There’s no displayed posts dates on your Home page, so I’m a bit confused as to what you want to change.
i removed the dates altogether as a test using a plugin. I basically want to use a sticky post as a welcome note to my site, but i don’t want the date on there.
How complex would you want this welcome message to be? Would using a Text widget suffice? It would take some editing of your index.php template file and your theme’s functions.php file but it should be possible to make the index.php template widget capable.
This is what i was looking at for inspiration.
http://www.alastairhumphreys.com/
trying to figure out how he did the welcome message bit below the header
He’s using a post.
I’d guess that the index.php template file has been edited to call that specific post at the top of the Home page (ie it’s not a sticky post) and display it differently. The standard part of the Home page (The Loop) has then been modified to exclude that post. The same exclusion has almost certainly been carried out on at least some of the category templates as well.
So probably a combination of get_posts and query_posts
Oh Ok, i’ll try and figure it out. i did think it could have been this — http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-greet-box/
I’m new to all this so forgive me
No problem. 🙂 The message on alastairhumphreys.com doesn’t look like it’s being produced by Greet Box. It has all the hallmarks of a standard post.
Another approach would to have the greeting message in a separate, pre-formatted, file which could then be included on the Home page. But that would make it difficult for you to modify it unless you’re comfortable using HTML in a plain text editor.
