Featured Images on Front Page

Two categories should do the trick. Featured posts – This category should be applied to posts that you want to show on your home page, with that images grid. You can limit the number of posts (so only the, for example, 6 newest ones would appear) and select the featured image for them on each … Read more

Posts archive index pagination in a static page custom query

When you perform a custom query such as this one, you have to do a bit of a “hack” to get pagination to work properly. Change this: <?php query_posts( “category_name=news&orderby=date&order=ASC&posts_per_page=2” ); ?> …to a WP_Query call: <?php $news_query = new WP_Query( “category_name=news&orderby=date&order=ASC&posts_per_page=2” ); ?> And then you need to *move your custom query object into … Read more