Displaying Excerpts On Static Homepage

[Tim.S]

If you're use a static homepage and want to add a blog excerpt or excerpts within main body of the page, whats the best way to achieve this?

I'm assuming a custom page template would need to be created. (Just copy the current template being used)

Then a widget would need to be setup (registered?) on the template. For example, the Genesis featured posts.

Or, might there be a plugin available? Searching a few were found, but they are somewhat dated.

Any tips or guidance would be appreciated.

Note, I'm using the latest Minimum theme.

 

Thanks

 

Tim

[Brad Dalton]

Why don't you modify the default home.php and hide whatever you don't want displayed?

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[Tim.S]

Brad

Actually what I want is for one post excerpt to appear just below the main content on the static homepage. Reading through previous posts and supporting resources, it would appear I could add (register) a widget and place it in the home.php.

I might be overlooking the obvious here. Checking the home.php file I see that it is already referencing,

function minimum_home_featured() {

echo '<div id="home-featured"><div class="wrap">';

genesis_widget_area( 'home-featured-1', array(
'before' => '<div class="home-featured-1 widget-area">',
) );

genesis_widget_area( 'home-featured-2', array(
'before' => '<div class="home-featured-2 widget-area">',
) );

genesis_widget_area( 'home-featured-3', array(
'before' => '<div class="home-featured-3 widget-area">',
) );

genesis_widget_area( 'home-featured-4', array(
'before' => '<div class="home-featured-4 widget-area">',
) );

echo '</div><!-- end .wrap --></div><!-- end #home-featured -->';

With the above code on the home.php, I thought all I would need to do is visit the widget page and assign a widget to the featured area. Yet, after doing so, what has been assigned isnt appearing.

Thanks

 

Tim

[Brad Dalton]

You need to select Front page displays your latest posts in your reading settings and then populate the widgets.

Then you hide whatever you don't want displayed using CSS.

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[Tim.S]

Brad

I tried that and its close, but not exactly what I want. I'll play with the CSS as you suggested and probably can get it to the exact way I want.

 

Thanks for the help

 

Tim

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