this problem? Has anyone succeeded in getting rid of the &quot;Sorry, no posts matched your criteria.&quot; message?<br />
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Thank you for any advice!<br />
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Eric
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WordPress 3.7.1

Hi. I have a "Sorry, no posts matched your criteria." message on the front page of my WordPress site. I cannot find any way in the Dashboard or in any of the templates to omit this message. Has anyone else encountered this problem? Has anyone succeeded in getting rid of the "Sorry, no posts matched your criteria." message?

Thank you for any advice!

Eric

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How to get rid of &quot;Sorry, no posts matched your criteria.&quot; ?

How to get rid of "Sorry, no posts matched your criteria." ?