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1. tjobbe
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   OK, what I'm trying to do is have a PAGE as my home page in wordpress, this I have enabled in the settings.

   On the home page I would also like to show the latest three posts from a specific category. There will not be a sidebar.

   I only want the three posts to show up on the home page, along with whatever content the home page has. Is this possible?

   So I'd have a conditional statement that says, "if it's the home page, show the content AND the latest 3 posts from category 3" OR "just show the page content"

   This code sort of does that, but somehow shows whatever is in my ELSE statement too.

   What have I done wrong?

   <?php get_header(); ?>
   
   <?php if (have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
   
   <?php if (is_front_page()) { ?>
   	<div id="content">
   		<div class="entry">
   			<h2><?php the_title(); ?></h2>
   			<?php the_content('<p class="serif">Read the rest of this page &raquo;</p>'); ?>
   		</div>
   	</div>
   	<?php
       $blog_query = 'showposts=3&cat=3&paged='.$paged;
   	$posts = query_posts($blog_query);
   	while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
   
   	<?php endwhile; ?>
   <?php } else { ?>
   <div id="content">
   	<div class="entry">
   	<h2><?php the_title(); ?></h2>
   	<?php the_content('<p class="serif">Read the rest of this page &raquo;</p>'); ?>
   	</div>
   </div>
   <?php } ?>
   
   <?php endwhile; endif; ?>
   
   <?php get_footer(); ?>

2. tjobbe
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Right, so I've now edited the above code slightly, and it does give me pages as I want them - except for the home page.

   The home page now shows me an empty <div id="sidebar"></div> as well as a populated one - which is what I want.

   I don't understand why I'm getting this empty sidebar div in my html?

   Sorry, testing locally so unable to provide a link, but here's my page.php:

   <?php get_header(); ?>
   
   <div id="content">
   	<?php if (have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
   
   	<?php if (is_front_page()) { ?>
   	<h2><?php the_title(); ?></h2>
   	<?php the_content('<p class="serif">Read the rest of this page &raquo;</p>'); ?>
   	<?php
   	$blog_query = 'showposts=3&cat=3&paged='.$paged;
   	$posts = query_posts($blog_query);
   	while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
   </div>
   <div id="sideBar">
   	<?php endwhile; ?>
   	<?php } else { ?>
   
   	<h2><?php the_title(); ?></h2>
   	<?php the_content('<p class="serif">Read the rest of this page &raquo;</p>'); ?>
   	<?php } ?>
   
   	<?php endwhile; endif; ?>
   	</div>
   
   <?php get_footer(); ?>

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