Thread Starter
otoris
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For convenience, here are the links for the Arras Demo and the Church Demo.
To me the easiest way to add a blog page to a theme that doesn’t have one is:
1) create a WP page that has a page slug of blog – you can title it Blog or anything else
2) go to Admin / Settings / Reading
select A Static Page
leave Front Page alone, even if its not set
set Posts Page to the page Blog you created
then you have a posts page.
Be aware that StudioPress themes use certain categories for home page sections. You will have to add a query_posts line to the themes’s index.php page, before the WordPress loop, and exclude the categories that are displayed on the home page.
http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/query_posts
Another way you could handle it, rather than excluding homepage categories: if you are going to have categories that apply only to blog posts, create a category called Blog. Then create your blog categories as children of the root category called Blog. Then your query_posts can include only the blog category, which will also includes its child categories.
If the blog category is 16, the code would look like this:
<?php $paged = (get_query_var('paged')) ? get_query_var('paged') : 1;
query_posts("cat=16&paged=$paged"); ?>
that goes before the WP loop which typically starts with this
<?php if (have_posts()) : ?>
<?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
The code about paged is necessary for the next page / prev page links at the bottom of the blog page to work correctly.
Thread Starter
otoris
(@otoris)
Okay, so from what I gathered from that post was that Studiopress pulls off the CMS/Magazine style front page through a Category page? Not the actual index.php? I’ve tried what you’ve suggested before, but it basically inserts a copy of index.php (with Featured Content Gallery and other plugins) on the blog page I’ve setup. But I think I see how you’re doing it and will give it a shot on my from scratch theme.
Thanks!
most of their themes use home.php as the homepage
