Hi, I am using the FrontpageSlideshow plugin to display selected posts on my (static) home page so I need to then exclude this category ('slide-show') from the blog pages.
I am trying to do this by overriding the index loop:
//override index loop to exclude slide-show posts
function childtheme_override_index_loop() {
global $options, $blog_id;
foreach ($options as $value) {
if (get_option( $value['id'] ) === FALSE) {
$$value['id'] = $value['std'];
} else {
if (THEMATIC_MB) {
$$value['id'] = get_option($blog_id, $value['id'] );
} else {
$$value['id'] = get_option( $value['id'] );
}
}
}
/* Count the number of posts so we can insert a widgetized area */ $count = 1;
// need to keep track of how many posts I am displaying
$postLimit = 5; // max number of posts to show
$postCount = 0;
while ( (have_posts()) && ($postCount < $postLimit) ) {
the_post();
if (!in_category(array('slide-show'))) {
thematic_abovepost(); ?>
<div id="post-<?php the_ID();
echo '" ';
if (!(THEMATIC_COMPATIBLE_POST_CLASS)) {
post_class();
echo '>';
} else {
echo 'class="';
thematic_post_class();
echo '">';
}
thematic_postheader(); ?>
<div class="entry-content">
<?php thematic_content(); ?>
<?php wp_link_pages('before=<div class="page-link">' .__('Pages:', 'thematic') . '&after=</div>') ?>
</div><!-- .entry-content -->
<?php thematic_postfooter(); ?>
</div><!-- #post --><?php
thematic_belowpost();
comments_template();
if ($count==$thm_insert_position) {
get_sidebar('index-insert');
}
$count = $count + 1;
$postCount = $postCount + 1;
}
}
} // end index_loop
The problem is that it correctly displays the only four posts currently present, but shows the "older posts" links too - which links to a blank page. So somehow I guess my index loop override is failing to influence the thematic_nav_below() function correctly? If I remove my childtheme_override_index_loop() function the older posts link works fine, but of course all the slide-show posts are shown as well... (See here)
Any help appreciated, we need to get this site live ASAP - but isn't that always the way?!
