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1. imagex
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   I want to display excepts fomr the latest posts on my homepage with a thumbnail image next to it, exactly like how they are show on this website

   http://beyourbestasia.com/

   What is the easiest way to do this?

   (there is no widget box available in that area, so i gues it needs to be hard coded, or some shortcode withing the wordpress admin?

2. alchymyth
   The Sweeper
   Posted 1 year ago #

   most likely, you will need to hard-code this template;
   you probably need to edit index.php, or make a new front-page.php from a copy of index.php, and make the edits in there. http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Hierarchy#Front_Page_display

   details depend on your existing theme.

   you will need to use:
   the_post_thumbnail() http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/the_post_thumbnail
   the_excerpt() http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/the_excerpt

   and you have to be familiar with the loop
   http://codex.wordpress.org/The_Loop

   and have a good understanding of html and css.
   http://www.w3schools.com/

   link to your site?

3. imagex
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   thanks for the quick response, i am familiar with HTML, but thats about it, not php...

   Here is the page
   http://www.webdevworks.org/dev16/imagechina82/

   I got the post excepts to add there with a categoryshortcode plugin. But it seems that it is difficult to get thumbnails to display next to the post, do you know if i can do this with what i have already by modifying some code, maybe in the plugin code? or somthing?

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