How can I add x most recent posts in middle of my Showcase Pro static home page?

[Canonical]

Can someone point me to samples of code that might be called from my static Showcase Pro home page (front_page.php) to render the most recent 10-20 blog posts? Essentially I want a hybrid home page (part static home page, part blog home page).

I would like to have teasers with images for each of the posts rendered after the front page widget areas are rendered (Front Page 1-4) but before the Before Footer Widget Area is rendered?

Is this possible?

Thanks!

[Christoph]

Hi,

why not just use the Genesis Featured Post widget in the last widget area or adding an additional widget area for it?

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[Canonical]

Actually I am doing exactly that. On the static home page I am using the Genesis Featured Posts widget to "feature" 4 posts. I going to use the Genesis Featured Pages widget to also feature 4 resource pages. But I still have a need to have blog home page that shows the 10-20 most recent blog posts.

WordPress is totally capable of being used to implement both a static home page and separate blog home page in a sub-folder. Just a short-coming of this particular theme that you can have either a static page OR a blog home page with the layout your want, but not both. Every other blog related page (categories, archives, posts, etc.) look at the default theme layout for the blog when rendering. But the front-page.php template does not

I guess I have to ad some code myself to front-page.php to somehow lookup what the Theme Setting value is for the default blog layout, and set it when it is used to render the blog home page at /blog/. That was the code snippet I was looking for and have been unable to find. I don't really want to hard code the front-page.php template to a particular layout because if I change the Theme Settings for the blog layout, I want ALL blog pages to change, not all except the blog home page.

Guess I'll keep digging.... But it's frustrating as I'm wasting many days on this that I should be using to build out the rest of the site.

[Canonical]

Ooops. Sorry.

Ignore everything above after the 3rd sentence. I have another post about that problem where I have both a static home page and a blog home page at /blog/.

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