Minimum Theme: Removing the 'Sorry, no posts matched your criteria'

[louiseParticipant Post count: 2]

I posted this same question about another theme but the answer is not working for this site.

http://www.studiopress.com/forums/topic/balance-theme-remove-sorry-no-posts-matched-your-criteria/#post-23495

How do I remove the ‘Sorry, no posts matched your criteria’ but leave the sign up box intact?

http://www.worldprayerinitiative.com/

Thanks

Louise

[David ChuParticipant Post count: 313]

This is a bit more precise. I would suggest taking a look at the HTML so you can see what’s being done.  #content holds content and #sidebar holds, you guessed it, the sidebar.  

.home #content {
display: none;
}

As the other guy said, this is sort of a hack, but it will work. One can also remove the actual HTML, but that requires a pinch of function programming.

Dave

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David Chu · Genesis Custom Theme Development

[csbeckParticipant Post count: 86]

Why don’t you create a custom home.php page? And put on it what you want? That way you wouldn’t use hacks. Just wondering.

Chris

[louiseParticipant Post count: 2]

David Chu – thanks, that did the trick.  Much appreciated.

Chris –  The answer to that question is that I don’t know how.  I’m not a programmer, nor have I ever had any training.  I barely know what you guys are talking about but I try not to let that stop me and figure things out as best I can.

Thanks

[David ChuParticipant Post count: 313]

Louise,
Great! Glad that helped!

Chris,
Sure, someone could do that. But many Genesis-ers don’t program. Also, there are many ways to do anything in Genesis. In my custom themes, for disappearing the above I would write a tiny bit of PHP code, and would not need a home.php at all – I almost never use one even for fully tricked-out homepages. Lastly, when working with an official Genesis child theme, many already have a home.php, and if the person is not a skilled coder, the chance of breakage is significant.

Cheers,
Dave

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David Chu · Genesis Custom Theme Development

[csbeckParticipant Post count: 86]

Good points. I’m glad Louise that you got it working! Never give up. Never surrender. Happy Genesis-ing.

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