Oh nice! Thanks for following up and sharing your findings :-)

Best,

Christopher

Front Page Category plugin did the job

Hi there,

Displaying a specific category on the home page is NOT a normal function of WordPress. Currently WordPress does NOT have a clean method to display a specific category on the home page. Doing this requires some research, custom development and testing, which goes beyond my standard support services.

Hope you understand.

Best,

Christopher

Is there a way that it doesn't directly go to the Homeapge and only show " latest posts" ?
I have made a different "category page" removed "home" from the menu and called home with a custom link to the category page
http://web.ladydandelion.com/index.php/category/homepage/

It stil shows the wrong page.
http://web.ladydandelion.com/

This should be basic WP functionality that now is broken.

He Cristopher

As i see it this is a normal function in WP that i would also like to have
Now it seems to be not working with this template.
Is there a way to get it working?

Ah, I see.

Unfortunately that goes a bit beyond the level of support I'm able to provide here in the forums. If it was something I knew off the top of my head I would gladly help, but if it requires a bit of research, testing and custom code then I have ask that you submit a request for customization services here: http://themolitor.com/custom

Hope you understand.

Thanks!

Christopher

Hi! That's not exacly what I want. I want to only show specific posts. To do that I have to create a category page which includes the posts that I want to show. Then I want that page to be my home page (the category).

Thank you!

Hi there,

No customization required. Just be sure to select "latest posts" for your home page setting on the Customize page (appearance > customize).

Hope that helps!

Best,

Christopher

I created a new php file in my theme folder with this code:

<?php
/*
* Template Name: Category based Homepage
*/
?>

<?php get_header(); ?>
<div class="main">

<?php
$cat_ID = '20'; //it should be your category ID, you can get the id of the category by going to categories and edit and then in url you can find the tag_ID.
$posts_to_show = '2'; // number of posts from the category you want to show on homepage
//query_posts("cat=$cat_ID&showposts=$posts_to_show");
$category_posts = new WP_Query("cat=$cat_ID&showposts=$posts_to_show");
//if (have_posts())
if ($category_posts->have_posts())
: $first = true;
?>
<ul class="post-list">
<?php
//while (have_posts()) : the_post();
while ($category_posts->have_posts()) : $category_posts->the_post();
if ($first)
$class = "first-in-row";
else
$class = "";
$first = !$first;
?>
<!-- Start: Post -->
<li <?php post_class($class); ?>>
<?php the_post_thumbnail(); ?>
<p class="categories"><?php the_category(", "); ?></p>
<h2>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title_attribute(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?> <?php edit_post_link(__('Edit', 'your_theme_text_domain'), '', ''); ?></h2>
<p class="post-meta"><span class="date"><?php the_time(get_option('date_format')) ?></span> <?php if (comments_open()) : ?>, <span class="comments"><?php comments_popup_link(_x('0', 'comments number', 'your_theme_text_domain'), _x('1', 'comments number', 'your_theme_text_domain'), _x('%', 'comments number', 'your_theme_text_domain')); ?></span> <?php endif; ?> <span class="author"><?php the_author() ?></span></p>
<?php the_excerpt(); ?>
<p class="more">"><?php _e('Read More »» ', 'your_theme_text_domain'); ?></p>
<?php if (has_tag()): ?><p class="tags"><span><?php the_tags(""); ?></span></p><?php endif; ?>

<!-- End: Post -->
<?php endwhile; ?>

<?php else : ?>
<h2 class="center"><?php _e('Not found', 'your_theme_text_domain'); ?></h2>
<p class="center"><?php _e('Sorry, but you are looking for something that isn\'t here.', 'your_theme_text_domain'); ?></p>
<?php
endif;
//wp_reset_query();
wp_reset_postdata();
?>
</div>
<?php get_sidebar(); //optional?>
<?php get_footer(); ?>

Then I created a new page with this new template. I then selected the page as a static page but its not working. I don't understand what I did wrong.It is supposed to show the category 20.

Hi! I would like to know how to have a category page as a home page like his : http://www.corlettvisuals.com

My website: http://www.leofilms.ca

Thank you