Comments on: Modifying Wordpress’ Front Page

By: Jazmin

Jazmin — Tue, 13 May 2008 09:09:13 +0000

Hi again,

I think I may have figured it out. It might be a problem with MYSQL on Xampplite, which I’m using.

By: Jazmin

Jazmin — Tue, 13 May 2008 08:54:44 +0000

Hi Ryan,

Thanks for the great post. This is extremely helpful to me.

Except for one problem: My posts are displaying in ascending order (i.e. no matter what I do, my first post is “stuck” in the “newest” post position).

I copied your code almost exactly. I’m developing on WP 2.5.1. Not sure if there’s any other info you need, but any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks again!

By: Barking at the Sun || Blog

Barking at the Sun || Blog — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 15:20:51 +0000

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By: Ryan

Ryan — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 15:37:59 +0000

I read synopsis feeds all the time through bloglines. Sure it wasn’t a glitch? I believe WP publishes the feed based on your backend settings, not on how they’re set to display on the front page.

By: Lonnie

Lonnie — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 13:50:03 +0000

Ryan,

Just curious…..

How do the aggregators feel about the abbreviated posts? Bloglines cut me off when I went to synopses, so I changed back….

Things are looking great!

By: Ryan

Ryan — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 10:38:30 +0000

Cheers Jeremy. Look forward to seeing what you do with it. For myself, I’m a long way from being finished, but as this blog is a hobby, and the other things on my plate aren’t… a man has to have priorities

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 17:17:39 +0000

Hey Ryan,

I like that layout - I might ’steal’ some of your ideas and modify my front page in a similar way. It does look better than long post after long post…

Good advice and code.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 23:44:17 +0000

For the sake of avoiding such confusion, I wonder why they didn’t just give the template files an arbitrary extension like .tpl or whatnot. Meh.

By: Shaun

Shaun — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 16:42:30 +0000

I read the post too fast. I thought you were suggesting that people modify the index.php at the root of their blog. The theme main index page unfortunately, has the same name “index.php”.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 15:45:05 +0000

Sorry Shaun, I think you missed the “index.php of your blog’s template” bit… this is completely independent of core WP files and based totally in the template.

The purpose of this “how to” is to show people interested in creating their own themes (or modifying their current themes) to be able to display with a bit more customization. Using another pre-fab theme defeats the purpose.

And you’re right, you can use a Wordpress Page as your landing page in the latest version of WP. However, that is also outside the scope of this post and does little in the way of what I was looking to do. To add this sort of functionality to a Wordpress page, you’d need to set up a custom page template, hardcoding the above PHP into it, and then use that as the Page set as a landing page. The result would be the same, but it’s a bit redundant.