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Posted by Suleiman Leadbitter
Suleiman Leadbitter
15,805 Points

Just show the latest (full page) post on homepage

I had a piece of code for the functions.php a few years back that when you went to the main url of the WordPress site ie http://www.mysite.com it automatically loaded up the latest post.

I can't seem to find that code anywhere now and if anyone knows how I could do this that would be awesome.

1 Answer

Zac Gordon
STAFF
Zac Gordon
Treehouse Guest Teacher
Zac Gordon
Zac Gordon
Treehouse Guest Teacher

You can just write a custom query with WP_Query that displayed the post you wanted. If you want to put the query in your functions.php file you can wrap it in a function and just call that in your front-page.php template.

Suleiman Leadbitter
Suleiman Leadbitter
15,805 Points

Cheers Zac Gordon. Someone on the Facebook Treehouse Group pointed me to an old post I actually made with this link on which does the trick - http://wordpress.org/support/topic/only-show-latest-post-and-comments-on-front-page

Thanks for the time and help :)