Static Font Page – Are posts/pages required?

Thank you for your help, Balint! Great video – it has a patient pace and even as a beginner, I am following you due to your thorough explanations. However, I am part way through the tutorial and have run into a problem. I created the child theme as you indicated but when I tried to see if WordPress would recognize it under Appearance\Themes, it is not in my list. I am using a Mac with TextWrangler. Any thoughts about why WordPress may not be seeing it?

Path to the child theme:
/Users/sts/Documents/Documents/wordpress/wp-content/themes/travelify/travelify-child/style.css

The style.css is as follows:
/*
Theme Name: Travelify Child
Theme URI: http://colorawesomeness.com/themes/travelify/
Author: Color Awesomeness
Author URI: http://colorawesomeness.com/
Description: Travelify is a clan, simple and fully responsive WordPress WooCommerce theme that looks awesome on any device. It adjusts automatically to any screen size including tablets and smartphones as well as Retina displays. Theme is built using HTML5 / CSS3 and is SEO friendly. This WordPress theme was built with travel, adventures, languages and nature in mind but it can be used for anything so be creative and unleash its full potential in blogging, ecommerce, business and other websites. Along the awesome design this theme is customizable via a simple but yet powerful theme options. Some of the nicest features are featured post slider, social icons, custom logo, translation ready and many more. This theme out-of-the-box plays nicely with WooCommerce, Breadcrumb NavXT, WP-PageNavi, Contact Form 7 and other popular plugins. Theme available in English, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Spanish, Dutch and Chinese.
Version: 1.3.7
License: GNU General Public License v2 or later
License URI: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html
Tags: white, light, green , custom-background, custom-header, custom-menu, flexible-width, featured-images, full-width-template, left-sidebar, right-sidebar, one-column, two-columns, three-columns, rtl-language-support, sticky-post, theme-options, threaded-comments, translation-ready, photoblogging, holiday
Text Domain: travelify
Template: travelify
*/

@import url(“../travelify/style.css”);

Thank you Balint. I apologize that I did not follow the instructions correctly. I have made that change and have successfully activated the child theme. I confirmed this because I can see the following:

Current Theme
Travelify Child
By Color AwesomenessVersion 1.3.7
This child theme requires its parent theme, Travelify.

Before I activated the child theme, in the style.css file in the travelify-child folder I inserted the text you have mentioned initially as follows:

/*
Theme Name: Travelify Child
Theme URI: http://colorawesomeness.com/themes/travelify/
Author: Color Awesomeness
Author URI: http://colorawesomeness.com/
Description: Travelify is a clan, simple and fully responsive WordPress WooCommerce theme that looks awesome on any device. It adjusts automatically to any screen size including tablets and smartphones as well as Retina displays. Theme is built using HTML5 / CSS3 and is SEO friendly. This WordPress theme was built with travel, adventures, languages and nature in mind but it can be used for anything so be creative and unleash its full potential in blogging, ecommerce, business and other websites. Along the awesome design this theme is customizable via a simple but yet powerful theme options. Some of the nicest features are featured post slider, social icons, custom logo, translation ready and many more. This theme out-of-the-box plays nicely with WooCommerce, Breadcrumb NavXT, WP-PageNavi, Contact Form 7 and other popular plugins. Theme available in English, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Spanish, Dutch and Chinese.
Version: 1.3.7
License: GNU General Public License v2 or later
License URI: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html
Tags: white, light, green , custom-background, custom-header, custom-menu, flexible-width, featured-images, full-width-template, left-sidebar, right-sidebar, one-column, two-columns, three-columns, rtl-language-support, sticky-post, theme-options, threaded-comments, translation-ready, photoblogging, holiday
Text Domain: travelify
Template: travelify
*/

@import url(“../travelify/style.css”);

.home #content {
display: none;
}

When I visit my site, the main front page still shows the “No Posts Found” message. Any thoughts? Thank you again for your help!

Those are great questions. You are correct that I do not have any posts – everything right now is set to be a page. The current setting is set to do a static page but I did not select anything from the drop-down options. My thought was that I did not really want any posts to appear below my featured slider since I am using my site less as a blog and more as a website to steer people through the menus instead. To me, it’s just a little “cleaner” that way. Does that help? You can feel free to tell me that’s not a good idea. It was just my initial thought so it took me down the path of trying to remove that “No Posts Found.” message. If the approach we used will not work, that’s ok because you have been very helpful in creating the child theme which I am certain I will need and use going forward as well.

Your crazy idea is very creative. The post ID is 1539. It has a single space in both the title and body.

Thank you! This is so close to resolving my issue. The only thing that’s left now on the bottom of the page is a box that I don’t remember seeing before that has my mailto address, date, an icon for uncategorized and an icon for no comments with a button to read more. Is that what you are referring to that cannot be deleted or is this something else that I have an option to turn off? I am sorry to keep pestering you on this. I really appreciate your help! I don’t mind if there is white space – I would just rather remove the box that I described that appears to be something new or something I had not noticed previously. Thanks!