Display Latest Pages and Posts on Homepage Grouped by Category

Hi there,

the WP Show Posts that Leo recommended is the right way to do this, it can manage posts and pages. For styling or customization help you would need to raise a topic here if you own the Pro version:

https://wpshowposts.com/support/area/pro-support/

or here for free:

https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-show-posts/

Hi David,

Thank you for your response.

I want to use the same format as possible on using the "latest posts" featured, with the sidebar as well. See attached – https://i.imgur.com/maPFh0L.png.

Although I figured out how to show the appropriate posts using WP Show Posts, I can't figure out:

a) How to integrate this page with the side bar (shown above) and;
b) How to keep the white (padded) background of the post with a grey background in between (i.e. https://i.imgur.com/ZaAvJYk. All my attempts using the plugin have been unsuccessful.

I feel that this may involve integration specific to this WP theme, so I have posted my question here. Are you able to help me with this?

Within the customizer you can set the Sidebars to display on pages, then the Recent Posts widget will be displayed.
Can you create a new Page and add the WPSP Shortcode to it. I can then have a look at providing you the instruction and CSS to make them match the GP Blog.

Done.

Made it so that the homepage is now a static page. Used WPSP to show the latest Pages (use pages for this example – posts are easy to group).

So how do I:

#1 Group the pages by category (or parent page?)
#2 If grouping the pages by category, is there a better way to assign categories to pages then this (outdated) plugin: https://wordpress.org/plugins/post-tags-and-categories-for-pages/
#3 Have the first page in each category be a "featured" post type?
#4 Add a side bar?

That said seeing the page now, I would much rather a nice looking category grouping (i.e. questions #1-3) then have a side bar.

Thank you for your prompt responses David :)

1. Create a separate WPSP list for each Category. There is a category filter on the post tab. Then just add multiple shortcodes to your page content. Please note the warning in WPSP about using Pagination when there are multiple lists on a page.

2. This seems a little more well supported:
https://wordpress.org/plugins/add-category-to-pages/

3. Thats a PRO feature of WPSP:
https://wpshowposts.com/downloads/wp-show-posts-pro/

4. Customizer > Layout > Sidebars - set the for pages. Or you can use the Layout Meta to add them independently:
https://docs.generatepress.com/article/layout-metabox-overview/

Thank you very much for your help David.

#1 - Done
#2 - Installed – great recommendation.
#3 – Installed as well (premium) – another great recommendation.

If you look at the site now, you can see I've updated it so that there are pages categorised, with the first page as a featured page.

But I'm still having a bit of trouble with #4.

How can I implement this sidebar such that it will be there for only my homepage, and not all of my other pages? Thanks Dave!

OK for the front page only use the Layout Element:

https://docs.generatepress.com/article/layout-element-overview/

Just make sure in the Display Rules you select Front Page

That is exactly what I was looking for!

Thank you very much for your time David! :)

You're welcome