‘Nothing Found’ appears at the bottom of my pages
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I deleted unwanted material at the bottom of some pages (based on a template, I’ve forgotten which one) and now the pages display ‘Nothing Found’ at the bottom of each page — no further information, just those two words. How do I get rid of them??? <
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Hi paulaeisner,
It looks like your four header menu items (links) are not linking to their respective pages but to page_IDs which don’t seem to exist on your blog, which is why you are getting the default “Nothing Found” (404) page when you click them.
I can’t think how they could have been “un-linked” when you were only editing the footer widget (you seem to be using the Illustratr theme BTW), but in any case I think you should be able to fix it by following the “Custom Menus” guide to reset your menu items: https://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/
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Henrietta Steward –
Thanks so much! Can you tell me specifically how to reset the menu items to relink them? I am new to wordpress and find the terminology confusing.Mark Eisner (for Paula Eisner)
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Hi Mark,
Glad to be able to help you out. :) I can see that you have now managed to get the header menu links working again, so that’s great.
The WordPress terminology can definitely be confusing when you first start out, I think everyone feels that way, but I have no doubt you’ll soon get the hang of it.
If I understand your question correctly concerning resetting menu items you could first remove the existing menu items, that is explained here: https://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/#delete-menu-items, and then add them again to the menu, as is explained here: https://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/#add-menu-items, I would think that should “relink” them. Though I’m not sure you need to do that as it seems to me like your menu is working fine now.
Let us know if that works out for you.
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Henrietta Stewart:
Thanks for your response.
I deleted the menu and reinstated it, relinking to the ‘child’ pages. However “Nothing Found” still appears at the bottom of each of those child pages. When I edit those pages there is nothing at the bottom indicating a link, but clearly the system is attempting to make a link. Do you have any idea how to get rid of the spurious “Nothing Found” message?Thanks for any help you can provide.
Mark Eisner (for Paula Eisner)
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Hi Mark,
Yes I do see what you mean, very strange. Let’s go back to the beginning, when you said you had “deleted unwanted material at the bottom of some pages” can you explain what it was you did, and where?
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Hi there,
The problem is that you have all those pages set to the “Portfolio Page Template”
If a page is set to that template, it tells the site to show all published portfolio projects on that page. But you don’t have a single portfolio project published on your site.
Edit your pages, and set them to the default template, and that section will go away.
If you want to use the portfolio feature, you need to create portfolio projects, not pages, for your work. You can find info on how the portfolio feature works here:
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That works! And it wasn’t hard, once I got to the right menu.
I didn’t understand the differences between template, portfolio and gallery
Wordpress should provide a simple user guide (I see that they do have a definitions page). I have been involved with computers for 60 years (really) and use two other content managers, but WordPress is confusing to me.
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Hi paulaeisner,
I didn’t understand the differences between template, portfolio and gallery
In case you need it, I’ve found some documentation about page templates which may be useful:
https://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/page-options/#template
And we have documentation for galleries too:
https://en.support.wordpress.com/gallery/
Do let us know if you have any more questions though :)
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