rdmckelvey

Rev. Voodoo,

The “News and Events” header is purely editorial. The client will post content of the news/event flavor once the site goes live.

The front page is not static. It has a loop that came from another theme (I used the “beach” theme, which I’ve modified to suit my needs).

The front page is to show a limited number of posts. There’s currently a limit of the last three and an omission of category 17…

Here’s the code of the current index.php page:

<?php
/**
 * @package WordPress
 * @subpackage JRW
 */

get_header(); ?>

<?php get_sidebar(); ?>

<div id="main" class="home_main">
<div id="slider">
	<a href="https://www.jamesriverwriters.org" target="_blank"><img src="<?php bloginfo("template_url"); ?>/images/slide_1.jpg" alt="" /></a>
	<a href="https://www.jamesriverwriters.org" target="_blank"><img src="<?php bloginfo("template_url"); ?>/images/slide_2.jpg" alt="" /></a>
	<a href="https://www.jamesriverwriters.org" target="_blank"><img src="<?php bloginfo("template_url"); ?>/images/slide_3.jpg" alt="" /></a>
</div>
<div id="main_center_column">
  <h1>News and Events</h1>
  <?php /* Start the Loop */ ?>
  <!-- Start the Loop. -->
  <?php query_posts($query_string . '&cat=-17&showposts=3'); ?>
  <?php if ( have_posts() ) : while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); ?>

 	<div class="post">

 		<!-- Display the Title as a link to the Post's permalink. -->
 		<h2><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title_attribute(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h2>

 		<!-- Display the date -->
 		<small><?php the_time('F jS, Y') ?></small>

  		<div class="entry">
    		<?php the_content(); ?>
  		</div>

  		<p class="postmetadata">Posted in <?php the_category(', '); ?></p>
 	</div> <!-- closes post div box -->

 <?php endwhile; else: ?>
 	<p>Sorry, no posts matched your criteria.</p>
 <?php endif; ?>
 </div> <!-- closes center_column div box -->
 <div id="right_sidebar">
    <ul id="tweets">
      <?php if ( !function_exists('dynamic_sidebar') || !dynamic_sidebar('Right Sidebar') ) : ?>
				<?php endif; ?>
    </ul>
 </div><!-- closes right_sidebar box -->
</div>
<!--Extra DIV to house the floating illustration at the bottom of the page-->
  <div id="illustration_footer"></div>
<?php get_footer(); ?>