A Bit Of Wordpress Help Plaese

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Hi members,

I have the Atahualpa them on my site and have added a static article on my front page.

My question is this: - I gather I can add snippets of a few articles (say 5) immediately after this but can't seem to get it to work.

Can anyone give me a step by step instruction on how to do this?

thank you,

Mal.
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  • Profile picture of the author Steve Diamond
    Hi, Mal. Have you searched and/or asked at the BytesForAll Forum? I think you're much more likely to get a quick, authoritative answer there.

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    • Profile picture of the author Karen Blundell
      what you are going to have to do is hard code the following into your homepage...in your WordPress dashboard: scroll down to Appearance, then click "editor" and then select the template file that is your home page (home.php perhaps?)
      underneath your current text add:

      Code:
      <h2>Recent Posts</h2>
      <ul>
       <?php wp_get_archives('type=postbypost&limit=5'); ?>
      </ul>
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  • Profile picture of the author LibertyUnc
    Originally Posted by Malcolm Tindle View Post

    Hi members,

    I have the Atahualpa them on my site and have added a static article on my front page.

    My question is this: - I gather I can add snippets of a few articles (say 5) immediately after this but can't seem to get it to work.

    Can anyone give me a step by step instruction on how to do this?

    thank you,

    Mal.
    To do this, log into your wordpress admin panel and then:
    a) Go to "Appearance" -> Atahualpa Theme Options
    b) Select "Posts or Excerpts" from the menu
    c) Set "Posts or Excerpts on HOME page?" to Excerpts
    d) Set "Show the first X posts on HOME page as full posts" to 1
    e) Save your changes

    Your first post ( the sticky ) will show up as a full post and the rest will show up as excerpts. However, I'm not exactly sure how you would specify to only show 5 excerpts short of editing index.php and creating a special check using is_home() to stop displaying posts after however many you want to show.

    I just created a custom home.php file, dropped it in, and put some static information to the left. ( You can see how it looks on my site )
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