customise which posts appear on homepage

Iain Taylor
(@iaintaylor)

10 years, 10 months ago

Question:
Is there a way to customise which posts appear on home page vs perhaps a blog section.
My goal is to have the home page filled with fixed posts vs a blog section that has a collection of all posts.
I read the forum item on having fixed home page items and understand that this part will have to be manual for now.

Idea:
– some themes have the ability to have a post “tag” or “category” type that the home page listens to in order to know which posts to post. E.g. using “featured” tag.
– possibly a way to add sections that list posts that have a specific “tag” or”category”

Notes:
– I have gone through current topics but could not find any that covered this
– I have set up and am using a Spun Child theme to make custom changes.
Thanks in advance.
Iain

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ludovicosecuela

(@ludovicosecuela)

10 years, 10 months ago

Yes Please I need this !!!

Please… i think “category” is the best way to customise which posts appear on home page.

paulwpxp

(@paulwp)

10 years, 10 months ago

Advanced Category Excluder
http://wordpress.org/plugins/advanced-category-excluder/

akseli_a

(@akseli_a)

10 years, 9 months ago

You have to add a few lines of code in ‘The Loop’ that runs as the index page loads. The file in question that must be modified is: wp-content/themes/spun/index.php

ORIGINAL:

get_header(); ?>

		<div id="primary" class="content-area">
			<div id="content" class="site-content" role="main">
			<?php if ( is_home() && ! is_paged() ) : ?>
				<h2 class="site-description"><?php bloginfo( 'description' ); ?></h2>
			<?php endif; ?>

			<?php if ( have_posts() ) : ?>

				<?php /* Start the Loop */ ?>

				<?php while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); ?>

and change that to:
MODIFIED:

<div id="primary" class="content-area">
			<div id="content" class="site-content" role="main">
			<?php if ( is_home() && ! is_paged() ) : ?>
				<h2 class="site-description"><?php bloginfo( 'description' ); ?></h2>
			<strong><?php endif; ?>
			<?php if ( is_home() ) {
			query_posts($query_string . '&cat=-3');</strong>
			}
			?>
			<?php if ( have_posts() ) : ?>

				<?php /* Start the Loop */ ?>

				<?php while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); ?>

What you want to modify is: ‘&cat=-3’); and add -3,-5,-8… etc

More detailed instructions: http://codex.wordpress.org/The_Loop

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