<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 3:58 PM, Andrea <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:andrea@ronandandrea.com" target="_blank">andrea@ronandandrea.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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The final circumstance is where you want to display the most recent n posts on the front page, but you also want to have a few paragraphs of intro text at the top. For this, the ideal would be to use a Wordpress page to hold the intro text, and then display the n posts beneath (with the number based on the setting in options-reading.php). However, because The Loop only displays the page content OR the posts, the only way to achieve this (that I can find) is to create a new named template, associate that with the page that's being used as the front page, and then manually define a get_posts() function call within the template to retrieve the most recent posts.<br>
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And this is what you would put in home.php. It's an either/or situation: you can use the drop-down option and pick a page, or you can use something specially coded in the form of home.php.<br>
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Making a special page template, then setting that page as the home via the drop-down accomplishes the same thing, but in more steps. One is geared to more novice users.</blockquote><div><br>I'd love to use home.php as the simpler option. However I can't figure out how to dynamically insert content into the home.php from a page in the database, as selecting a page from the drop-down switches to the page.php templates. Perhaps it's an usual use-case, but I'd have expected Wordpress to use the home.php template for both options, and to simply change what content appears in The Loop.<br>
<br>Anyway, +1 to better documentation for this feature. I'll try to help if I can.<br><br>Frankie<br>
<br></div></div>-- <br>Frankie Roberto<br>Experience Designer, Rattle<br>0114 2706977<br><a href="http://www.rattlecentral.com" target="_blank">http://www.rattlecentral.com</a><br><br>