front page selection

  • Hi

    I am a copy-paste coder so I work on instinct instead of knowledge, and I am looking for how this hack-and mix theme selects its front page posts.

    I would like to assign a category called “frontpage” and use it to control what is shown on the first page. Not quite sure how the selection is made now. Date maybe?

    https://bobbygood.de.s47775.gridserver.com/

    Thank you

    holby

    <?php get_header(); ?>
<div id="introduction" class="grid_8">
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</div>

<hr class="grid_12" />
	<div id="content" class="grid_12">

	    <?php
	    // Grab Option Tree theme options
        if (function_exists( 'get_option_tree') ) { $options = get_option_tree( 'option_tree'); }

        // Start Slider
        if (function_exists( 'get_option_tree') && get_option_tree( 'workaholic_homepage',$options) == 'Upload images') {
            $i=0;
            $home_images = get_option_tree('workaholic_home_images',$options,false,true); ?>
            <h2>Latest</h2> 

            <?php foreach( $home_images as $image ) { 

                $i++; ?> 

                <div class="portfolio grid_4<?php if ($i == 1) { ?> alpha<?php } else if($i==3) {?> omega<?php $i = 0;} ?>">
                    <h4><a href="<?php if( $image['link'] <> '') { echo $image['link']; } else { echo "#"; } ?>" class="thumb">
        				    <img src="<?php echo $image['image']; ?>" alt="<?php echo $image['title']; ?>" width="284" height="150"  />
                                <span class="title"><?php echo $image['title']; ?></span></a><span class="category"><?php echo $image['description']; ?></span></h4>
                                </div>
           <?php } ?>

        <?php } else { ?> 

	<?php if (have_posts()) : ?>
	<?php $i=0; ?>
	<h2>NEW</h2>

		<?php
		global $blog_ID;
		$paged = (get_query_var('paged')) ? get_query_var('paged') : 1;
		query_posts('cat=-' . $blog_ID. '&paged='.$paged);
		while (have_posts()) : the_post();$i++;?>	

			<div class="portfolio grid_4<?php if ($i == 1) { ?> alpha<?php } else if($i==3) {?> omega<?php $i = 0;} ?>">
				<h4><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>" class="thumb">
					<?php get_the_image( array( 'custom_key' => array( 'thumbnail' ), 'default_size' => 'thumbnail', 'width' => '284', 'height' => '150', 'link_to_post' => false ) ); ?>
						<span class="title"><?php the_title(); ?></span></a><span class="category"> <?php the_excerpt(' + '); ?>   </span></h4>
			</div>		

		<?php endwhile; wp_reset_query();?>

	<?php else : ?>

		<h2 class="center">Not Found</h2>
		<p class="center">Sorry, but you are looking for something that isn't here.</p>
		<?php get_search_form(); ?>

	<?php endif; ?>

	<?php } ?> 

	</div>

<?php get_footer(); ?>
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  • It looks like the code is using the Option Tree plugin to assign images for the home page.

    Go to Admin->Option Tree->Theme Options, and look for options with ‘Home Images’ in the title.

    Thread Starter holby

    (@holby)

    Hi

    I had a look I don’t think thats it. I have to understand where to change how the choice is made what to put on the front page. I wand it to use a category instead of date or whatever it does now.

    It isn’t an option, I have to identify it in the code somehow

    thank you

    holby

    OK – if the Option Tree option is not used, it looks like the posts will be selected in date order, newest first.

    This is the query that selects the posts:

    query_posts('cat=-' . $blog_ID. '&paged='.$paged);

    it is already excluding the category with an id of $blog_ID, so you would add the id of the category that you want to include. Assuming the id of the ‘frontpage’ category is ’17’, this should work:

    query_posts('cat=-' . $blog_ID . ',17&paged='.$paged);
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