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Hi Rick,

I was following one of your tutorials as I was wanting to get some posts on my front page.

The tutorial was: Custom Front Page Loop that Displays One Post from Each Category

However, I have tried several different things with the code, but for some reason it prints the first post teaser from each category… PLUS the entire post content for the final post.

Are you able to help me with this code. I have been stuck on it all day and night.

Here is the code. I have been toying around with it a bit just to see what happens, so it is not quite as described in the tutorial, but saves you searching for it:

function byob_front_page_template() {
    if(is_front_page()) {
        $byob_categories = array('19','21');
        $category_args = array( 'include' => $byob_categories);
        
        $categories = get_categories ( $category_args );
        
        foreach ($categories as $category) {
            $byob_category_instance = $category->cat_ID;
            $byob_category_label = $category->name;
            
            $args = array('posts_per_page' => '1',
                'category__in' => $byob_category_instance);
                
        $my_query = new WP_Query($args);
        while ($my_query->have_posts()) : $my_query->the_post(); $do_not_duplicate = $post->ID;
        //    echo '<h4>' . $byob_category_label . '</h4>';
        
        echo thesis_teaser($classes, $post_count, $right);
        endwhile;
        }
    }
}
remove_action('thesis_hook_custom_template', 'thesis_custom_template_sample');
add_action('thesis_hook_before_post', 'byob_front_page_template');

Also, in this type of loop, how would I get the default html structure surrounding my teasers. At the moment, they are obviously quite different due to the css classes.

Much appreciated

Steve

Hi Rick,

I tried your suggestion of using wp_reset_query() after the endwhile which brought me one step closer to success:)

* I no longer get the full content of the last post displaying.

* I'm only getting one post teaser displaying (in total)

* I'm still losing the styling of the post teaser and it's actually mixing in with the post rather than displaying before it (which is possibly just an html/css issue)

Wouldn't you think that in a blogcentric platform like Wordpress, there would be lots of quick and easy built in ways to display post teasers on static pages? Or maybe I just want too much:)