• Resolved kbeckett

    (@kbeckett)


    I have used the instructions provided here (https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Creating_a_Static_Front_Page) to create a static front page for my blog/website – https://broadcast.cm4draft.net/. I have a custom page template set up and assigned to the static Home page that allows me to use a different set of sidebar widgets and teasers at the top of the site. I do not want these to appear on any other pages. I am not a PHP coder, but I can usually find strings of code needed by digging around in files or searching the web.

    MY ULTIMATE QUESTION IS… How in the world can I force the homepage into displaying the blog feed instead of showing the PAGE content? I’m guessing there is a string of code I can place in my “custom-home.php” file that will tell WordPress to treat the page like the main blog feed rather than a page.

    Once this is working, my plan is to use this technique (https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Template_Tags/query_posts) to set the custom front page to tease only 2-3 most recent blog postings.

    Any ideas would be much appreciated – thanks!

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  • <?php query_posts('post_status=publish&posts_per_page=3&post_type=post');?>
    		<div id="container">
    <div id="content">
    <?php if ( ! have_posts() ) : ?>
    	<div id="post-0" class="post error404 not-found">
    		<h1 class="entry-title"><?php _e( 'Not Found', 'twentyten' ); ?></h1>
    		<div class="entry-content">
    			<p><?php _e( 'Apologies, but no results were found for the requested archive. Perhaps searching will help find a related post.', 'twentyten' ); ?></p>
    			<?php get_search_form(); ?>
    		</div><!-- .entry-content -->
    	</div><!-- #post-0 -->
    <?php endif; ?>
    	<?php if ( have_posts() ) : while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); ?>
    	<p><?php the_time('F j, Y \a\t g:i') ?></p>
    <h4><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h4>
    	<p><?php the_excerpt(); ?></p>
    	<?php endwhile; else: endif; ?>
    		</div></div><!-- #container -->
    Thread Starter kbeckett

    (@kbeckett)

    Thank you, jdavhar. Looks like that got me most of the way there! Now I just need to figure out how to get my theme styling to apply to it and I’ll be set. Thanks for your accurate assistance and quick reply. Cheers!

    Hi

    I have used this code – question is how do I limit the blog items to only onepage (frontpage) andybody know the code to do this?

    Iain

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