thats how wordpress template works front-page.php is the very first file that wordpress check for the homepage and to be use as a template, if it doesn’t exists it checks another file in specific order like page-slug.php, page-id.php, page.php until it reaches index.php the blog/posts page would first check if home.php exist and if not … Read more
Are you just outputting the pages for the navigation with wp_list_pages() or a similar function? It might be better to use the WordPress Menu feature and create a menu for the navigation, then use wp_nav_menu() to display it. Alternatively, instead of setting a static page in the backend you can edit (or create) the home.php … Read more
Create a page theme, then call it in index.php: $recent = new WP_Query( ‘page_id=**ID**’ ); while ( $recent->have_posts() ) : $recent->the_post(); ?><h3><?php the_title(); ?></h3><?php the_content(); endwhile;
WordPress saves sticky posts inside the option named sticky_posts. You can retrieve them via get_option(‘sticky_posts’). With that knowledge it is possible to change the query to only query for sticky posts, you usually do so via the pre_get_posts hook. add_action(‘pre_get_posts’, ‘WPSE_home_only_stickies’); function WPSE_home_only_stickies($query) { // only run for homepage & main query if ($query->is_home() && … Read more
You don’t say if you are on wordpress.com or self-hosted, or which theme you are using. Does it help to look at WordPress display posts shortcode and put [display-posts] into your page content? https://en.support.wordpress.com/display-posts-shortcode/ If you are self-hosting and your theme supports it (most do), the Display Posts plugin enables and extends this function to … Read more
You can check in your callback function if you are an the front page. Sample code for the theme’s functions.php: add_action( ‘after_setup_theme’, ‘wpse_67480_theme_setup’ ); function wpse_67480_theme_setup() { $bg_options = array ( ‘wp-head-callback’ => ‘wpse_67480_background_frontend’, ‘default-color’ => ‘f0f0f0’, ‘default-image’ => ”, ); add_theme_support( ‘custom-background’, $bg_options ); add_theme_support( ‘custom-header’, array ( ‘width’ => 960, ‘height’ => 200, … Read more
For WordPress to automatically use home.php to render your home page you have to set Settings > Reading > Home Page Displays to “Your latest posts” With that option set WordPress looks to use home.php first, and then index.php (in that order) to output your home page. Read more here.
If you’ve got a front-page.php template, I think this will get used, even if you change the Reading -> Static Page settings: If you read https://codex.wordpress.org/Creating_a_Static_Front_Page you’ll see: ‘On the site front page, WordPress will always use the front-page.php template file, if it exists. If front-page.php does not exist, WordPress will determine which template file … Read more
Normally you’d use the pre_get_posts filter for this, but for your specific case, since you probably want to customize how the posts are displayed (separately), I’d recommend setting a static front page and using a shortcode in the content that uses get_posts (yet this also means that your theme’s “Blog” template won’t be used.) eg. … Read more
WordPress recommends using PHP 7 or greater. So if you are using an ancient version of PHP, you should upgrade your server. After you changed the name of your home page, did you go back to your display settings and check what is set there? Make sure that it is set to the page you … Read more