Can any WordPress experts help me with something please?

[Darrell]

Can anybody help me with this Wordpress problem please?

I want to have a static front page (I can do that myself ) with a block of random thumbnail links to posts like a TGP. I can't figure how to do this

Thanks

[AdultKing]

Use the Headway theme and some code like below.

PHP Code:

<?php query_posts('showposts=999&random=true');?>
<?php if ( have_posts() ) : while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); ?>
    <div>
        <h1><?php the_title(); ?></h1>
        <p><?php postimage('thumbnail'); ?></p>
    </div>
<?php endwhile; else: ?><p>Oops, no posts!</p><?php endif; ?>

You'd have to tweak the code to get exactly what you want. The code above grabs a random post and displays the title and post thumbnail.

[AdultKing]

PHP Code:

<?php global $post;
$rand_posts = get_posts('numberposts=6&orderby=rand');
foreach( $rand_posts as $post ) : ?>
<a href="<?php the_permalink($page->ID) ?>" title="<?php the_title(); ?>">
<?php echo get_the_post_thumbnail($post->ID, 'thumbnail'); ?></a>

<?php endforeach; ?>

Another snippet that should help.

[Darrell]

Thanks for replying AdultKing but I should have mentioned I'm using the Thesis theme. I will try your php code anyway.

Thanks

[jimmycooper]

Lol. I was about to tell you to click on my sig and look for the thesis banner. If you can't figure it out, email to remind me in the morning and I'll show you how to do it on thesis.

[AdultKing]

Originally Posted by Darrell

Thanks for replying AdultKing but I should have mentioned I'm using the Thesis theme. I will try your php code anyway.

Thanks

The code will work with Thesis, simply use a hook at the appropriate position and include the code.

[DamageX]

Originally Posted by AdultKing

The code will work with Thesis, simply use a hook at the appropriate position and include the code.

You forgot to post your affiliate code for Thesis. Here you go: http://oodl.net/thesis.

[fris]

never liked thesis myself

[OneHungLo]

Originally Posted by DamageX

You forgot to post your affiliate code for Thesis. Here you go: http://oodl.net/thesis.

[DamageX]

Originally Posted by fris

never liked thesis myself

It's a piece of shit. You can do the same things it does, at least in terms of SEO, with plain WP and Wordpress SEO plugin. The only reason it's so popular is because they have an affiliate program and people like AdultKing hype the fuck out of it just to make a few bucks in affiliate commission.

[fris]

Originally Posted by DamageX

It's a piece of shit. You can do the same things it does, at least in terms of SEO, with plain WP and Wordpress SEO plugin. The only reason it's so popular is because they have an affiliate program and people like AdultKing hype the fuck out of it just to make a few bucks in affiliate commission.

thesis and headway are easy to use backend wise, but if you wanna do any custom code for these frameworks, you really have to know the code of the framework itself since it uses its own hooks.

if you are just using it for the backend its great, but writing custom code for these frameworks are more of a pain than its worth.

genesis by studiopress is a decent framework. also bolts i been using lately and its nice.

http://themejack.net/bolts/

[barcodes]

I don't mean to hi-jack the thread but I do have a question.

I recently started using wp, maybe a few months ago.
The way I have been doing it was coming up with a design in photoshop and building the pages manually.

I initially used this as a reference to get started:
http://www.wpdesigner.com/2007/02/19...ss-themes-huh/

So should I just be buying themes instead of doing it myself? Are you limited in any way when you use these themes?
Like is the code so clusterfucked because of all the extra stuff, is it hard to work your way around it? I am used to skinning stuff like magento or mura cms so I am assuming it shouldn't be too difficult but I don't want to but a membership somewhere or a couple hundred bucks and spend more time on it than I would myself for free.

I honestly thought most of the wp designers were building their own sites from scratch as well.
Something else to look into I suppose, lol.

Again, sorry to hijack, I sincerely hope you find a quick and easy solution to your theme issue.

[raymor]

Edit - Ignore the following. I just saw the random part.

A static front page, eh? You don't need no special theme for a static page.

File menu - Save As.
Edit it.
Save as index.html

In .htaccess:

DirectoryIndex index.html index.php
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule index.php$ index.html

[barcodes]

Originally Posted by raymor

Edit - Ignore the following. I just saw the random part.

A static front page, eh? You don't need no special theme for a static page.

File menu - Save As.
Edit it.
Save as index.html

In .htaccess:

DirectoryIndex index.html index.php
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule index.php$ index.html

I would say maybe make like default.php for your static home page and do what raymor says htaccess wise to point to it.

Maybe you can do something like this on default.php for the random links.
http://www.designplace.org/scripts.php?page=1&c_id=13

best of luck

[DamageX]

BTW, all the solutions to the problem posted in this thread suck donkey balls and are over-complicating things.

Log into your Wordpress, go to pages and create a new page, put in it everything that you want displayed as your front page.

Then go to Settings -> Reading -> Front page displays and select the option that says "A static page". Scroll down in the menu below and select the page you just created. Done.

[Why]

thesis, lol.

the php code shown above will work but is likely to show duplicates. and DamageX is correct on easiest way to show the page on front, but i think the OP said he knew how to do that in the OP.

[fris]

ya no need for extra code when you can select your page