Static front page with mini loop

anyone – please?

What’s the problem? You have the link to the documentation. Read that and it tells you how to do it.

Or read these if you need more help:
https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Pages#Page_Templates
https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Pages#Creating_your_own_Page_Templates
https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Pages#Examples_of_Pages_and_Templates

Asked if people have done it successfully, for examples – and asked if you can have two different catagories coming on the same static page.

For different categories see the Multiple Loops at The_Loop page.

Also, be aware that in WP 2.2 you can set your frontpage from the admin panel. (which means the Codex might be a bit outdated…)

OK will do – ta.

Struggling with this… Been through loads of forum articles. Given the standard mini loop (below) what do i need to add to get it to look in a specific category?

<?php
$how_many=5; //How many posts do you want to show
require_once("wp-config.php"); // Change this for your path to wp-config.php file ?>

<ol id="whats-new">
<?
$news=$wpdb->get_results("SELECT <code>ID</code>,<code>post_title</code> FROM $wpdb->posts
WHERE <code>post_status</code>= \"publish\" ORDER BY 'ID' DESC LIMIT ".$how_many);
foreach($news as $np){
printf ("
<li><a>%s</a></li>
", $np->ID,$np->post_title);
}?>
</ol>

Thanks

Ironically – found a different example and it works…

<div id="left">
<h2>Latest News</h2>
<?php $posts = get_posts( "category=3&numberposts=5" ); ?>
<?php if( $posts ) : ?>
<ul>
<?php foreach( $posts as $post ) : setup_postdata( $post ); ?>
<li>

<a href=<?php the_permalink() ?>>
<?php the_title(); ?>
</a>
</li>
<?php endforeach; ?>
</ul>
<?php endif; ?>
</div>

<div id="right">
<h2>Latest blog</h2>
<?php $posts = get_posts( "category=4&numberposts=5" ); ?>
<?php if( $posts ) : ?>
<ul>
<?php foreach( $posts as $post ) : setup_postdata( $post ); ?>
<li>

<a href=<?php the_permalink() ?>>
<?php the_title(); ?>
</a>
</li>
<?php endforeach; ?>
</ul>
<?php endif; ?>

</div>