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Front Page Custom Post Type

by Nick Halsey

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Description

If you use custom post types, you may wish to display recent posts of a custom type in place of recent posts on your front page. A common example is showcasing your portfolio on your front page, with posts being shown elsewhere.

With this plugin, you can select a post type other than “Posts” for the latest posts shown on the front page.

  1. Take the easy route and install through the WordPress plugin installer, or,
  2. Download the .zip file and upload the unzipped folder to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory
  3. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
  4. Go to the static front page section in the customizer, set the front page to show the latest posts, and preview the front page to show the front page post type option.
  1. Front page post type option in the customizer.

    Front page post type option in the customizer.

Where are the options?

Go to the static front page section in the customizer. You need to be previewing the front page

Theme doesn’t display correctly with custom post type

Some themes do not account for post types other than post in their styles. If switching the frot page post type changes the layout, you can try contacting the theme author and asking them to support other post types as well, or you can restore the indended styling with custom CSS based on the theme’s styling for posts.

Works like a charm!

By Lucas (Luquerias) on October 31, 2022

The plugin does what it has to do. Do not look for the options in the admin panel but in the customize front end options.

Works perfectly

By chanelwp on January 6, 2021

Really easy...installed, selected the custom post type, and it works! Thank you.

Did nothing.

By Mav-IT Kft. (mavit) on April 5, 2020

Did nothing.

works well

By geo2arc on January 29, 2020

It is simple and works well. Just go to Customizer > Front page options and select the post type you want to appear on the front page

Did nothing

By ben.at on April 12, 2019

No change in customizer or WordPress read options.

1.0

  • First publicly available version of the plugin.
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