Home Page with static info AND posts?

  • James

    (@jamestl2)


    16 years, 8 months ago

    Hello everyone,

    I’m looking for something similar to the issues raised in the thread (however it was resolved):
    http://wordpress.org/support/topic/123681
    [mod: every URL starts with http!]

    I want to have a static page with basic info of my site, along with a few (maybe 2 or 3 of the most recent) “news update posts” from a “site news” category I created, below it.

    (Maybe even hiding the “site news” category from my other categories list in my sidebar, however hiding it isn’t completely necessary for me.)

    Thanks

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  • Root

    (@root)

    16 years, 8 months ago

    Just hard code your stuff into index.php

    Thread Starter James

    (@jamestl2)

    16 years, 8 months ago

    I’m not that good at “hard coding” (Although I will if I have to), I thought there may be some function in the option menu (or plugin) that may allow these sort of features.

    Thread Starter James

    (@jamestl2)

    16 years, 8 months ago

    Will this plugin solve my problem?
    http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/page2cat/

    Although it says it is for developers only.

    Chris_K

    (@handysolo)

    16 years, 8 months ago

    Check Creating_a_Static_Front_Page perhaps?

    Thread Starter James

    (@jamestl2)

    16 years, 8 months ago

    OK that last post looks a little off (and I can’t edit it), I’ll try entering it again:

    <?php
$how_many=5; //How many posts do you want to show
require_once("http://www.toptenlisted.com/wp-config.php"); // Change this for your path to wp-config.php file ?>
<ol id="whats-new">
<?
$news=$wpdb->get_results("SELECT <code>ID</code>,<code>post_title</code> FROM $wpdb->posts
WHERE <code>post_status</code>= \"publish\" ORDER BY 'ID' DESC LIMIT ".$how_many);
foreach($news as $np){
print ("<li><a href=\"");
echo get_permalink($np->ID);
print ("\">$np->post_title</a></li>");
} ?>
</ol>
    Root

    (@root)

    16 years, 8 months ago

    I would simply open index.php and just before the loop gets started – I would post in my static content. Below it come my posts. In admin set the number of posts shown to 3. No hackery needed.

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