How do I add posts on a templated page used as home ?

@vtxyzzy,

whiiiihaaaa!! thank you very much man!! it works just beautifully! perfect! ??
you made my day! ??

thanks again!
Tommy

You are welcome. I have not tried it when using pretty permalinks, so you probably need to experiment with that before releasing it.

yes, this i what i tried yet. unfortunately it’s not working with pretty permalinks. and i’m not very familiar with PHP, so i don’t know how i can fix this. do you have an idea?

Possibly you can use code similar to that found here.

This has been quite an experience, but I believe that I now have it working for pretty permalinks. I basically used my own pagination.

Put this in your template before the loop (take out ‘posts_per_page’ to use the Reading option):

<?php
   global $post; $pageid = $post->ID;
   if (isset($_GET['mypaged'])) {
      $paged = $_GET['mypaged'];
   } else {
      $paged = (get_query_var('paged')) ? get_query_var('paged') : 1;
   }
   $args = array(
      'paged' => $paged,
      'posts_per_page' => 3,
      'caller_get_posts' => 1,
   );
   query_posts($args);
   ?>

and use this for the pagination:

<div class="navigation">
      <?php
         $hrefpat = '/href=[\"\']([^\"\']+)[\"\']/';
         $next_link = get_next_posts_link('&laquo; Older Entries');
         if (preg_match($hrefpat,$next_link,$matches)) {
            $link = $matches[0];
            $href = $matches[1];
            $parts = explode('?',$href);
            if (preg_match('/\/page\/(\d+)\/?/',$parts[0],$matches)) {
               $next_page = $matches[1];
               $parts[0] = preg_replace('/\/page\/\d+\/?/','/',$parts[0]);
               $count = 0;
               $parts[1] = preg_replace('/mypaged=\d+/',"mypaged=$next_page",$parts[1],-1,$count);
               if (!$count) {
                  if ($parts[1]) {
                     $parts[1] = "mypaged=$next_page&{$parts[1]}" ;
                  } else {
                     $parts[1] .= "mypaged=$next_page";
                  }
               }
            } elseif (!preg_match('/page_id=/',$parts[1])) {
                  $parts[1] = "page_id=$pageid&{$parts[1]}";
            }
            $next_link = preg_replace($hrefpat,"href='{$parts[0]}?{$parts[1]}'",$next_link);
         }
         $prev_link = get_previous_posts_link('Newer Entries &raquo;');
         if (preg_match($hrefpat,$prev_link,$matches)) {
            $link = $matches[0];
            $href = $matches[1];
            $parts = explode('?',$href);
            if (preg_match('/\/page\/(\d+)\/?/',$parts[0],$matches)) {
               $prev_page = $matches[1];
               $parts[0] = preg_replace('/\/page\/\d+\/?/','/',$parts[0]);
               $count = 0;
               $parts[1] = preg_replace('/mypaged=\d+/',"mypaged=$prev_page",$parts[1],-1,$count);
               if (!$count) {
                  if ($parts[1]) {
                     $parts[1] = "mypaged=$prev_page&{$parts[1]}" ;
                  } else {
                     $parts[1] = "mypaged=$prev_page";
                  }
               }
            } else {
               $prevpg = $paged - 1;
               $mypaged = ($prevpg > 1) ? 'mypaged=' . $prevpg : '';
               if (preg_match('/mypaged=/',$parts[1])) {
                  $parts[1] = preg_replace('/mypaged=\d+/',$mypaged,$parts[1]);
               } else {
                  $parts[1] = "$mypaged{$parts[1]}";
               }
               if (!preg_match('/page_id=/',$parts[1])) {
                  $parts[1] = ($parts[1]) ? "page_id=$pageid&{$parts[1]}" : "page_id=$pageid";
               }
            }
            $prev_link = preg_replace($hrefpat,"href='{$parts[0]}?{$parts[1]}'",$prev_link);
         }
         ?>
         <div class="alignleft"><?php echo $next_link; ?></div>
         <div class="alignright"><?php echo $prev_link; ?></div>
         <div class='clear'></div>
      </div>

Have you looked to see if there are any filters available? , might lighten the script if you can use a few hooks, who knows you might not need all the regex if the right hooks exist..

Just a suggestion, because all the regex might become taxing later on..

wow man! thank you very much for the time to code this!

???hm, is there a way to put this code in functions.php? i don’t want all the code in my page template…

Sure. Make two functions like this (UNTESTED!):

<?php function my_next_post_link_filter($next_link = '') {
   $hrefpat = '/href=[\"\']([^\"\']+)[\"\']/';
   if (preg_match($hrefpat,$next_link,$matches)) {
      // Lots of code here
      $next_link = preg_replace($hrefpat,"href='{$parts[0]}?{$parts[1]}'",$next_link);
   }
   return $next_link;
}?>

and this:

<?php function my_prev_post_link_filter($prev_link = '') {
   $hrefpat = '/href=[\"\']([^\"\']+)[\"\']/';
   if (preg_match($hrefpat,$prev_link,$matches)) {
      // Lots of code here
      $prev_link = preg_replace($hrefpat,"href='{$parts[0]}?{$parts[1]}'",$prev_link);
   }
   return $prev_link;
}?>

Then, call like this:

$next_link = my_next_post_link_filter(get_next_posts_link('« Older Entries'));
<div class="alignleft"><?php echo $next_link; ?></div>
$prev_link = my_prev_post_link_filter(get_previous_posts_link('Newer Entries &raquo;'));
<div class="alignright"><?php echo $prev_link; ?></div>

OOPS – you will need to pass $pageid to both functions:

$next_link = my_next_post_link_filter(get_next_posts_link('« Older Entries'),$pageid);

and modify the function defs:

<?php function my_next_post_link_filter($next_link = '',$pageid = null) {

vtxyzzy awesome fix, i used your first post, but for your 2nd maybe u can explain to people exactly what you did, it looks like you have 2 separate functions and 1 call back, if u explain this a little bit more in depth like whether all three of these go in the template file etc or if the 2 functions go in functions.php

you could even write a blog post or something, youd prob get a lot of hits, this is a pretty common thing people would want ??

i would love to know wtf this does btw, it just makes me confused (i just got off work and am tired tho…) $hrefpat = ‘/href=[\”\’]([^\”\’]+)[\”\’]/’;

Sorry for the confusion on the call-back. I just gave the first one as an example – you need to have one for get_previous_posts_link and one for get_next_posts_link.

The functions can either go in the template file, or in functions.php. The callbacks replace the normal calls to previous/next_posts_link in the template.

As for the $hrefpat, it says:

• Start the pattern: ‘/’
• Find ‘href=’: ‘href=’
• Followed by either a single or double quote: ‘[\”\’]’
• Followed by a string that does not contain either quote, and save it (the parens): ‘([^\”\’]+)
• Followed by a single or double quote: ‘[\”\’]’
• End the pattern: ‘/’

In a string like this:

<a href='https://mysite.com/?anyparams=abc' >My Site</a>

it will match https://mysite.com/?anyparams=abc and save it in $matches[0].

The pattern could be improved to make it more general, but this seems to work for its purpose.

awesome, ty ty, this has worked perfectly, did you have any other plugins have problems when putting posts on a page other than the homepage. I installed a plugin that works perfectly (shadowbox) on individual post pages and when they were displaying on the homepage but when i am on my custom template page where i have only comic posts or the blog page where only blog posts the pictures do not get cropped correctly and get all resized funny, i am assuming it is a similar issue.

I have not seen that, so I’m afraid I can’t help with it.

ok so i did some more troubleshooting, all plugins that blow up pictures nice and pretty (i.e.) shadowbox, thickbox, lightbox, etc, they will work fine on the homepage if there is a list of posts, they will work fine on the post page, but if you have a page that lists posts all of them will crop the image weird. i look at the html for that particular image and it looks the same, they both call the right class, this has got to be a super similar issue!

for me i have a menu
HOME BLOG ABOUT COMICS VIDEOS PORTAL CONTACT-US
(https://www.capsoffplease.com/2.0)

so all posts that are ‘featured’ show up under Home
posts marked category BLOG show up under blog
posts marked category COMICS show up under Comics
and so on

on the comics post i want to list 3, that works with a query and then i have like medium sized images that will link to the full-size image.

This is where the problem will work, no image (plugin) will work correct, it like crops it incorrectly, it looks like it moves it left like 200 px….) WEIRD! any ideas?