Add a few post to home page

[uNeedShari]

I’m wondering if there is any way to add 3 – 5 latest posts to a static home page. I’ve attempted to create a template, but it’s not working with the code I found on wordpress.org

Thanks!

[han]

A static home page will load a page you chose. Go to Administration > Settings > Reading panel, select ‘Your latest posts’ Front page displays and ‘5’ for ‘Blog pages show at most’.

[uNeedShari]

I’m not understanding what you’re saying to do, or it doesn’t work.

I would like a static page AND a few summary’s from the blog. Is this possible?

If I change the setting in wordpress it no longer shows the page, I do not want to use a sticky post either 🙂

Thanks!

[han]

If you want a static page and blog posts, you need to create a new page called home.php and you can add the code below (Replace the $page_id value with your page ID, you can see page ID on the URL when you edit a page / hover edit link via wp admin)

<?php
add_action( 'omega_content', 'show_page_content', 4);

function show_page_content() {
	$page_id = 1632;
	$page_object = get_page( $page_id );
	echo '<h1>' . $page_object->post_title . '</h1>';
	echo $page_object->post_content;
}

get_header(); ?>

	<main class="<?php echo omega_apply_atomic( 'main_class', 'content' );?>" <?php omega_attr( 'content' ); ?>>

		<?php 
		do_action( 'omega_before_content' ); 
		do_action( 'omega_content' ); 		
		do_action( 'omega_after_content' ); 
		?>

	</main><!-- .content -->

<?php get_footer(); ?>

There are many ways to do it but this is considered the fastest way to do and to explain 🙂

[uNeedShari]

Thanks that worked, but now exactly as I need it to. For some reason my shortcodes quit working, but it’s got me started at least. Thanks!

[han]

replace
echo $page_object->post_content;
with
echo do_shortcode($page_object->post_content);

[uNeedShari]

Thanks I’ll give that a go 🙂

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