Title: Featured Articles Plugin – help with php
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Featured Articles Plugin – help with php

 *  [ukmgranger](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ukmgranger/)
 * (@ukmgranger)
 * [16 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/featured-articles-plugin-help-with-php/)
 * Hi all,
 * I am trying to get the [Featured Articles Plugin](http://www.php-help.ro/mootools-12-javascript-examples/wordpress-271-featured-articles-plugin/)
   working on my site, but I have run into some difficulties.
 * The site is here – [TrueScale](http://www.truescale.co.uk)
 * Problem 1:
    I am trying to get the plugin to appear on the homepage (In settings-
   >reading I have the front page set to ‘home’). To do this the relevant php code
   for the plugin is as follows:
 *     ```
       function wp_featured_articles(){
       	global $FA_default, $FA_displayed;
       	if(!is_front_page() || $FA_displayed > 0) return ;	
   
       	$FA_displayed = 1;
       	$options = get_option('FA_options', $FA_default);
       	switch ($options['display_order']){
       		case 1:
       			$order = 'ASC';
       		break;
   
       		case 2:
       			$order = 'DESC';
       		break;
       	}
       ```
   
 * You will see that there is an if(!is_front_page() that should make this happen.
 * The problem is that if you go to ‘www.truescale.co.uk’ you don’t see the plugin.
   If you go to ‘www.truescale.co.uk/home’ it appears. Obviously this no good for
   me.
 * Problem 2:
    As well as making the plugin appear on the homepage, I also need 
   it to only grab articles from a certain category. I have been told that I can
   do this by adding ‘if(!is_category(’cat_id’) || $FA_displayed > 0 ) return;’ 
   to the code.
 * The problem is that I am still learning php, so dont know the syntax for adding
   this new set of code to the other code.
 * Heeeeeeeelp!! 😉

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