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1. BeemerMonkey
   Member
   Posted 5 years ago #
   

   I need to have a homepage/index page that is different from the regular blog pages. Here's what I'm looking for:

   ---------------
   Static Content
   blah blah blah
   blah blah blah
   blah blah blah
   ---------------
   1. Most recent
   "featured" post
   ---------------
   2. most recent post

   I'd like the static area to be editable from within WP's editor (that is I don't want to have to manually edit a php file and FTP it when I need to change the "static" content)

   I'd like section 1 to have the last post (excerpt) that I write that I give a category of "Featured"

   I'd like section 2 to have the most recent post (excerpt)

   I'm still pretty new at WP, but I have done some work with templates, etc. I'm just not groking how to combine everything to get the page I need.

   Ideas, leads, samples, etc.?

   Thanks!
   I see soem plugins that kind of address this, but I have a feeling that there's something to do with a custom page template.

2. Kafkaesqui
   
   Posted 5 years ago #
   

   The answer is template. Mainly this sort:

   http://codex.wordpress.org/Pages#Page_Templates

   You'd first want to set up a Page (Write > Write Page) to provide your "Static Content." You can then assign it as your home page under Options > Reading, Front Page. That takes care of the initial "static" part.

   With a copy of the standard page.php template (if your theme sports one) you can work in additional custom queries after the default post loop. An example of that looks like:

   http://wordpress.pastebin.ca/915874

   That is based on the Default theme's page.php. You may need to move things around, but the main element is the additional loops initialized through new WP_Query objects.

   References:
   http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/WP_Query
   http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/query_posts
   http://codex.wordpress.org/Pages
   http://codex.wordpress.org/The_Loop

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