Show Blog Posts on Static Homepage with WordPress Thesis Theme
on May 4, 2011
Website owners often like to display some static content along with their most recent blog posts. For instance, a restaurant that wants to have their most recent blog post displayed above an image on the homepage or a blog that wants to have a static introduction above dynamically updated blog posts.
WordPress gives you the option (under Settings > Reading) to have a homepage with X number of blogs posts displayed or to show a homepage with static content. Unfortunately, WordPress does not have an easy setting to display static content along with blog posts on the homepage. However, if you are using the Thesis Theme, making this change is fairly straightforward.
If you do not already have a static homepage configured, follow the steps below to set one up. If you have a static homepage set up already, skip to the set of directions below:
- Log into the admin panel of your WordPress install.
- Go to Pages > Add New and create a page called “Home” or “Homepage” and save it (no need to put any content in aside from the title).
- Add another new page called “Blog” (or whatever you want your blog page to be named).
- Go to Settings > Reading.
- After the “Front page displays” option, select “A static page.”
- Under static page, select the Front page and the Posts page. The Front page is going to be the new page you just created called “Home.” The Posts page is going to be the newly created “Blog” page.
- Click “Save Changes” and follow the instructions below to add blog posts to you static homepage
To show blog posts on static homepage, simply paste the below snippet of code into your custom_functions.php file:
function static_front_posts(){
if (is_front_page()) {
?>
<div id="my-static-front-posts">
<?php
$custom_loop = new WP_Query('showposts=10&orderby=date');
if ( $custom_loop->have_posts() ) :
while ( $custom_loop->have_posts() ) : $custom_loop->the_post();
echo '<div class="post type-post hentry post_box top">';
echo '<div class="headline_area"><h2 class="entry-title"><a href="' . get_permalink() . '">' . get_the_title() . '</a></h2>';
echo '<p class="headline_meta"><abbr title="" class="published">' . get_the_date() . '</abbr></p></div>';
echo '<div class="format_text entry-content"><p>' . get_the_excerpt() . '</p></div>';
echo '<a href="' . get_permalink() . '">' . '<span class="more-button">Read More</span></a>';
echo '</div>';
endwhile;
wp_reset_query();
endif;
?></div><?php
}
}
add_action('thesis_hook_after_content','static_front_posts');
Notes:
- You can change the number of posts displayed on your homepage by editing the 10 to the number of posts you want to show in line 6 of the code snippet:
$custom_loop = new WP_Query('showposts=10&orderby=date');
- If you want to display the full content of the post instead of just the excerpt, replace get_the_excerpt with get_the_content in line 12 of the code snippet:
echo '<div class="format_text entry-content"><p>' . get_the_excerpt() . '</p></div>';
- To change the positioning of the blog posts (above or below the homepage’s static content) change the ‘thesis_hook_after_content’ to ‘thesis_hook_before_content’ in the last line of the code snippet:
add_action('thesis_hook_after_content','static_front_posts');
- To remove the “Read More” link, simply delete line 13 in the code snippet:
echo '<a href="' . get_permalink() . '">' . '<span>Read More</span></a>';
- To add thumbnails to your static posts, please see the code in our below blog post:
Show Image Thumbails with Blog Excerpts or Posts on Static Homepage using the WordPress Thesis Theme
HELP! I sort of want to do the opposite:
No posts, other than one that is on the static home page -But direct all posts to another page in the site.
What am I missing?
Thanks for your time – if you see this…:)
In Admin Dashboard, go to Settings > Reading and you can set posts to be directed to another page besides you homepage.
Thank you for this– it worked perfectly. Is there a way to put the over all blog page title on the splash page before the blogs to separate it from the static content? Specifically my overall blog page will be called “Heart Beats” and I’d like that to show below the static content and before the blog excerpts that appear on the static page.
Thanks in advance for your assistance.
If I understand correctly you want to show your blog posts on a static homepage, but have the title of your blog (Heart Beats) showing between your static content and your blog posts?
Would it work to just put the title at the bottom of your static content and format it as a heading? That would be the quickest solution.
Let us know if you need any further assistance.
Hi
Great post. I am trying to do the same thing but for other pages. E.g. I have a page called Special Offers. I want to display some static text on this page and then blog posts of all the special offers I can find. How could I do this?
It will require customizing the code a bit. We’ll email you further details right now. Thanks!
I am trying to do basically the same thing here: I bought a new theme for WordPress. My previous theme had a flash thing on top that showed pictures of the most recent articles etc, and the new one has a few different things like this but it isn’t set to show it automatically, you have to make a page and put a code there for it. I got that working, but now I can’t figure out how to get the posts to show there. Can you help?
Sure, happy to help. Will shoot you an email with details.
I have spent hours looking for such a tutorial! I think it might work great for what I am trying to accomplish, but looks like further tweaks are needed. First off, I chose a full-width page for the static home page, so I can use a graphical menu (to galleries) on the right hand side. I would like to have the two most recent posts automatically show to the left of this menu. (Being relatively new to WP and using Thesis for the first time, I am not even sure if the full-width solution is better than trying to customize the right column widget area for one page.)
I used Easy Columns to divide the page up into three columns. Is it possible to place the posts into these columns using a variation of your code? I doubt that there is a hook for this. I set up two columns to have the posts side by side, but can change to one column if it is much simpler. Can you help?
One last question: in testing your code only the post text and “read more” showed up on the home page. Is it possible to include the post title and thumbnail image also?
Many thanks!
Fantastic post – this does almost exactly what I’m looking for. I’ve hit a bit of snag, however: I think WordPress is not recognizing my static page as the home page. If I have your code snippet above in custom_functions.php and load a static homepage, nothing shows. However, when I set my Reading–>Front Page Displays… setting to “Your Latest Posts” I get the Thesis-generated list followed by a duplicate list (which I’m assuming is coming from the code). Any idea why this might be happening?
Also – saw that you’re based in VT – hope you and yours are all OK.
Thanks. We managed alright. Fortunate that our office is up on high ground!
Glad you found it helpful, to answer your question:
Under Settings > Reading, have you taken the following steps?
1) After the “Front page displays” option, select “A static page.”
2) Under static page, select the Front page and the Posts page. The Front page is going to be the new page you just created called “Home.” The Posts page is going to be the newly created “Blog” page.
From your description, it sounds like you need to create a “Home” page and select it as the static page under Settings > Reading.
If this doesn’t do the trick, let us know and we can take a look.
You are welcome. We will email you about your questions. Thanks!
This was just what I was looking for–thank you! I am having one issue as a result of implementing this though–code is coming through my post and doesn’t appear as the other posts do. Any advice?
You’re welcome. We’d be happy to help out if you can tell us what version of WordPress you are using and what plugins you have installed.
THanks! WP 3.2, running Contact form 7 (2.4.6), Google Maps v3 shortcode (1.02), Jetpack (1.1.3), Recent posts slider (0.6.2), Thesis openhook (2.3.2) WP-Cycle (0.1.12)
Sure, thanks for the info. Check out http://wordpress.org/support/topic/image-caption-shortcode-not-being-parsed for the fix. If you need help implementing the fix, let us know.
Again, thank you for your help. I see that I need to add this code:
$content = get_the_content();
$content = apply_filters(‘the_content’, $content);
but I’m not sure where in custom_functions.php file I need to do that. Here’s what I have:
/*recent posts–home*/
function static_front_posts(){
if (is_front_page()) {
?>
$custom_loop = new WP_Query(‘showposts=1&orderby=date’);
if ( $custom_loop->have_posts() ) :
while ( $custom_loop->have_posts() ) : $custom_loop->the_post();
echo ”;
echo ‘‘ . get_the_title() . ‘‘;
echo ‘‘ . get_the_date() . ‘‘;
echo ” . get_the_content() . ”;
echo ‘‘ . ‘Read More‘;
echo ”;
endwhile;
wp_reset_query();
endif;
?><?php
}
}
add_action('thesis_hook_after_content','static_front_posts');
/*recent posts–home
function static_front_posts(){
if (is_front_page()) {
?>
$custom_loop = new WP_Query(‘showposts=1&orderby=date’);
if ( $custom_loop->have_posts() ) :
while ( $custom_loop->have_posts() ) : $custom_loop->the_post();
echo ”;
echo ‘‘ . get_the_title() . ‘‘;
echo ‘‘ . get_the_date() . ‘‘;
echo ” . get_the_content() . ”;
echo ‘‘ . ‘Read More‘;
echo ”;
endwhile;
wp_reset_query();
endif;
?><?php
}
}
add_action('thesis_hook_after_content','static_front_posts');
*/
sorry i can’t paste the code in but it reads just as you have it but I have get_the_content() instead of get_the_excerpt()
Just emailed you regarding the code modifications.
Hi, Does the static home page need to be called “home or homepage” specifically?
My home page is called another name, but is showing as the correct page in settings/reading
Everything ele seems to be correct?
I must have it wong somewhere?
Thanks in advance for any suggestions
Pete
The static home page can be called anything you’d like. I’d double check that you took care of all the steps. If you don’t find anything missing, let us know and we can assist.
I have it working now……one last question is, how to add a thumbnail?
Thanks again
Pete
It requires a bit of custom coding. We’ll email you further details.
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Great tutorial- just one question.
I’m using a child theme of twenty eleven and the Reading Settings for the posts page seems to be broken. I have it set to show my “Blog” page, the page is created, and I’ve published a post, but when you navigate to the page, it’s totally empty. However, the static page for Home is working fine. I’ve tried everything and can’t figure it out.
Thanks for your help!
Hi Dori, thanks, glad you found it useful. That’s odd that the static home page is working and posts are showing on the “Blog” page — leads me to believe that it’s something in the WordPress settings and not intimately related to the static homepage set up. We’d be happy try and help you out though, but need a little info first: what’s the URL of your “Blog” page and in Settings > Reading on your WordPress dashboard, which page is selected as the “Posts” page?
Thank you!
I’ve tried your code and it works really good for me, but I do have a question of how to show the post thumbnail and showing the posts in two columns under the static content?
Appreciate your help, thanks!
You want to show thumbnails in one column and actual text in the other? Or do you want both displayed together, but in a two column layout?
Great Info! Thanks
3 questions if you have time
Can you filter by categories?
Could you send along the add thumbnail code?
How can I repay you?
found answer to #1
$custom_loop = new WP_Query(‘showposts=10&orderby=date&category_name=listings’);
where listing is the cat slug name
Hi Brad, glad you found the info to be helpful and thanks for posting the answer to your first question. To answer the other two:
2) Try out this plugin for adding thumbnails: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/thumbnail-for-excerpts/
3) If you’d like to repay us you can donate via paypal. I’ll email details.
Hi Nathanial,
I input the following code during the while loop to get the thunbnails.
$post_image = thesis_post_image_info(‘thumb’);
echo ” . $post_image[‘output’] . ”;
Do see any disadvantage in doing that?
Nope, that should work just as well. Thanks for sharing!
Oh, maybe you take a look and see if appears to work OK from your perspective
http://www.erakey.com
Thanks,
Brad
Yeah, looks good. I see the thumbnails next to the excepts on the homepage.
I apologize beforehand if I should know the answer to this, but I feel I may have come in at the middle of the conversation and maybe this was documented earlier. I cannot find a custom_functions.php file to work with in my current theme. Is this something I create new? If so, how do I incorporate it, so it is called when the static front page is displayed?
Are you using the Thesis theme for WordPress? If so, it is located at
/wp-content/themes/thesis_18/custom/custom_functions.phpHi! I’m in the middle of rebuilding my website on thesis, and this post has saved my life. Thank you so much! However, I want to replace the “[…]” in the excerpt with “…” on my static page. I’ve been searching high and low and can’t figure out how to do this. Do you have any suggestions?
Hi, glad you found this tutorial on static posts for Thesis helpful. You just need to add the below function to your custom_functions.php file to remove the “[…]”
function trim_excerpt($text) {return rtrim($text,'[...]');
}
add_filter('get_the_excerpt', 'trim_excerpt');
Hooray! It’s gone! Thank you. I had tried that function code from another site and it didn’t work. But yours did!
Is it also possible to replace that text with a regular ellipsis with the three periods so it is just:
…
You’re welcome. You just need to modify the function a bit:
function replace_ellipsis($text) {$return = str_replace('[...]', '-', $text);
return $return;
}
add_filter('get_the_excerpt', 'replace_ellipsis');
Replace the hyphen (-) in the second line of the above code with whatever you want to show instead of the “[…]”
Hi,
Thanks for this great post. I’ve used your code into my thesis static page, but instead of putting the code at custom_functions.php, I have placed it directly on my custom page home.php. The problem is the headline is not appearing and I also tried the code above to get the post images but did not work.
Could you please, give some advice on how to fix it?
Thanx
Things aren’t working 100% because the code is designed to go in custom_functions.php. Send us an email and we can work to get this fixed.
Thanks!
I’ve adjusted the code to work but still can’t get the blog image.
The code I used:
<?php $temp_query = $wp_query; ?><?php query_posts('showposts=3&orderby=date'); ?>
<?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
<div class="post" id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>">
<h2><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h2>
<small><?php the_time('F jS, Y') ?> <!-- by <?php the_author() ?> --></small>
<?php the_excerpt(); ?>
<a href=”<?php the_permalink() ? rel="nofollow">”>[Read more]</a>
</div>
<?php endwhile; ?>
If anyone have a solution for the thunbnails, please let me know.
Simone, Have you taken a look at Brad Bonnell’s comments regarding thumbnails?
Followed the direction exactly…. Cant get the teasers to show up for nothing. Please help. I need this.
If you followed the directions correctly, the blog posts should be showing. My only thought is that some of your other content might be interfering? Try changing the location of the blog excerpts by editing
add_action('thesis_hook_after_content','static_front_posts');And see if that will get them to show up. If that doesn’t do the trick, send us an email and we can look into it further.
Thank you sooo much I have been trying to get this for a while. Quick question though, is it possible for a 2 column layout with excerpts in each and also thumbnails with the excerpts?Thank you again.
Yes, the excepts can be paired with thumbnails and placed anywhere. Drop us an email for further details.
Hi, you are so generous with your time thank you.
I have one question, I want static text BELOW the WordPress loop.
My home page is static and I am happy with that.
But I am referring to the ‘Free Articles’ page: http://entrepreneurmonk.com/free-articles/
When I add the code you provided to custom-functions.php, it placed the WordPress Loop below the static text on the home page. What I need is the WordPress Loop only on the ‘Free Articles’ page, and below the static text!
Many thanks
Ande
Hi Ande, you’re welcome. On the last line, change the hook from “after” to “before”:
add_action('thesis_hook_after_content','static_front_posts');to:
add_action('thesis_hook_before_content','static_front_posts');Hi – glad to have found this!
However, you say:
“To show blog posts on static homepage, simply paste the below snippet of code into your custom_functions.php file:”
On my Thesis open hook page there are at least a dozen boxes that say:
“Equivalent to adding to _________________ in your custom_functions.php file.” and in the blank is a different option for each box.
My question is, into which box in open hook do I place the code
function static_front_posts(){
if (is_front_page()) {
?>
have_posts() ) :
while ( $custom_loop->have_posts() ) : $custom_loop->the_post();
echo ”;
echo ‘‘ . get_the_title() . ‘‘;
echo ‘‘ . get_the_date() . ‘‘;
echo ” . get_the_excerpt() . ”;
echo ‘‘ . ‘Read More‘;
echo ”;
endwhile;
wp_reset_query();
endif;
?><?php
}
}
add_action('thesis_hook_after_content','static_front_posts');
Thanks!
Lani — you’re going to have to edit the code a bit if you’re not using it with custom_functions.php. Feel free to contact us if you need further guidance.
That’s excellent – however how do i have this mixture of blog and static text on a page other than the home page?
I only want it to display on this page:
http://entrepreneurmonk.com/free-articles/
Thanks very much for your time.
Ande
@ Brad or anyone else.
Trying to put the default thumbnail using Brad’s suggestion?
where exactly can the following code in the hook
“$post_image = thesis_post_image_info(‘thumb’);
echo ” . $post_image[‘output’] . ”;”
————————–
function static_front_posts(){
if (is_front_page()) {
?>
have_posts() ) :
while ( $custom_loop->have_posts() ) : $custom_loop->the_post();
echo ”;
echo ‘‘ . get_the_title() . ‘‘;
echo ‘‘ . get_the_date() . ‘‘;
echo ” . get_the_excerpt() . ”;
echo ‘‘ . ‘Read More‘;
echo ”;
endwhile;
wp_reset_query();
endif;
?><?php
}
}
add_action('thesis_hook_after_content','static_front_posts');
————–
Many thanks in advance
Hi Guys,
I am a relative nOOb to all of this but I am trying to do something similar for my company website. Basically I want to have the static homepage but with two columns/text boxes containing up-datable content. I have considered just saving them as media and using the gallery option but I want to be able to easily edit the content. We are using a custom built theme AFAIK ( We had a company build the site)
Is there anyway I can achieve this?
Any help would be really appreciated.
Thanks
Hi Chris, thanks for your comment. Just sent you an email with further details.
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Thanks for posting this. It helped me solve a PITA problem!
You’re welcome. Glad it helped!
Ooops. How do I add pagination to this?
Thanks.
What exactly do you mean by pagination?
Hi there
I followed your instructions for the above and all seemed fine except that my posts were showing as full length features. So, I deleted the code and retried it only to get a HTTP 500 internel server error. Now I can’t access my login dashboard. Any help or advice you could give would be really appreciated for this newbie.
Thanks in advance.
Grahame
Hi Gramhe, it sounds like you inadvertently deleted some other code when you removed the code to display blog posts. Do you have a backup of your custom_functions.php folder? If so, you can restore it via FTP.
how did we manage that our background should be static and only the content should scroll like in this blog.
We set it up with CSS, drop us an email if you’d like specifics.
Hi there C133,
Just read what you posted, and this is exactley what I’m after. I am using this template: http://themeforest.net/item/bonsai-minimalist-wordpress-theme/238277 and my blog is: http://www.echofestival.com
Basically, I would like to have my blog posts, with the last 2 posts directley under my static page as the original template shows….
But, as I have downloaded and used this template, in the Editor I cannot find a custom functions.php ?
So where would I put that snippet of code to do this on my home page???
Hi Nick, since you are using a theme other than thesis the code will have to be tweaked a bit and put in a different location. We’ll take a look at your theme and shoot you an email with some details. Cheers.
Great post! Thanks for this tutorial. I’m needing to add tags to these posts though. I tried adding:
echo ” . the_tags() . ”;
This works, but it doesn’t write put the tags inside the , it puts them above it so I can’t style them. Any idea how to fix this?
Hey Taylor, you are welcome. Where are you putting the above code? I think something in the last sentence of your comment was cut off as well. You can email it to us if you want (contact info) and we will take a look at your code. Cheers!
Great post!!, thanks a lot for this.
I am newbie on thesis theme and so far I love it.
Everything from your tutorials worked great for me, the only problem I have is adding thumbnails to the excerpt. I have tried several things (including Brad´s suggestion), but no success so far. could you please help me on this?
Thanks!!
Janeth
Hi Janeth, glad you found this post helpful. Thesis is great, not too hard to get into. Adding thumbnails requires a bit of custom coding depending on how your site is set up. I’ll email you in a minute with further details. Cheers!
Hi,
I am trying to put only posts from one category (news) in the front page of a wordpress site using the Regulus theme. It would be possible to use your code do achieve this? thanks
Hi Antonio, we should be able to help out with this. We’ll send you an email with some details in a few minutes. Cheers!
Hello and thanks for the great post.
I want to adding Thumbnails to the excerpt.
Can you tell me what code is to place in the customs_functions.php
Regards
Peter
You’re welcome Peter, emailing further details.
Hello great post… very helpful. However.. youtube links are now not displaying correctly.
on static page http://www.ae-collective.com/blog
but are displaying correctly on the blog page
http://ae-collective.com/blog/?page_id=335
Any Ideas?
I would go back and double check the links, it looks like some formatting has been lost. Also, double check your custom_functions.php file to make sure you haven’t left off an ‘ or an ?> somewhere.
Also can not add custom heading similar to side bars via an open hook or insert into post because I had to make the content come before the post
This leads me to wonder if there is some syntax in custom_functions.php that is messing up how other elements are displayed. If you want to email us your file we can take a look.
sent!
Hi, this tutorial seems like it might do the trick. However, I can’t find the custom_functions.php file anywhere in my wordpress install.
I am using Genesis Framework with Lifestyle child theme.
Does anyone know if there is a different file for genesis/lifestyle that I should edit?
The site I am working on is here: http://www.lunchingforaustralia.com.au
And I would like to have a static top half of the front page, with blog posts in the lower second half.
Any help is greatly appreciated.
thanks
James
Hi James, you will need to edit a different file if you’re not using Thesis. Let us check your theme out and we’ll be in touch. Cheers!
Hi, If I want to have a static home page and put my blog posts under a separate tab entitled blog, how would I do this? I am using Thesis Theme- Smart Skin . http://www.createthyself.com
Thanks in advance!
Hi Dustin, first create a page named Home and a page named Blog. The go to Settings > Reading and select the static home page option, using the appropriate pages in the drop down menus.
Perfect. Just pasted the code in – posts appeared. Thanks!
Hi, thanks for taking the time out of your day to answer our questions. I think I may have messed something up with my wordpress site. I tried inserting that code into the custom functions file and when I did it shut my site down – it says HTTP 500 Internal Server Error. It says the website can’t be displayed either under maintenance or programming error.
I just realized it may be because I don’t have the Thesis theme. Ugh 🙁 How can I fix this to get my site back up and running – it won’t even let me log in.
Hi Mike, you’ll need to use FTP to undo the edits to undo the changes to custom_functions.php because (as you surmise) the code is meant for Thesis. If you’d like help, please feel free to contact us via the link in the upper right of this page.
I choose blog as my posts page but there are no posts on it. It’s just blank.
How do I get my latest posts to feature on this?
Hi Daniel, they should show up automatically. Have you written and published posts?
Thank you so much I was working on this for hours.
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Wow, it worked. Thanks for the help.
You’re welcome!
Hi there,
This looks like such a helpful site…thanks for the time you take to answer queries.
I have a static homepage but want to add my most recent posts on it but I’m using the child theme Lifestyle on wordpress. How do I do it using this theme rather than thesis?
Many thanks,
Jane
Hi Jane, thanks for your kind words. The code can probably be adapted the the Lifestyle theme fairly easily. If you want to email us (via the contact tab below the form) a copy of your functions.php file, we can take a look.
Thanks for this! The videos in my posts are not displaying when pulled onto my home page with your code. I’m getting the text of the post, plus the video embed code. Is there something I can do about that?
And one more question if I may. How do I determine how much white space there is between the content on the page and these blog post? I have a pretty wide gap and would like to reduce it. Thanks.
Hi Michael, the videos will not get pulled in with the excerpt, but the code can be customized to display the full post (see Notes above). You should be able to control the white space with CSS, if you need further help, please contact us via the contact link at the top of the page.
Hi, will this work with any theme or just Thesis?
Thanks!
The code will have to be slightly modified for themes other than Thesis. Let us know if you need any assistance with this.
how can I show 2 post per line?
Thanks for your help!
What do you mean exactly? Two posts total or two columns with posts?
2 columns with posts!
Actually I am searching for display recent posts from blog to my website homepage. website and blog both are in wp but are in different directories and different wp installation. Any one can guide me how can I connect both and retrieve recent post from blog to homepage.
Thanks.
We’d recommend either getting everything into one WordPress install or else using a third party solution (perhaps Feedburner?). Good luck!
Hello I’m trying to customize my site to show all my posts in the homepage instead of a blog page, (my home page is a static page) and to still have the content from the page like the featured posts slider or a description that I add before the posts and i will like it to have page numbers at the bottom. I’m using an Artisteer theme in wordpress.
Hi, we may be able to help you with this. Just emailed you further details. Thanks.
Very helpful. Thanks!
I’m finding the “get_the_content” method strips most of my posts’ formatting, mostly paragraphs and line breaks. Is there a setting so the posts keep their formatting when displayed on the home page? Thanks.
I would like to use this with my current theme. I have more than one post page. I am pretty ignorant with all of this still so if you could help and explain like you were talking to a very young child. LOL! Any help is appreciated. 🙂
You’ll need to adapt the code to your theme. We’ve emailed you additional details.
Hi all, Is there a code to make the post page display the excerpts in two columns. I know this is possible in Thesis 2 but we are using thesis 1.8.4. In archives pages the post page are displayed in two columns because we can set that way.. but I’m wondering if it can be done too in a normal post page.. appreciate any help on this one. Our website is easysmallbusinesshr.com by the way. Thanks!
This can easily be set up with some custom coding. Please contact us if you would like assistance with it.
how can I customize the appearance of the Read More link? I’m not sure what to add in the css file… Currently my home page is static with blog post excerpts, but the Read More link is incredibly tiny. Also the image thumbnails are not clickable. Can this be fixed?
See your other comment re: image thumbnails. You can style the read more link with CSS. If you need specific instructions, please let us know.
Hi guys!
I followed the instructions to switch over to a static homepage for my site (running Thesis but not the latest version), and somehow the change took the site down.
I know it’s not the hosting because I can access the WP admin console just fine.
I’ve already reversed the changes to the custom_functions.php file, as well as the Settings options, and still the site’s not working.
Any ideas?
Hi Susan, have you double checked the syntax in custom_functions.php? If you don’t see anything obvious there, we’d be happy to take a look if you can email us log in credentials. Good luck!
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I am wondering if I can use this to display posts of just one specific category?
Yes, the code can be modified to display a specific category. If you’d like any help setting it up, please let us know.
Hello,
Thank you for all your hard work.
I to have a static homepage in which I would like to add a recent blob post section with excerpt and links to the actual blogs. Your instructions seem straight forward but. I am using a headway theme which I designed myself and I have no custom_functions.php file. Is this something I can just create? How would I do that?
You’re welcome Dave. If you are using a different theme, the code will need to be adapted to that theme’s functions.php file (or whatever the corresponding file for them theme is). We’d be happy to help, drop us an email if you’d like to discuss further. Thanks!
I am looking to add this feature to the font page of my theme. Frontier is the theme and I need to be able to have Video above the blog posts. Can you please help?
Sure, check your email.
Exactly the items i was looking for, thankyou for adding.
This is from 2011… Does this still work for Thesis 2.1? This is the most helpful info I can find so I hope it still does.
Hi
What if I want show to my content on home page. together with the post.
thanks
The process is a bit different in 2.1. Easiest way is to create a custom template in the skin editor.
The code can be edited to display additional content. Let us know if you need help with the PHP.
Could you please email me the instructions for doing this with a different theme, in my case Terrifico?
Thank you in advance,
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I am looking to redirect the homepage to a regular page because the slider is causing an error. Is there a way to disable the automatic homepage?
hello.
please i am designing a website and come across your website that has thesame thing i am looking for.
please, i am using “Business point theme”.
i tried to paste the code you wrote inside the custom_functions.php but unfortunately i did not work for me.
so, please i dont know if it is maybe because i am using a different them.
please, help me one how i can do it on the theme called; Business point.
regards
Hi!
I am having trouble finding the custom_functions.php file…
I would appreciate your help!
Thank you