Is it possible to have multiple blog posts show up on a home page?

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1. 

   nabeelahmed
   Member

   Is it possible to have multiple blog posts show up on a home page? preferably in 3 or 4 columns? If yes, how do I go about doing that? Please help.

   Posted 1 year ago #
2. 

   Elliott
   Support

   Hello nabeelahmed,

   If your using Awake then you would just need to set your Blog page to display on your homepage. You can do this by navigating to Dashboard -> Awake -> Homepage and selecting your blog page in the "Homepage Content Area" dropdown.

   As for getting your posts to display in columns this would have to be considered custom work. Some good places to look are jobs.wordpress.net and freelanceswitch.com.

   Good Luck!

   Posted 1 year ago #
3. 

   nabeelahmed
   Member

   If I do that, Is there a limit to how many posts will show up on a home page?

   Posted 1 year ago #
4. 

   Elliott
   Support

   You can select how many posts you want to display in Dashboard -> Settings -> Reading.

   Posted 1 year ago #
5. 

   Greya
   Member

   Hello!
   Is there a solution for InFocus theme to have blog posts on homepage display in form of gallery - as I did here http://greyarium.com/blog/ ?
   I managed to show blog as gallery on the Blog page (I inserted the portfolio shortcode in wp-blog page text), but on homepage it's still in default blog layout (cause it still refers to the default layout of the template_blog.php, as far as I understand). Maybe I have to change some code there?
   Thanks!

   Posted 1 year ago #
6. 

   Elliott
   Support

   Hello Greya,

   Try the solution in this thread,

   http://mysitemyway.com/support/topic/front-page-with-portfolio-below-the-slider

   And let us know if that works for you.

   Posted 1 year ago #
7. 

   Greya
   Member

   Hello Elliott,

   The fix worked like a charm! Thanks a lot!
   Just one more question. How do I show some lines of excerpt there?

   Kind regards, Greya

   Posted 1 year ago #
8. 

   Elliott
   Support

   Hello Greya,

   The excerpts should show automatically from your post content. Make sure that you have some text within your posts. If that does not work for you then send us a link to your page so we can take a closer look.

   Posted 1 year ago #
9. 

   Greya
   Member

   Hello, Elliott,

   I'll turn back to you later with the excerpts question, if don't manage it.

   I have another issue now.
   I've removed all links to lightbox in files: template-portfolio-gallery.php, template-portfolio-full.php, template-single.php (I'm using another plugin instead) and changed respective lines to link images to posts instead on fullsize images (followed these instructions: http://mysitemyway.com/support/topic/links-to-posts-1#post-5905), but I still have lightbox working and images linking to fullsize images in the blog-gallery on homepage ( http://greyarium.com/ ).

   What should I do to remove lightbox there and link images to posts? (I suppose I can disable lightbox allover the site, but I'm not familiar with .js.)

   Thanks in advance!

   Posted 1 year ago #
10. 

    Elliott
    Support

    You will need to find the link for your images and take off the rel = 'prettyPhoto' bit and make sure the href attribute looks like this,

    href = '<?php the_permalink(); ?>';

    Let me know which file you are using, (featured-custom.php or featured-categories.php) and I will point you in the right direction.

    Posted 1 year ago #
11. 

    Greya
    Member

    I'm using 'featured-custom.php'. Thanks!

    Posted 1 year ago #
12. 

    Elliott
    Support

    Alrighty, on line 186 you should see this,

    <a class="load_portfolio_img" style = 'display: block !important; visibility: visible !important; opacity: 1 !important;' rel="lightbox[portfolio]" href="<?php echo $portfolio_video_link; ?>">

    Go ahead and change it like this,

    <a class="load_portfolio_img" style = 'display: block !important; visibility: visible !important; opacity: 1 !important;' href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>">

    Let us know if that works for you.

    Posted 1 year ago #
13. 

    Greya
    Member

    Perfect! Thanks a lot! You rock!
    Don't know how I missed "lighbox" in this file... :)

    Posted 1 year ago #
14. 

    Elliott
    Support

    Glad that worked for you Greya, if you have any other questions then let us know.

    Posted 1 year ago #
15. 

    Greya
    Member

    Hello, Elliott,

    I'm using the homepage-fix as mentioned above - the blog posts on my homepage are shown correctly, but didn't notice then that there is no page navigation - I see the number of posts I've set up in blog settings, but cannot go to another page with later posts from my homepage, as it works in the Blog (http://greyarium.com/).
    I've tried to insert the page-nav code in the featured-custom.php and other files.. without success.

    I also have another new question (don't know how to formulate my search demand)
    Please, have a look at this post: http://greyarium.com/2009/10/dreamer/ -
    My question concerns only posts like this - with only one image:
    Can I remove the first auto-generated thumbnail and leave only the big photo below OR vice versa, leave only the auto-generated thumbnail and not duplicate it with the big image? (maybe one of the variants is easier to make)

    Please, help :)
    Thank you in advance for your time!

    Posted 1 year ago #
16. 

    Elliott
    Support

    Hello Greya,

    For the blog on the homepage you may have to switch the 'paged' variable with 'page' to get the pagination to work. Also make sure that you do not have a static page or have your posts set to display on the front page under Dashboard -> Settings -> Reading.

    As for the image in your post.. is that one of your portfolio posts? If so then you when you edit your post there will be an option called "Disable Portfolio Fullsize Image (optional)" which you will need to check to get rid of that image.

    I sent you a PM, go ahead and email me your featured-custom.php file and we'll see what we can do.

    Posted 1 year ago #
17. 

    Greya
    Member

    Hello again, Elliott.
    I've just updated the inFocus theme to the latest one - Thanks for the great job - you implemented many things everybody was waiting for a long time! Though, I had to completely re-setup the whole design anew.. and I have one question:

    How can I again show my blog posts in form of gallery (on homepage under the slider and on blog page)? (see attachment)

    Previously everything worked great with the featured_custom.php, but previous files are now incompatible with the new theme.
    Please, help!
    Thanks in advance!

    Posted 8 months ago #
18. 

    Greya
    Member

    forgot attachment

    

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    1. Greyarium_1.6_home.jpeg (95.8 KB, 1 downloads) 8 months old

    Posted 8 months ago #
19. 

    Elliott
    Support

    What you can do here is navigate to Dashboard -> your theme -> Homepage and check the "Display Blog Posts" option. Or you can also use our blog shortcodes, http://mysitemyway.com/docs/index.php?title=Blog_Shortcode.

    Posted 8 months ago #
20. 

    Greya
    Member

    I have already checked "Display Blog Posts on Homepage" and added the blog_grid shortcode to the Blog page. At the same time, on the Blog page I have the full_layout selected (anyway, one layout must be chosen) and the blog page (both on blog and homepage) shows just simple full layout - no grid(
    I must be doing something wrong, am I?

    Posted 8 months ago #
21. 

    Elliott
    Support

    Just to let you know, your site is timing out for me Greya.

    You should be able to use the [portfolio_grid] shortcode inside the homepage content editor in Dashboard -> your theme -> Homepage. If that is not working for you then PM us a Wordpress login with a link to your site and we'll take a look.

    Posted 8 months ago #
22. 

    Greya
    Member

    Thanks for such quick replies! Yeah, I know - I'm experiencing some timeouts on the server for the last few days (it's being fixed)..

    I have tried all the shortcode variants:
    - [blog_grid] works but only on homepage. How can I manage to show my Blog page as a grid with a rights sidebar? Inserting [blog_grid] into the page body doesn't help
    - [portfolio_grid] doesn't work on homepage; I've tried to insert [portfolio_grid cat="photography" column="3" showposts="6"] and many other variants (with specified category, without it, without title etc.) and it always shows an error "No portfolio posts were found for the category selected." However, I have 19 posts in this category (I've checked)

    It was a perfect homepage for me as I adjusted it in inFocus 1.6 (as in screenshot above): blog as a grid of photos with post titles under the image (not above as now). I really like all the new implementations of the updated inFocus, but how can I get back my beautiful homepage and blog layout? :) Thanks again for you help!

    Posted 8 months ago #
23. 

    Elliott
    Support

    You'll need to set the columns to 3. See here, http://mysitemyway.com/docs/index.php?title=Blog_Shortcode.

    You can also disable certain features you do not want to display such as the post meta and read more button.

    Posted 8 months ago #
24. 

    Greya
    Member

    Sorry, I didn't mention the whole shortcode I used - I've inserted [blog_grid column="3" showposts="9" post_content="excerpt" pagination="true"] into blog page, but it still shows the Layout selected in "InFocus General Page Options" (right sidebar).

    Is there a way to disable this layout option on blog page, so it shows as defined in the shortcode inserted into Blog page body and not as the layout selected in page options below.
    Thanks!

    Posted 8 months ago #
25. 

    Elliott
    Support

    I'm sorry Greya but I feel like we are just getting more confused. Go ahead and PM me a Wordpress login so I can take a look at your settings.

    Posted 8 months ago #
26. 

    Greya
    Member

    Hello, Elliott!

    Sorry for messing you up like this :) Now when my server connection is back to normal, the [blog_grid] shortcode worked out for me on homepage - I inserted '[blog_grid column="3" showposts="9" pagination="true" disable="more"]'. However, I cannot make it show only images - it has one bug: when I add '[disable="content"]' the images position messes up (see screenshot). When I remove '[disable="content"]' - it okay back again. All other [blog_grid] options seem to work fine.

    And another question turned out: How can I enable comments only for one of my pages (guestbook)? I have already checked the 'Screen Options > Discussion' and 'Allow Comments' on this page, but no comment form is showing.

    Thanks again for your attention and your patience to all my questions!
    Have a nice day! Greya

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    Posted 8 months ago #
27. 

    Elliott
    Support

    When the images start to display weird add [raw] [/raw] tags around the blog shortcode. As for the page comments see here, http://mysitemyway.com/support/topic/no-comments-on-pages-possible.

    Posted 8 months ago #
28. 

    Greya
    Member

    Thanks a lot, Elliott! Both the [raw] tags and the comments tips worked out!
    'Bless ya, fantastic support!

    Posted 8 months ago #

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