Multiple Static Frontpage / Selected Posts on Frontpage

Hi Hari,

You could add this little snippet and set it so the home page only displays posts from a specific category:

function generate_home_category( $query ) {
    if ( $query->is_home() && $query->is_main_query() ) {
        $query->set( 'category_name', 'home-category-slug' );
    }
}
add_action( 'pre_get_posts', 'generate_home_category' );

The idea comes from here: http://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/159689/how-to-remove-certain-category-posts-from-the-blog-page

Let me know if you need more info :)

Hi Tom, thanks, good idea to solve this via category.

As I am not a Wordpress Expert, a short Question:

Do you have a recommendation, how to integrate the snippet into the code?

I guess not by changing GeneratePress functions.php ;)

Do you have a recommendation, maybe a plugin to use?

Maybe this plugin?
Code-Snippet

Thanks!

That's a great plugin to use :)

Thanks, will try!

And if you see the opportunity, to add the functionality to generate press, to have a *list* of pages to be used statically on the frontpage, instead of just one, I would like that too.

Have a nive day!
Hari

Hi Tom, how should I customize the code to make it work with a tag instead of a category?

Try this:

function generate_home_category( $query ) {
    if ( $query->is_home() && $query->is_main_query() ) {
        $query->set( 'tag', 'TAG-NAME-HERE' );
    }
}
add_action( 'pre_get_posts', 'generate_home_category' );

That works, thank you Leo!

No problem :)

Tom,
I need to show multiple categories and exclude a few.
How do I do that?

Any chance you can open a new topic for your question as this one has multiple authors already?

Thanks :)

will do.:)

Thanks

Thanks :)