Hi there,
I am working on the web site of my bike club and would like to be able to mix static HTML content and excerpts on both the home page and *some* category pages.

I am new to all this WP thing, and I must say that I do not know where to start.

I was thinking that I would put my static HTML content into files that I can then include, but that is the only hint I do have.

Here might not be the right place to ask this question (as I am not sure if it is a theme question or a WP question), so feel free to point me in the right direction.

Any pointers will be much appreciated.

Subsequently I might want to display exerpts on the home in two columns (I saw a sticky about that) en have different number of excerpts for some categories, but we will cross that bridge when we will cross that bridge.

Thanks in advance for your help.

Jean-Michel.

There is a custom query page template in the Gold forum that may do what you want. I typically use the List Category Posts plugin for that type of functionality.

Hi Miles,
not sure what the gold forum is (did not find it) but at the fisrt glance it would seem that this plugin will do the trick.

Hopefully it is not too heavy as my ISP only allows 32M for PHP, that does not allow for much plugin fantasy at all (especially on a 64bits server)...

I'll give it a go.

Thanks again,
JM

Hmmm...

This plugin is a start, but not really what I was looking for...

Have a look : http://jeanmichel.cazaux.free.fr/sit...ex.php/courses

I am trying to have the static content displayed in its own "box" and then the posts formated as "normal" excerpts...

Almost like if the static content was the first post of the page displayed "in full" and then the exerpts (somle of them)...

Any other hint?
I am happy (and probably can) do a bit of basic PHP tweaking if I have to.

Thanks
JM

What did you use for the plugins shortcode. You should be able to use something like the following to give you a list if excerpts from 10 posts in a category or categories In this case categories 12 and 13.
There is a list of all the attributes for this plugin on the Other Notes tab.

[catlist id=12,13 excerpt=yes numberposts=10]

I did use those keywords (exactly [catlist name=courses excerpt=yes comment=yes thumbnail=yes]), and it does show the right things, but not really in the format I am expecting...

I think I might throw myself in modifying the index.php just a bit...

Sounds like a good challenge but makes each upgrade then more difficult (this stated I am stuck with 3.5.3 due to the Suhosin issue...

I you have other ideas, please fire!

Thanks, JM