Have you tried setting the 5 posts to ‘sticky’? That should make them show up at the top.
That isn’t what I’m trying to do. I’m trying to display static content above the recent posts.
Can no one answer this? It seems like an easy thing to do! 😛
The problem is that the exact answer depends on your theme. It will probably involve coding a secondary loop above the main loop. The tutorials should show you sample code that would be inserted above the main loop.
At the moment, I can’t see anything on your site except ‘This site will be coming soon’, so I can’t tell what theme you are using. If it is a free theme, I might be able to give more specific help once I can look at the code. If it is a paid theme, you will need to contact the theme supplier for help.
The website was taken offline so we can get all the backend stuff done before launch. It was the Mystique theme. I would just like to be able to either:
1. Insert code into the post page to be able to specify php/html code, i.e. display static information above the normal recent posts page
or
2. Insert code onto a static page that displays mystique themed recent posts with excepts, author, title.
Code inside posts is not usually executed, only code in templates. You can install a plugin such as Exec-PHP, but that involves disabling the Visual editor in WordPress.
Is your ‘normal recent posts page’ a true static page? If so, you probably need to change the template as I described in my earlier response. The template is probably page.php.
If the ‘normal recent posts page’ is the ‘blog’ page, the template is probably index.php.
<?php wp_reset_query();
query('showposts=5');
while(have_posts()): the_post();
// put here post stuff
endwhile;
?>
Try once.
No, I’m trying to get the normal recent posts page to be static but I don’t know how to display the recent posts code on a static page, being themed. I’ll try chinmoy’s idea but I’m pretty sure it will just display text, with no themes.. I.e.
Title 1
Short excerpt blah blah
title 2
short excerpt blah blah
With no theme (header being in a box, large font, author name in italics, etc).
OK. Start with a copy of index.php named front-page.php. Then change the first few lines from this:
<?php
/* Mystique/digitalnature */
get_header();
?>
to this:
<?php
/*
Template Name: front-page
*/
/* Mystique/digitalnature */
get_header();
?>
Change these lines from this:
<?php
if (have_posts()):
while (have_posts()):
to this:
<?php
query_posts('posts_per_page=5');
if (have_posts()):
while (have_posts()):
Create a blank Page and assign the new front-page template to it.
In Admin->Settings->Reading, choose ‘Front page displays:’ ‘A static page’ and set your new page in the dropdown box. Save the changes and you should be done – a static front page that displays the 5 latest posts.
This seems to be a step in the right direction! I have added the code and the posts show up, however, my static content that I entered into the page editing screen in the admin panel does not show up.
I tried it the other way: Add a page in the admin menu, leave as default template, installed Exec-PHP and inserted the following code to the page:
This is the test home static information! Above!
<?php
query_posts(‘posts_per_page=5’);
while (have_posts()):
the_post();
mystique_post();
endwhile;
?>
Below!!
And now the page looks like this:
http://lostmodernist.com/wordpress/?page_id=4
Close, but I’m not quite sure what’s happening to make it display like that.
http://lostmodernist.com/wordpress/?page_id=6
Test Home 2 Displays this frontpage.php script. As you can see, there is no static information present (static information was inserted to the page via admin panel, page publish)
<?php
/*
Template Name: 2 columns page (right sidebar, default) (mod)
*/
/* Mystique/digitalnature */
get_header();
?>
<!– main content: primary + sidebar(s) –>
<div id=”main”>
<div id=”main-inside” class=”clear-block”>
<!– primary content –>
<div id=”primary-content”>
<div class=”blocks”>
<?php do_action(‘mystique_before_primary’); ?>
<?php
query_posts(‘posts_per_page=5’);
if (have_posts()):
while (have_posts()):
the_post();
mystique_post();
endwhile;
mystique_pagenavi();
else: ?>
<h1 class=”title error”><?php _e(“No posts found”,”mystique”); ?></h1>
<p><?php _e(“Sorry, but you are looking for something that isn’t here.”,”mystique”); ?></p>
<?php endif; ?>
<?php do_action(‘mystique_after_primary’); ?>
</div>
</div>
<!– /primary content –>
<?php get_sidebar(); ?>
</div>
</div>
<!– /main content –>
<?php get_footer(); ?>
I finally nailed it down.. Whew!
Using a standard template, I needed to download a php execution plugin. After that, I can enter in PHP code directly in the admin page editor. Putting in the following code yields the results shown here (static information shown both below and above recent post content)
http://lostmodernist.com/wordpress/?page_id=4
This is the test home static information! Above!
<?php
query_posts(‘posts_per_page=5’);
while (have_posts()):
the_post();
mystique_post();
endwhile;
wp_reset_query();
?>
Below!!
vtxyzzy, your code helped me understand what needed to be injected into the post. The only thing I was missing earlier, when my page was displaying multiple posts of the same thing, was the wp_reset_query(); command. All is well. I hope this can help out someone else in the future!
