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   WoutervdW
   Member

   Hey,

   I've got a question about the free Platform theme for Wordpress- which I really like. First I had some trouble about showing the full posts (no "read more") on the frontpage, but I somehow solved that already.

   But some questions remain. The post-page (let's call it the news-page) is now the first page, but I want the frontpage smaller. I want to show one (or two) blog-posts on the frontpage together with a video and some text, and a second page for the news-archive. But I can't find a way to embed the posts on a page.

   So is there a way to do that? On page 1 I only want to include one post, on the other page more.

   I hope you can help me!

   Cheers,
   Wouter

   Posted 1 year ago #
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   Bryan Hadaway
   Bryan Hadaway

   Hi Wouter,

   A few options and settings;

   - You can limit the amount of blog posts to show on the main page from:

   Settings > Reading

   - For the second "blog" page you would need to simply mark all the posts to be shown there in the same category. Say there was a category "Cats" - if you go to:

   http://www.yourwebsite.com/category/cats/

   You'll see that there is a page for this. Now, to link to it in the menu you would need to recreate your menu custom in:

   Appearance > Menus

   - A few other options would be to create a new page and then use plugins with it:

   http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/search.php?q=posts

   along with:

   http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/widgets-on-pages/

   - I wouldn't recommend getting into the code in the template files or WordPress, but a bit more hands on approach would be to use PHP directly in pages/posts with:

   http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/exec-php/

   and code found here:

   http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/get_posts

   Well, that should be enough to keep you busy :).

   If you ever consider trying pro, you can test them here.

   Thanks, Bryan

   Bryan Hadaway: Web & Graphic Designer
   Design: http://calmestghost.com/ | Blog: http://bryanhadaway.com/

   Posted 1 year ago #

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