tylerjay

I appreciate your help! It led me to find the culprit!
Under Settings->Reading I had to designate “posts page” for my specified blog page because my front page is static.

Yaaaaaay!

Weird, posts arent showing under default theme with all plugins deactivated. Tried <?php wp_reset_query(); ?> before the loop with no luck. ??

Any other ideas?

Unfortunately that doesnt fix it.

Sidebar.php is bare as a baby’s bottom, unaltered from starkers.

Brilliant. Worked great. I even got this to work..

<?php
				   $args=array(
					'category__not_in' => array(16),
					'showposts' => 1,
					'caller_get_posts'=>1
					);
				  $lastposts = get_posts($args);
                 foreach($lastposts as $post) :
                    setup_postdata($post);
                 ?>

Cool, thanks for the plugin! The ID i need to specify is 16…all of the other categories are lumped into 1

still cant figure it out :/

Ok I found the code I was looking for query_posts('category_name=Events');
I’m just not sure where to input within

<?php
				 $lastposts = get_posts('numberposts=1');
                 foreach($lastposts as $post) :
                    setup_postdata($post);
                 ?>
                 <h2><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>" id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h2>
                 <?php the_excerpt(); ?>

                 <?php endforeach; ?>

Thanks for that, however i couldn’t get it to work even with modifying the array. I actually couldnt get a post to display with that at all.
I did get one display by

<?php
	 //get 3 posts from category 5 or 7, display title
				  $args=array(
				  'showposts' => 1,
				  'category__in' => array(1,2),
				  'caller_get_posts'=>1
				  );
				 $lastposts = get_posts('numberposts=1');
                 foreach($lastposts as $post) :
                    setup_postdata($post);
                 ?>
                 <h2><a>" id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h2>
                 <?php the_excerpt(); ?>

                 <?php endforeach; ?>

However im pretty sure category code isnt doing anything. Is there a way i can literally define which category? Like ‘Events’ or ‘News’

Still cant seem to find the right information, any ideas?

Ok I figured it out. I needed to add.
<?php /*Template Name: Homepage */ ?> to the respective page and then go into dashboard > pages > “attributes” and find the “Homepage” template.

Hmm, still doesnt seem to be working. I’m pretty sure only home.php is automatically recognized by wordpress.

Do you know how to add php files to be loaded per page? Like have a blog.php and about.php for /blog and /about?

That did it. Thank you sir!

Go to “Site Admin” then “Appearance” tab on the left then Themes. Click a theme then click activate.