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scrubbs Apr 26, 2009 08:50 PM

How to create a homepage with links to featured posts
 
To start... my site is http://www.inspirationalparenting.com. I am fairly new to blogging and wordpress. I have read posts with similar requests to this one but not quite the same. What I want to do is this.

Have a homepage that is static. I would then like to plug in "featured posts" so I can present the best posts (from my opinion). These will likely change weekly and I assume it will be a manual process.

From there, I would then want people to be able to move on to the rest of the blog through categories and page links.

Is there a way to do this?

Flynn Apr 27, 2009 06:58 PM

Choose a static page as front page at Site Admin -> Settings -> Reading -> Front page displays...

Create a category "Featured" and give featured posts this as a second category

Install the plugin Page2Cat to display posts from the Featured category on the static page that you chose as front page

There might be better ways to do this

scrubbs May 10, 2009 08:48 PM

Thanks again for all your help! I think I am almost where I need to be with this. Page2cat has worked great in that users can click on a category and be directed to a static page for those posts. This allows me to add static content at the top of each category page.

My problem is only with the homepage. Page2cat works as described above when the user clicks the category link but not when clicking the page link which is why I am hiding the pages, thus forcing users to click the categories. With the homepage, I cannot see a way to display the category page.. only a static page. Thus, even if I associate that page with my category (featured), the posts still do not display as the users are accessing the static page rather than the category page.

How can I set the category page link as my frontpage?

For now, you can see that I have used the [catlist=xxx] to include featured posts but I do not like how it is formatted and cannot see any way to mess with that. I would go directly to the page2cat developer but they are gone apparently.

Is there some way I could hard-code it to go directly to a category/page link for the homepage?

Flynn May 11, 2009 07:27 PM

Look into the source code of the browser-rendered page or use Firebug to figure out the ID or classes of the DIV or whatever containers being used. Then apply styling to them by adding CSS Inserts

scrubbs May 11, 2009 08:47 PM

So there is no way to have my frontpage default to http://inspirationalparenting.com/category/featured/? I would think there is some code insert you could give me to link directly to the category link rather than directly to the page. I just have no idea how to do what you described... especially with the CSS Inserts part.

If this is not possible... then perhaps this would be an easy answer. On the homepage I have now, I have two references[tdomf_formxx] (for the input form) and [catlist=xxx] (for the featured posts reference). No matter which one I put first... the first one displays normally and the second one is indented (see how the featured posts are indented). This is fine for them but if we cannot figure out how to make the link above my homepage, I would like the [catlist=xxx] to be above the form entry. If I do this, the form is all messed up because of the indent.

Is there a way to have the second reference not indent?

Lastly, I want to add how impressed with how quickly you respond to my posts! It is a testament to the kind of dedicated person you are! I truly appreciate every minute you spend helping me!

Rashell May 22, 2009 10:09 AM

You could try looking through the wordpress plugins for homepage or redirects to see if there's a compatible plug in available.

Rashell

reallylost May 30, 2009 09:58 AM

Hi

Am really a beginner at this, how can I insert a link to an external homepage in my homepage footer?

I'm using photos shot by a photographer and would like to add the link to his website next to the copyright.

thanks

reallylost May 30, 2009 10:00 AM

Sorry, I forgot the second question: how can I add a link to an image in my post/page?

Ideally, I would like to open a new window directed to a website by clicking on the image in the post.

Hope this is clear...

Thanks

Flynn May 31, 2009 06:20 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by reallylost (Post 7432)
Hi

Am really a beginner at this, how can I insert a link to an external homepage in my homepage footer?

I'm using photos shot by a photographer and would like to add the link to his website next to the copyright.

thanks

Simply use HTML:

HTML Code:

<a href="http://www.otherdomain.com/">Other Domain</a>

Flynn May 31, 2009 06:22 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by reallylost (Post 7433)
Sorry, I forgot the second question: how can I add a link to an image in my post/page?

Ideally, I would like to open a new window directed to a website by clicking on the image in the post.

Hope this is clear...

Thanks

Also with HTML, use the "HTML" tab in the Wordpress post/page editor:

HTML Code:

<a href="http://www.otherdomain.com/"><img src="/path/to/image.gif" alt="Other Domain" /></a>


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