If I’m understanding your question correctly, go to:
Alex King’s WordPress Hacks/Plugins page
Download WP Style Switcher and install it. Follow the directions and you can switch to your “downgraded” page whenever you want.
Sorry, I wasn’t very descriptive in my question. I wasn’t trying to switch the style, just finding a way to get a digest of recent posts up on the home page. Let me try again to ask my question.
On the church’s home page, I want to have a portion of the page show the five most recent posts in one category (“news”) and then another portion display the most recent post in another categorty (“daily devotion”). I thought the best way to do this would be to have a PHP include call to templates within wordpress – templates that would only serve to dig out the posts from different categories. My lame attempt at a CMS, I guess.
Is this possible, or is there a better solution?
These sound about right to achieve what you want. You’ll have to look at them more closely:
Same Cat Posts
Comment and Post plugings
Related Entries
All these can be found on the WordPress Wiki Plugin section (also check the Hack Section).
