Hauntcast
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Posted 2 years ago #
I am a podcaster and I migrated from Loud Blog to Worpress a few days ago. I am trying to have my recent show appear on the home (static) page, but when I do this it doesn't show up in the feed. I realized that it has to be posted on the blog page to show in the feed, but I want the blog page just for random news, etc... I could choose to put the most recent post on the home page, but that won't always by the recent show that I want to be there. Is there a way that I can only have a certain category show on the home page and other to show on the blog page or do I need two separate blog pages?
my site http://www.hauntcast.net
If it is enough for you to let the recent podcast post appear in the sidebar then you can use one of the plugins e.g. http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/enhanced-recent-posts/.
But if you like to look into the code of your theme then this FAQ-answer maybe helpfully http://codex.wordpress.org/FAQ_Layout_and_Design#How_to_display_posts_in_a_Page.3F
There are many ways to show only posts of certain category on the blog page. The basic thing that you should know of is The Loop http://codex.wordpress.org/The_Loop#Exclude_Posts_From_Some_Category
That example uses the function query_posts():
http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/query_posts
Another function you could look for is in_category() (http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/in_category)
You can use these functions in your blog page or a customized page template.
