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Help with wordpress theme design

by captainjacksparrow
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Hey guys any one with wordpress theme development experience

I didn't liked any of premium review theme so I am making a theme myself for reviewing products.

Designing part is done but I want to get specific five posts on home page ranked 1 to 5.

How can I do this.

One method I know is changing the date of wordpress post.But any other method.
#design #theme #wordpress
  • Profile picture of the author rashoman
    You need to learn SEO my friend, both on-page & off-page.
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    • Profile picture of the author captainjacksparrow
      You need to learn SEO my friend, both on-page & off-page.
      What do you mean ? I run my own seo business. This is what I am best at.
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    • Profile picture of the author wizzard74
      Originally Posted by rashoman View Post

      You need to learn SEO my friend, both on-page & off-page.
      That's not what the OP is asking, he wants to know how to get wordpress to show 5 posts of his choosing ranked by a certain criteria to show on the homepage.
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  • Profile picture of the author captainjacksparrow
    Anyone guys
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    • Profile picture of the author Hanneke
      I'm not an expert at all at WP but I would look for a review plugin. There I don't have any experience with a review plug in I'm not able to point you to one.

      Hope this helps?
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  • Profile picture of the author ralphnsk
    It's possible to use custom queries in WP to display a post in a loop, you may choose whatever sorting criteria you want, including ones on custom fields.

    Displaying Posts Using a Custom Select Query « WordPress Codex
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  • Profile picture of the author SteveJohnson
    You use a Custom Field on the posts and sort by the contents. See this page: Class Reference/WP Query « WordPress Codex for more details.
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  • Profile picture of the author Trapped
    Just what Steve said, either use a custom field to be able to query that specific custom field key or simply query the posts through their post ID.

    This can help you: Class Reference/WP Query « WordPress Codex , specific function is under: Multiple Posts/Pages Handling (just search for that exact bolded text in page).

    Hope it helps.
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  • Profile picture of the author rosetrees
    If you're asking what I think you are, you just need to make 5 sticky posts.

    For each post you want to display on the front page, look for "visibility" to the right of the post's editing area. Click on this and put a tick beside "stick this post to the front page".
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    • Profile picture of the author BeautifulWebsites
      Carol, that was the best and easiest suggestion, no extra coding! Brilliant.

      You can find this in your "publish" box under visibility.
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