Add blog posts to static home page

[support.jilladdison]

I need to add selected blog posts after the content on my static home page. I need to be able to select the specific posts to display.

Is it best to add a custom widget that displays after the content of the home page.

I found a couple of topics asking about doing this, but did not find a good answer.

Thanks for your help

[Ben @ Inbound Creative]

Simple answer? You're headed in the right direction.

You will want to use Genesis' hooks function to add a widget area to the relevant hook.

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[support.jilladdison]

Thank you for your encouragement.

I added a custom sidebar and added Genesis - Featured Posts to it. This worked fine.

I am now trying to add the sidebar to the content area of my page. But it is not working. Following is my code. Do you see something wrong ?

add_action( ‘genesis_entry_content’, ‘home_page_blog_list′,2 );
function home_page_blog_list() {
if( is_front_page() ) {
genesis_widget_area( 'home-blog-list', array(
'before' => '<div class="blog-intro"><div class="wrap">',
'after' => '</div></div>',
) );
}
}

[support.jilladdison]

I figured it out and wanted to post to anyone else wanting to do the same thing.

I added the following to functions.php to create the new widget:

genesis_register_sidebar( array(
'id' => 'home-blog-list',
'name' => __( 'Home - Blog List', 'streamline' ),
'description' => __( 'This will appear on the home page below the content.', 'streamline' ),
) );

In the widgets, I added Featured Post to this widget.

In front-page.php for my child theme, I added the following:
add_action( 'genesis_entry_content', 'home_blog_list');
function home_blog_list() {
genesis_widget_area( 'home-blog-list', array(
'before' => '<div id="blog-list">',
'after' => '</div>',
) );

}

Thank you to everyone who helped and provided information.

[Author]

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