How to create a somewhat static site?

  • chrisf79

    (@chrisf79)


    15 years, 9 months ago

    I’m going to post a ton of Microsoft Office tutorials online that I have written. The thing is, the site won’t update often so what I’d like to do is have a static front page that shows all of the categories and every tutorial under that category. I’ve looked at the static front pages a bit online but I don’t understand how I’d have it display all of the categories and all of the posts on it’s own. Plus, how do I tell it which categories to show in which order? Any advice would be greatly appreciated if you’ve done something like this in the past.

    Thanks!

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  • Micah Wood

    (@woodent)

    15 years, 9 months ago

    Sounds like you are really after a dynamic front page. If I understand correctly, you want to have the front page automatically update when you add new tutorials.

    If you are posting tutorials as posts (not pages), you can simply check the ‘Front Page Displays… -> Your latest posts’ box in the ‘Reading’ section under the ‘Settings’ menu in the admin area. This will show the latest posts first.

    If you are wanting to show a list of categories with the latest post under each category, you will want to use a template on a static front page. The template will be something that a developer codes for you to display things the way you want.

    Thread Starter chrisf79

    (@chrisf79)

    15 years, 9 months ago

    I’ve developed a lot of templates myself. I just don’t understand how I’d have it iterate through the categories and display something like:

    <h2>Category 1</h2>

      …posts

    <h2>Category 2</h2>

      …posts
    Micah Wood

    (@woodent)

    15 years, 9 months ago

    You will probably want to use multiple loops…
    http://www.catswhocode.com/blog/multiple-wordpress-loops

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