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1. 

   darrenc
   Member

   on the homepage of my site i want to simply display 3 posts from a certain category. i devised this code, put into my child functions.php:

   add_action("thematic_indexloop", "font_page_loop");
   function font_page_loop(){
   	query_posts('posts_per_page=3&cat=40');
   }
   

   however i noticed that now when i try to do other things on the page using "is_home()" they don't work anymore... almost like the homepage doesn't believe it is a homepage anymore.

   i know that i can workaround this by testing for is_category('40') instead, but my curiosity is getting the better of me:

   - what is actually happening here?
   - is this the best way to be accomplishing what i want?
   -- if not... then what is a better way?

   thanks for any replies.

   Posted 2 years ago #
2. 

   lastraw
   Member

   I prefer making a homepage template then adding the code you can find here:
   http://mygraphicfriend.wordpress.com/2010/01/20/wordpress-create-a-page-template-that-displays-posts-from-a-category-that-has-the-same-name-as-the-page/#comment-133
   (via Pictrix)

   Posted 2 years ago #
3. 

   darrenc
   Member

   with respect, i don't think that's the most elegant solution. i've done it in 4 lines of code and without creating additional pages to manage. instead of making another homepage template, i could use the childtheme_override_index_loop() in function.php, but i was option for a surgically precise modification since i only need to change 2 things.

   i'm sure there is a way, and i thought query_posts was it... but like i said, i am getting those weird side effects and am curious why.

   Posted 2 years ago #
4. 

   jmtmay
   Member

   Darrenc, Did you ever figure this out? I'm having the same problem.

   I'm using query_posts, then try to use is_home and it doesn't work. As soon as I take out the query_posts the is_home works.

   Posted 1 year ago #
5. 

   middlesister
   Member

   This is expected behaviour. Using query_posts will make a new database query, and changing the query will affect global values including changing the conditionals.
   http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/query_posts

   You might get lucky if you put in a "wp_reset_query()" immediately after the loop.

   Posted 1 year ago #

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