Title: Index.php not showing posts
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Index.php not showing posts

 *  Resolved [rdmckelvey](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rdmckelvey/)
 * (@rdmckelvey)
 * [14 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/indexphp-not-showing-posts/)
 * When I came in to work this morning a site I’m working on suddenly shows no posts
   on the home page (index.php). It only displays the “Sorry no posts matched your
   criteria” message. I swear it worked fine at the end of the work day yesterday.
 * I’ve looked at the page using an array of other themes from the WordPress install
   and it’s the same – no posts on the home page. If I choose a category or search
   for post content, the posts show just fine in all the other page templates.
 * I’ve read some older posts that mention issues with permalinks, but I’ve always
   had this set to the default.
 * I updated to WordPress 3.3, but I’m sure the index.php page worked, at least 
   for a while, after that.
 * The development site is at: [http://www.jamesriverwriters.dreamhosters.com](http://www.jamesriverwriters.dreamhosters.com)
 * Any thoughts are very much appreciated!

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 *  [Rev. Voodoo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rvoodoo/)
 * (@rvoodoo)
 * [14 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/indexphp-not-showing-posts/#post-2475541)
 * I notice the page says ‘news and events’
 * Are you using some sort of query for the front page in index.php?
    Have you assigned
   a static front page in settings->reading?
 * Or is the front page supposed to show all posts?
 *  Thread Starter [rdmckelvey](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rdmckelvey/)
 * (@rdmckelvey)
 * [14 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/indexphp-not-showing-posts/#post-2475553)
 * Rev. Voodoo,
 * The “News and Events” header is purely editorial. The client will post content
   of the news/event flavor once the site goes live.
 * The front page is not static. It has a loop that came from another theme (I used
   the “beach” theme, which I’ve modified to suit my needs).
 * The front page is to show a limited number of posts. There’s currently a limit
   of the last three and an omission of category 17…
 * Here’s the code of the current index.php page:
 *     ```
       <?php
       /**
        * @package WordPress
        * @subpackage JRW
        */
   
       get_header(); ?>
   
       <?php get_sidebar(); ?>
   
       <div id="main" class="home_main">
       <div id="slider">
       	<a href="http://www.jamesriverwriters.org" target="_blank"><img src="<?php bloginfo("template_url"); ?>/images/slide_1.jpg" alt="" /></a>
       	<a href="http://www.jamesriverwriters.org" target="_blank"><img src="<?php bloginfo("template_url"); ?>/images/slide_2.jpg" alt="" /></a>
       	<a href="http://www.jamesriverwriters.org" target="_blank"><img src="<?php bloginfo("template_url"); ?>/images/slide_3.jpg" alt="" /></a>
       </div>
       <div id="main_center_column">
         <h1>News and Events</h1>
         <?php /* Start the Loop */ ?>
         <!-- Start the Loop. -->
         <?php query_posts($query_string . '&cat=-17&showposts=3'); ?>
         <?php if ( have_posts() ) : while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); ?>
   
        	<div class="post">
   
        		<!-- Display the Title as a link to the Post's permalink. -->
        		<h2><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title_attribute(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h2>
   
        		<!-- Display the date -->
        		<small><?php the_time('F jS, Y') ?></small>
   
         		<div class="entry">
           		<?php the_content(); ?>
         		</div>
   
         		<p class="postmetadata">Posted in <?php the_category(', '); ?></p>
        	</div> <!-- closes post div box -->
   
        <?php endwhile; else: ?>
        	<p>Sorry, no posts matched your criteria.</p>
        <?php endif; ?>
        </div> <!-- closes center_column div box -->
        <div id="right_sidebar">
           <ul id="tweets">
             <?php if ( !function_exists('dynamic_sidebar') || !dynamic_sidebar('Right Sidebar') ) : ?>
       				<?php endif; ?>
           </ul>
        </div><!-- closes right_sidebar box -->
       </div>
       <!--Extra DIV to house the floating illustration at the bottom of the page-->
         <div id="illustration_footer"></div>
       <?php get_footer(); ?>
       ```
   
 *  [Rev. Voodoo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rvoodoo/)
 * (@rvoodoo)
 * [14 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/indexphp-not-showing-posts/#post-2475562)
 * If you comment out that query, do you get posts displaying?
 * We can at least try to narrow down the suspect (Other interference vs. query)
 *  Thread Starter [rdmckelvey](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rdmckelvey/)
 * (@rdmckelvey)
 * [14 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/indexphp-not-showing-posts/#post-2475565)
 * In writing that last post, it got me wondering what would happen if I didn’t 
   limit the query_string to 3 posts and posts not from category 17. When I removed
   the query_posts line it started working.
 * I added the limit of three posts back in and that worked.
 * Now to see if I can successfully omit a category from the posts on the home page.
 * I still wonder what changed in the past 24 hours… weird!
 *  [Rev. Voodoo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rvoodoo/)
 * (@rvoodoo)
 * [14 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/indexphp-not-showing-posts/#post-2475567)
 * you may be able to just limit posts and exclude the cat without the query string….
   not sure
 *  Thread Starter [rdmckelvey](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rdmckelvey/)
 * (@rdmckelvey)
 * [14 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/indexphp-not-showing-posts/#post-2475595)
 * I haven’t untangled this mess entirely, but what I’m not seeing is that (I think)
   one of my plug-ins is wreaking havoc. I did reflexively update a bunch of plugins
   yesterday, one of which was WP-MeetUp. If I deactivate that, my other posts show
   up. If I reactivate it, all I see are a sampling of posts fed from the MeetUp
   page.
 * What’s weird is that in my posts page on the dashboard, it says I have 43 posts
   of the category ‘event’ which came from MeetUp.com. If I click on the “43” or
   the category “events” it says there are no posts.
 * The ‘posts” page says I have only the seven posts I entered manually to test 
   things out.
 * The WP-Meetup calendar says there are no events, yet the plugin feeds several
   MeetUp events to the home page.
 * I’m baffled!

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