How to display post category archive as home page

Hi there,

that user was requiring something more complicated as it was for a Custom Post Type.
Are you wanting to display the normal Posts?

Hi,
I simply want a specific category post archive to be displayed in the home page (instead of all categories of posts). Like I want to display only 'News' category articles on the homepage.

Got it. Thanks.

The simplest way would to be to use a Plugin. WP Show Posts is perfect for adding post grids to a static page which means you can add other content to the page. It's one of Tom's plugins so is super lightweight:

https://wpshowposts.com

See I told you earlier that I would not use any plugin for this. They will be putting some extra burden on my resources. And I found Mr. Tom was guiding with the code for the same.

So, I would appreciate if you can help me out of the situation through PHP codes.

Thanks.

Not sure if it will work, but you could try this:

add_action( 'pre_get_posts', function( $query ) {
    if ( $query->is_home() && $query->is_main_query() ) {
        $query->set( 'cat', '123' );
    }
} );

You'd just need to:

1. Set your front page to display posts.
2. Update 123 to the ID of the category you want to display.

You are superb. your code was working nice. I am quite impressed with your support.

But, I simply made a small change in your code to offset the latest post

add_action( 'pre_get_posts', function( $query ) {
    if ( $query->is_home() && $query->is_main_query() ) {
        $query->set( 'cat', '252' );
	$query->set( 'offset', '1' );
    }
} );

The problem is I could offset the latest post from the page but when I go down and click load more button, it loads the same set of posts once again. What to do? Thanks.

You're welcome :)

I am opening this ticket as I have mentioned in my earlier post #877750 that I have a little problem with offset and pagination. Please have a look.