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Community Forums › Forums › Archived Forums › Design Tips and Tricks › How to get Featured Posts on static home page

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Tagged: featured posts, Newsletter banner, static homepage

  • This topic has 11 replies, 5 voices, and was last updated 8 years, 7 months ago by Genesis Developer.
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  • April 29, 2013 at 1:59 pm #38457
    aariade
    Member

    I have Streamline theme and I just created a static front page and a separate page for my blog.  When I did that, the Featured Posts and Newsletter banner below the header stayed on my blog page and not the homepage.  Both are widgets. Is there a way to add these to my new static homepage instead of my blog?  Thanks in advance!

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    April 30, 2013 at 9:44 am #38569
    lynnemiller
    Member
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    April 19, 2014 at 3:35 am #101257
    janosch
    Member

    Hi lynnemiller,

    I'm interested in the answer as well. Is there a chance to read it?

    Thanks
    Jan

    August 6, 2014 at 11:25 pm #117517
    sportydave
    Participant

    Bump! I would like to have 3 or 4 posts of my choosing appear as an excerpt with a thumbnail at the bottom of my static home page. Why is this proving so hard!

    Using Epik theme.


    Kind Regards,
    David Trounce

    August 7, 2014 at 5:27 am #117544
    janosch
    Member

    Hi David,
    still searching for the answer how to get the featured posts on a static page (e.g. home, archive page):
    http://peerewju.de/

    If you have an answer, tell me. I will keep you updated as well.

    Cheers
    Jan

    August 7, 2014 at 7:29 am #117559
    sportydave
    Participant

    Jan,

    Thanks. i do not have a satisfactory answer as yet. It seems that some themes (mine is Epik) disable home page widgets for static pages. This seems odd to me. The alternative is post pages (blogs), which already have posts on them.

    For the moment I have had to return to an old favourite plugin - Simon Hibbard's Post for Pages. Always works. However, Genesis should be easily able to accomodate the same thing. Simon has not updaed his plugin for 2 years and it still workds flawlessly.

    I would love a plugin-free solution that doesn't involve a mountain of recoding.

    Keep me posted.


    Kind Regards,
    David Trounce

    August 11, 2014 at 1:42 am #118155
    janosch
    Member

    This plugin you mentioned sounds interesting - not excactly what I need, but nice. There is so much great stuff out there...

    But unfortunately haven't found a solution how to get the featured pages on the static home and archive pages 🙁

    August 11, 2014 at 6:17 am #118163
    Genesis Developer
    Member

    @janosch & @sportydave Please create new post based on your problem. This thread is for @aariade.


    Download Genesis Featured Posts Combo Widget | Simple Grid Layouts Plugin for Posts, CPTs and terms
    You can request new tips/help.

    August 11, 2014 at 6:29 am #118164
    Genesis Developer
    Member

    @aariade Add the following code in your functions.php file.

    Step 1: I am creating a widget area for your static home page.

    genesis_register_sidebar( array(
    	'id'          => 'home-top',
    	'name'        => __( 'Home Top', 'streamline' ),
    	'description' => __( 'This is the home top section.', 'streamline' ),
    ) );

    Step 2: calling the 'genesis_before_content_sidebar_wrap' hook and adding the Home Top widget at your static Home Page.

    add_action( 'genesis_before_content_sidebar_wrap', 'streamline_static_homepage_widgets' );
    function streamline_static_homepage_widgets(){
        if ( is_active_sidebar( 'home-top' ) && is_front_page() ) {
            echo '<div class="home-featured home-top">';
    	
    		genesis_widget_area( 'home-top', array(
    			'before' => '<div class="home-top-wdgt widget-area">',
    			'after'  => '</div>',
    		) );
    
           echo '</div><!-- end #home-featured -->';	
        }
    }

    Now login to dashboard and go to your widget page . Drag & Drop your Featured Posts and Newsletter banner widget in Home Top Widget Area.


    Download Genesis Featured Posts Combo Widget | Simple Grid Layouts Plugin for Posts, CPTs and terms
    You can request new tips/help.

    August 11, 2014 at 6:50 am #118170
    sportydave
    Participant

    Aariade's post is a year old. Chances are he solved his issue. Rather than start a new thread, it seems good to me to have contributed to this once. As it happens, ihave also started my own thread on the same issue. But, perhaps like @aariade i shall be waiting 12 months for a reply.

    Never-the-less, great forum and good to see genuine support happening in the threads.


    Kind Regards,
    David Trounce

    August 11, 2014 at 7:07 am #118177
    Genesis Developer
    Member

    @sportydave Ahh....I did not check the post date. @janosch posted a comment today and this thread is showing at top now. I think that If you create your own thread then you don't need to wait for 1 year. All GF members are very friendly and they are contributing their knowledge here.


    Download Genesis Featured Posts Combo Widget | Simple Grid Layouts Plugin for Posts, CPTs and terms
    You can request new tips/help.

    August 11, 2014 at 7:10 am #118179
    Genesis Developer
    Member

    Hi Forum Moderator,

    Please mark this thread as "CLOSED" . This thread is very old.


    Download Genesis Featured Posts Combo Widget | Simple Grid Layouts Plugin for Posts, CPTs and terms
    You can request new tips/help.

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