Home page exerpt, with blog page

  • Can someone point me in the right direction.

    I want an exerpt of the latest post on the home page, but an index of posts in domain.com/blog/

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  • Thread Starter stilfx

    (@stilfx)

    Figured it out.

    1) Create a new page called home, save it.
    2) Create a new page template, and name it home.
    3) Update the home page to use the home template.
    4) Settings > Reading > Select the home page as your front page.
    5) Add this code to your home page template to pull the latest post

    <?php $recentPosts = new WP_Query(); $recentPosts->query('showposts=1'); ?>
<?php while ($recentPosts->have_posts()) : $recentPosts->the_post(); ?>
<h2><a href="<?php the_permalink();?>"><?php the_title();?></a></h2>
<div id="exerpt"><?php the_excerpt(); ?></div>
<p class="readMore"><a href="<?php the_permalink();?>">more &raquo;</a></p>
<?php endwhile; ?>

    *Notice this code it set up to only show the excerpt of the latest post (the_excerpt(); and showposts=1).

    Greetings.

    Thanks for the help. Can you or anyone answer a few questions I am running up against?

    1. I add:

    <?php
/*
Template Name: Home
*/
?>

    to the page.php, but don’t understand the next step to creating a unique page template. What is the step I am missing?

    2. Can I move the excerpt to different part of the page?

    Thanks,

    Sara

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