Yes it is possible and I have managed to do this on my site whihc is in development.
https://wordpress2015.wilddogworld.com/wordpress/
To do this, best practice is to create a child theme and then modify the ‘extras.php’ file. Change line 105
`if ( ! is_front_page() || ! is_page_template( ‘home-page.php’ ) ) {
return;
}`
…by adding a new php home page template in you child page folder and giving your own name. Modify the line of code above to match.
eg. my-homepage.php
The code would look like this:
<?php
/**
* Template Name: My Homepage
*
* @package refur
*/
get_header(); ?>
<div id="primary" class="content-area col-xs-12">
<main id="main" class="site-main" role="main">
<?php while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); ?>
<?php get_template_part( 'template-parts/content', 'page' ); ?>
<?php
// If comments are open or we have at least one comment, load up the comment template.
if ( comments_open() || get_comments_number() ) :
comments_template();
endif;
?>
<?php endwhile; // End of the loop. ?>
</main><!-- #main -->
</div><!-- #primary -->
<?php get_footer(); ?>
All good, you end up with the featured content and your own homepage content rather then some posts. The featured content is injected into the header area by some other php code elsewhere in the theme.
However, I ran into an issue whereby the theme does not seem to recognise the modified extras.php file in the child theme folder so I have had to modify the parent page to make this change. Not ideal. I am not a code warrior by any means and it has taken me hours to figure this lot out!
I’d like to hear form teFOX on a better way of doing this…
