Feature Custom number of “Recent Posts”

  • Hello,
    On the Home Page, I have featured 3 posts horizonatally. Below that there are the “Recent Posts”. I have read that these can be removed using the following code:

    #front-page-recent-posts {
    display: none;
    }

    However, I would actually like to featured 3 of these posts on the home page. (So three horizontal and then 3 vertical below).

    I tried replacing “none” with “three” or “3” in the code above. No luck with that. Does anyone know I could could make this work? Seems like either I have a long list of featured posts or none…

    Thanks!

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  • Hi @saratcollins,

    (So three horizontal and then 3 vertical below).

    Just to check I’ve understood correctly — it sounds like you want to increase the number of posts displayed on the homepage, in a grid of 3×3 (9 in total). It’s likely this change would need to be made with custom code but I can check to see if there is another way to do it, once I know for definite.

    Can you also send a link to the site you are working on, so I can see what you have already?

    I tried replacing “none” with “three” or “3” in the code above. No luck with that.

    CSS only really alters the appearance of a page, rather than adding functionality. So the code above won’t work for the purpose of increasing the number of posts. The display property is mainly used for controlling how elements sit with one another or hiding them.

    Thread Starter saratcollins

    (@saratcollins)

    Hi Gemma,

    Thanks for your reply and for clarifying.

    My explanation didn’t explain the situation very well. I am happy with just three featured content blocks on the home page. Don’t want a grid. The problem is that for the “Recent Posts” that appear just below the featured content blocks, I only want to show three recent posts. However, the theme does not show a way to give a custom number of recent posts.

    The site is set to private and I’m working on it for someone else so I can’t send it unfortunately. But I haven’t made any custom changes so it looks like in the demo.

    Hi @saratcollins,

    The problem is that for the “Recent Posts” that appear just below the featured content blocks, I only want to show three recent posts. However, the theme does not show a way to give a custom number of recent posts.

    Oh I see, thanks for clarifying that ?? Ixion is designed to display the five most recent posts on the homepage. Changing that number would require some theme modification — there isn’t a setting that will change this number unfortunately.

    If you need to make theme modifications, I recommend creating a child theme so that future updates don’t overwrite the changes you make.

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