Posted 2 years ago #
Hi to all.
Does anybody knows how to create a welcome page (static)?
[Top half of the webpage]
I want to create a general welcome page (like a business profile + services) with some links in which to divert to other links example social media buttons to link to those sites?
[Bottom half of the webpage]
I want this part to show the summary/spinet of my latest blog posts
Posted 2 years ago #
Make a page template: Page Templates « WordPress Codex
Use a custom query in the page template below your static text. This will show the excerpts from the latest 2 posts from the category "mycategory"; change to the name of your category:
<?php $my_query = new WP_Query('category_name=mycategory&showposts=2'); ?><?php while ($my_query->have_posts()) : $my_query->the_post(); ?><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" title="<?php the_title(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a><?php the_excerpt(); ?><?php endwhile; ?>
Set the page as a static page in Settings/Reading
Posted 2 years ago #
thanks for the hyperlink, i'll take a look and try to configure it.
i've got another question in response to your reply.
what if i want to allow excerpts of latest 5 posts from multiple categories instead of fixing it to just one?
is there any way to go about this?
Posted 2 years ago #
You can use as many instances of that new_query above in a page by changing the category, but to make the code cleaner and do other things, you need to work more with query_posts: WordPress › Support » How do I show posts from multiple categories using WP_Query?
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