overdoseonjenny
Member
Posted 6 months ago #
Hi,
My website is http://obsessandconsume.com/. I have been trying to figure out for a few days how to get the front page to list thumbnail, excerpt, title, date, comments, etc. by CATEGORY. For example, if you look at my sidebar, I have like 6 categories. When people first come to the site, I'd like them to see, 6 small sections with category title atop each section. I have it set up very well now, it's just NOT by category. I am looking to show just the very latest post from each cateogry on my homepage. As you can see, I'm almost done, I already enabled the thumbnails and excerpts, now all I need is to have the category be at the top of each and for it to show just recent posts by category. hope that makes sense. someone helppp.
There are 2 typical ways to do this.
1. Use a feed parser like Simple Pie (you can get a plugin for it) to pull the most recent entry from your specific category RSS feeds and then display them each in their own div. I don't really recommend it because if your RSS feed has an error, your front page will also display an error.
2. The other method is to create a custom loop in each of the divs (and be sure to reset the loop!).
You can get some good examples on custom loops in the Codex.....
http://codex.wordpress.org/Class_Reference/WP_Query
overdoseonjenny
Member
Posted 6 months ago #
Thank you so much for replying. Hmm.. I am not a pro at this, there's lots of codes on the page you referenced.. any step by step pages? codex is awesome but reading their instructions is like reading a damn history book.
