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1. 

   joshuaiz
   Member

   Hi,

   I'm trying to remove the loop entirely from my front page (I'm using a plugin to show just some excerpts with thumbnails instead of the full loop). Basically I have a static front page.

   That said, I tried using the settings under WP > Reading to use a static front page and move the loop to start at page 'News' and go from there but this doesn't work. I created a page called home and I click 'Home' I just get a blank page.

   The ultimate goal is to have the blog/articles start from the News page so that the page navigation, etc will work starting from there.

   How can I achieve this?

   Posted 13 years ago #
2. 

   Jonny Janiero
   Member

   hmmm i dont fully understand.
   can i ask, is the plugin essential? can't you just ammend the index loop to show a number of excerpts with thumbnails?

   Posted 13 years ago #
3. 

   joshuaiz
   Member

   Basically that's what I ended up doing. In the end I was making it more complex than it needed to be :).

   Posted 13 years ago #
4. 

   helgatheviking
   Moderator

   you can switch thematic to just show some excerpts and thumbnails on the front page right. the code is on the forum in multiple places.

   if you create a blank page and call it News. you can set this page to show your blog posts under Reading Settings. OR you could create a page called News and apply the blog template to it. This will also get the News page to display your blog posts.

   Posted 13 years ago #
5. 

   joshuaiz
   Member

   Helga,

   As I indicated above, adding pages and changing the Reading settings didn't work - I just get a blank page for 'Home'. Applying the blog template to the 'News' page does work.

   I also tried filtering the loop to show just excerpts but I must be doing something wrong. Even using this (which I found in the forums) just returns full posts:

   function childtheme_override_content_init() {
           global $thematic_content_length;
   
           $content = '';
           $thematic_content_length = '';
   
           if (!is_single()) {
           		$thematic_content_length = 'excerpt';
   
           } elseif (is_single()) {
                   $content = 'full';
           } elseif (is_tag()) {
                   $content = 'excerpt';
           } elseif (is_search()) {
                   $content = 'excerpt';
           } elseif (is_category()) {
                   $content = 'excerpt';
           } elseif (is_author()) {
                   $content = 'excerpt';
           } elseif (is_archive()) {
                   $content = 'excerpt';
           }
   
           $thematic_content_length = apply_filters('thematic_content', $content);
   }
   add_action('thematic_abovepost','childtheme_override_content_init');

   I don't have a lot of posts so I am using manual excerpts at the moment.

   Posted 13 years ago #
6. 

   joshuaiz
   Member

   Helga,

   Of course you come to the rescue again :) Just got creative with my search terms and found that you had already taken care of this here:

   http://forums.themeshaper.com/topic/post-thumbnail-with-permalink-1#post-13231

   Sorted. Marking as resolved.

   Posted 13 years ago #

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