How to design custom home page

[theUser]

Hello there.
I want to re-design my own blog with a custom home page but I do not know how to start coding. My home page design is about add 5 featured post (widget) before post listing. For reference check out http://goo.gl/2RFse.

Please advice me.

Pernando Ritonga

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[Brad Dalton]

You could add 2 widgets using the genesis_before_loop hook and add content columns for 2 and columns to the widgets.

Another way would be use a custom grid loop or you could create multiple widgets side by side.

One of the benefits of owning the Pro plus package is the fact you get access to all the code. You could take the code from the home.php file from any child theme and use that in your custom theme. Far easier than writing the code and learning PHP coding.

Here's the code for adding one widget area to the home page.

Please copy this code from the view raw link and paste this code at the end of your child themes functions.php using a code editor.

You can duplicate this code and change the third parameter from ,5 to ,15. Also change the i.d for the widget.

Non coders should install WordPress locally and test the code before editing a live site.

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[theUser]

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[Brad Dalton]

Sorry but i don't receive private replies for some reason. You can contact me using my email [email protected]

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[theUser]

Hello Mr. Dalton. Thank you for your kindness.

I’m sorry. After my above post, I tried googling and found a few things on Mr Brian site and code snippet/tutorial on my StudioPress account. And I tried a few things.

Child theme : Goblogoon Theme

1. I’ve added a widget before content. Here’s my code:

<?php

add_action( 'genesis_meta', 'goblogoon_home_genesis_meta' );
/**
 * Add widget support for homepage.
 *
 */
function goblogoon_home_genesis_meta() {

	if ( is_active_sidebar( 'home-featured-post' ) ) {
	
		add_action( 'genesis_before_content', 'goblogoon_home_loop_helper' );

	}
}

/**
 * Display widget content for home featured sections.
 *
 */
function goblogoon_home_loop_helper() {

	if ( is_active_sidebar( 'home-featured-post' ) ) {

		echo '<div id="home-featured-post"><div class="wrap clearfix">';
		dynamic_sidebar( 'home-featured-post' );
		echo '</div><!-- end .wrap --></div><!-- end #home-featured-post -->';	

	}

}

genesis();

And then, create home.php. Here my code that take it from my balance child theme:

<?php

add_action( 'genesis_meta', 'goblogoon_home_genesis_meta' );
/**
 * Add widget support for homepage.
 *
 */
function goblogoon_home_genesis_meta() {

	if ( is_active_sidebar( 'home-featured-post' ) ) {
	
		add_action( 'genesis_before_content', 'goblogoon_home_loop_helper' );

	}
}

/**
 * Display widget content for home featured sections.
 *
 */
function goblogoon_home_loop_helper() {

	if ( is_active_sidebar( 'home-featured-post' ) ) {

		echo '<div id="home-featured-post"><div class="wrap clearfix">';
		dynamic_sidebar( 'home-featured-post' );
		echo '</div><!-- end .wrap --></div><!-- end #home-featured-post -->';	

	}

}

genesis();

Is it better to use ‘genesis_before_loop’ instead of ‘genesis_before_content’? Advice me, please?

I see there are some similarities with yours. But the fact is, when I try it (my code) on the local host, it became fullwidth and genesis featured post reduce the number of front-page post. It mean, If I set 10 posts to show at the front page, 5 post for genesis featured widget, then appear 5 post only under widget.

Q: What’s the different of ‘genesis_before_loop’ and ‘genesis_before_content’? Do I have complete the home.php code?

Advice me, please?

I became increasingly curious.

[Brad Dalton]

The code i embedded doesn't display any posts on the home page. You can easily create a new page and select the blog page template to display a list of posts.

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[theUser]

Correction for my no 1 code (functions.php):

//* Register a new sidebar
genesis_register_sidebar( array(
	'id'  			=> 'home-featured-post',
	'name'			=> __( 'Home Featured Post', 'goblogoon' ),
	'description'	=> __( 'Featured Post widget before post list!', 'goblogoon' ),
) );

The code i embedded doesn’t display any posts on the home page. You can easily create a new page and select the blog page template to display a list of posts.

It mean we need to set Reading Setting on Setting Panel WordPress Admin to static page, blog as post page? How about home page section?

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