By default pages in WordPress websites will not display blog posts. However, there is a quick an easy way to edit the code of your theme page to handle this.
1. WordPress Theme Page Code
First create a new page for your theme. Then add the following code to the web page in the area where you normally display the main content:
<?php
global $more;
$more = 0;
$post_per_page = 10; // -1 shows all posts
$args=array('category_name' => 'Latest News', 'posts_per_page' => $post_per_page);
?>
<?php query_posts($args); ?>
<?php if ( have_posts() ) : while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); ?>
<div class="post" id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>">
<h3><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>" title="<?php the_title(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h3>
<?php the_content('read more ...'); ?>
</div>
<?php endwhile; ?>
<?php endif; ?>
The above code allows you to select posts from a specific categories and display the excerpts on the page. In this example we select our “Latest News” category – change the ‘category_name’ => ‘Latest News’ to suit your requirements.
You can also control the number of posts displayed by changing the “$post_per_page” parameter.
2. How To Use In Your Page
Very simply – upload your new template file to your themes folder, create a new page in your WordPress admin and assign the new template file to this page.
There you have it – a custom page on your WordPress website showing latest posts. To add more pages just repeat the process by creating a new theme page file and change category name parameter.
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Great post. Haven’t tried this yet but I intend to soon. Does this method display the entire post? What if I want to only show the post headline or headline and an excerpt? And what if I’d like to include a lead in to the post, such as, “Check out my latet post…”
thanks
Hi,
If you want to only show the headline you can remove the code that displays the post content and only show the post title:
<div class="post" id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>"> <h3><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>" title="<?php the_title(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h3> </div>Additional text can be added directly to the code and it will appear in each post entry
Useful post! Thanks for sharing.
I’m stuck do I add the code into the page where I want the blog posts or do I add it into the themes?
Hi Andy,
You add it to the theme file
what do you mean “By default pages in WordPress websites will not display blog posts”..? Isn’t that what WP is mostly about??
The tutorial refers to a “WordPress page”, which has a specific meaning. Pages in WordPress are for non-blog post content that usually isn’t time-dependent – examples of pages you could add to your website are – about us, company profile, contact details, etc. These are created using the “Page” options in the WordPress admin menu.
Pages would generally be accessed via your main navigation or sub-navigation