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書名： WordPress 2.7 Cookbook
作者名： Jean-Baptiste Jung
本章字數(shù)： 343字
更新時間： 2021-04-01 13:55:51

Creating a Featured Posts block on your homepage

Would you like to make some of your posts stands out of the crowd? If yes, a good solution is to create a Featured Posts block on your blog homepage.

Getting ready

As you can see in the preceding screenshot, before the normal post listing, the blogger set up a Featured Posts block where he or she display the most popular posts.

To achieve this recipe, you only need a text editor and a WordPress theme.

How to do it...

Log in to your WordPress Dashboard, go to Manage | Categories, and create a new category named Featured.
Once you have created your Featured category, simply put your mouse cursor on the edit link related to this category and look at your browser's status bar—you'll be able to see the action=edit and category ID (cat_ID=1, in our case), as shown in the following screenshot:
Open the index.php file from your theme directory.

At the location where you want your Featured Posts to appear, insert the following code:

<?php if (!$paged) { ?>
<div id="featured">
<?php 
    query_posts('showposts=5&cat=5); ?>
    <h2>Featured posts</h2>
<?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
    <div class="featuredElement">
      <h3><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h3>
      <?php the_excerpt(); ?>
    </div><!--/featuredElement-->
<?php endwhile; ?>
</div><!--/featured-->

Don't forget to modify the category parameter on line 4 of the preceding code according to your "featured" category ID.
Save the file, upload it on the wp_content/themes/yourtheme directory of your server, and go back to your WordPress dashboard.

To create featured posts, simply add it to the "featured" category. The 5 most recent posts will be shown on your blog homepage.

How it works...

The earlier stated code starts by looking for the $paged variable. If the page isn't paginated, which means the reader is looking at the blog homepage only, the code executes the query_posts() function with the showposts parameter—to display only 5 posts and the cat parameter. This allows us to only get posts from a certain category, that is, the featured category we had created before.

There's more...

Another interesting use of the Featured Posts block in your blog homepage is to create a widget-ready zone. Widgets will be discussed in the later chapters of this book.

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WordPress 2.7 Cookbook

Creating a Featured Posts block on your homepage

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

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