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JoshWhite

Does anyone have a good suggestion on how to execute this? What I'm looking to do is have a homepage that is broken up into 3 columns. The first two columns I want to be editable through the CMS. The final right column I wanted to have recent posts coming in.

I was thinking initially to maybe just do 3 separate post loops and query a specific post id for the left and middle columns and then just exclude that post category from the right.

Am I overthinking it?

Senff

Personally, I would do it like this:

Column 1: import/include a page
Column 2: import/include a page
Column 3: the posts loop

The contents for the first two columns would just be pages with an empty template (no header, footer, or any divs -- just basic content). To include these pages on your homepage, you can use this code:

$include = get_pages('include=14');
$content = apply_filters('the_content',$include[0]->post_content);
echo $content;

Where the example "14" would be the ID of your page. So all in all:

<div id="column-01">
	 <?php
	 	 $include = get_pages('include=14');
	 	 $content = apply_filters('the_content',$include[0]->post_content);
	 	 echo $content;
	 ?>
</div>

<div id="column-02">
	 <?php
	 	 $include = get_pages('include=15');
	 	 $content = apply_filters('the_content',$include[0]->post_content);
	 	 echo $content;
	 ?>
</div>

<div id="column-03">
	 [ THE WHOLE LOOP THING HERE ]
</div>

Then again, I'm sure there's better ways, it's just what would work best for me.

TheDoc

Plugin: Advanced Custom Fields.

You can set up two WYSIWYG areas on your 'Home Page' then run a loop in the third column with query_posts.

JoshWhite

Awesome thanks guys I'm going to look at both of them. Appreciate the feedback.

JoshWhite

Thanks again for the info. I ended up employing Senff's solution and it was a very excellent way of integrating everything. I'm looking into the other plugin though... I want to explore more how I can use that in the future :)

cyneWATCH

I would have done what yo originally said, except that the column on the rght could use a widget area with the "recent posts" widget.

sanclementejoe

Senff, how would I do something similar to this. I want a grid of thumbnails on my homepage that each link to a separate page. These thumbnails would pull from the featured image of that page. The page title will also be displayed above each thumbnail.

Similar to http://demo.graphpaperpress.com/mixfolio/ in a way but those thumbnails would be pulling from pages and not images.

Thanks!

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