Creating a Blog *below* a page

yes you can. you need to put two WordPress loops on the page. The second one is a custom loop that includes posts from various categories – the blog posts.

You can either modify the main page.php template or create a custom page template.

custom page templates:
https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Pages#Creating_Your_Own_Page_Templates

WordPress loop: https://codex.www.ads-software.com/The_Loop

custom query loop:
https://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/04/13/define-your-own-wordpress-loop-using-wp_query/

query posts – how to set parameters for the custom loop:
https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Template_Tags/query_posts

lots of reading to do. Its not hard to do once you get the gist of what is required and how WordPress works. For the most part you can copy and paste code from examples and make a few modifications.

Hi stvwlf

Sorry for taking so long to respond.
Had to deek out of construction to attend to a flood of maintenance.

Thanks so much for what looks like a really useful response.

I’ll dig in to the material and see what I come up with.

Best wishes

Nik

Hi.

I worked my way through all the links above and then settled on using the Plugin ‘AStickyPostOrderER’ to control the top post of a category.

Is it now possible to customize a single post in a category blog feed?

Is it now possible to customize a single post in a category blog feed?

I don’t understand what you are asking. What are you trying to do?

Hi stvwlf

Thanks for the quick response!

Here’s an example:
https://www.kairoscampaigns.org/test/wordpress/?cat=3

I have used ‘AStickyPostOrderER’ to ‘pin’ ‘What is Sustainability?’ to the top of the blog because it is a global statement of what this entire section of the site is about.
As such I’d like, on this post only, to get rid of the date, author, etc.

Is that possible?

Thanks!

Hi

since you only want to remove line from one post, you can use a line of CSS that is hard wired to the post id # of that one post.

#content .post-4 .entry-title { display: none; }

add that line to your stylesheet.

WordPress assigns a class of post-4 to that post since its post id # is 4. Then we remove the display of that post’s author/date line using CSS.

See if that works for you. If it doesn’t, leave the line in your stylesheet so I can see what the problem is.

Hi stvwlf.

This is pretty brilliant.
I’m piling through widgets and more general theme stuff right now but will get back to this.

If I can apply special styles to posts based on id# that’s spectacular.

Thanks.

Nik

Hi stvwlf.

I just upgraded to 1.3 + StudioPress Genesis to 1.6 and AStickyPostOrderER just failed.

Anyway, still working on getting an html post to display above a category blog.
I’ve read through all the pages recommended above a couple of times but am still not really clear on the steps I need to take.

I have created a copy of the main page_blog.php in a child theme directory but I’m not sure what to do now.

Any help would be appreciated.

Nik

Since you are using Genesis I suggest you ask the question on their support forum. Don’t ask how to get that plugin working. Present what you are trying to accomplish (two loops on one page) and ask what method they recommend. Genesis has its own ways of accomplishing things.

You can describe the condition that led you to the plugin that’s no longer working. Ask how to accomplish it in Genesis without needing a plugin.

Thanks.

I’ve sent them the same problem.

I sent the prob re. the plugin to the developer of the plugin, but will see if Genesis has a way of sticking a specific post in a category archive to the top.

NIk