Does anyone know how to do multiple home page loops?

[James]

hey all

Does anyone have a code snippet for multiple home page loops?

I need to have one post from a featured category

and then the rest of the page have posts from another category (without duplicating posts from featured if it is in both categories)

as well as a post thumbnail before the post title

 

has anyone seen anything like this around or close or something i could work with

 

would super highly appreciate it  (client project)

 

[wpspeak]

The way I'll do it:

1. Create a widget area before the blog loop. Use the featured post widget where you can choose "Featured" category. If you need more control of the position of the image (like image before post title), install the Genesis Featured Post amplified plugin. The native Featured Post Widget can only align the image to none, left and right only if I'm not mistaken.

2. Use blog page template and exclude the "Featured" category. It should be similar to this http://www.briangardner.com/blog-page-single-category/ BUT you need to put the negative sign in front on the category ID.

3. To swap the position of post thumbnail of post title, there's two method:

METHOD 1: You need to unhook the original one, and hook them back. Here's a sample code:

// Move image above post title
remove_action( 'genesis_post_content', 'genesis_do_post_image' );
add_action( 'genesis_before_post_title', 'genesis_do_post_image' );

METHOD 2: Using the same method as Streamline theme. Here's the code:

/** Add post image above post title */
add_action( 'genesis_before_post', 'streamline_post_image' );
function streamline_post_image() {

if ( is_page() ) return;

if ( $image = genesis_get_image( 'format=url&size=post-image' ) ) {
printf( '', get_permalink(), $image, the_title_attribute( 'echo=0' ) );
}

}

What you need to achieve is actually have almost the same structure with Streamline theme.

Hope this helps

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[James]

Thankyou so much for your detailed reply, that is an excellent idea!

Genius 🙂

 

 

 

[wpspeak]

No problem. I'm pretty sure other folks will have different ways of doing this. But the one I mentioned above might be the simplest one (at least for me)

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