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Custom Front Page Loop that Displays One Post from Each Category

Learn how to create a custom home page that will display the first post from each category on your site. This series involves using a custom template, creating a custom loop, and using the jCapSlide plugin for adding jQuery.

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Custom Front Page Loop that Displays One Post from Each Category – Part 2 – Create the Static Front Page

This is the second in a short series on creating a custom home page that will display the first post from each category.  In this second part we create a static front page and give it a custom template.  We briefly discuss what a static front page is. Video Transcript Rick: So what we’re going [...]

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Custom Front Page Loop that Displays One Post from Each Category – Part 3 – Create the Custom Loop

This is the third in a short series on creating a custom home page that will display the first post from each category. In this third part we create the custom loop that will display the posts. At this stage we want to display the name of the category and the teaser for the post. [...]

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Custom Front Page Loop that Displays One Post from Each Category – Part 4 – Look at jCapSlide

This is the fourth in a short series on creating a custom home page that will display the first post from each category. In this fourth part we discuss adding a jQuery effect to the teasers that can be created using the jQuery plugin “jCapSlide”. Video Transcript Rick: Okay so that’s the first step. Then [...]

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Custom Front Page Loop that Displays One Post from Each Category – Part 5 – How to Use jCapSlide

This is the fifth in a short series on creating a custom home page that will display the first post from each category and implement the jCapSlide jQuery plugin. In this part we discuss the changes in the HTML structure that are needed to format our content so that it will work in jCapSlide. Video [...]

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Custom Front Page Loop that Displays One Post from Each Category – Part 6 – Configure the Loop to Create the Required HTML

This is the sixth in a short series on creating a custom home page that will display the first post from each category and implement the jCapSlide jQuery plugin. In this part we discuss how to reconfigure the custom loop so that it formats the output using the html structure we need for the jQuery [...]

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Custom Front Page Loop that Displays One Post from Each Category – Part 7 – Add the jQuery Plugin to the Site

This is the seventh in a short series on creating a custom home page that will display the first post from each category and implement the jCapSlide jQuery plugin.  In this part we discuss how to add the jQuery plugin to the site. Video Transcript Rick: The other half of how we did it is [...]

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Custom Front Page Loop that Displays One Post from Each Category – Part 8 – Call the jQuery Script

This is the eighth in a short series on creating a custom home page that will display the first post from each category and implement the jCapSlide jQuery plugin. In this part we discuss how to call the jQuery plugin from within our page. Video Transcript Rick: Then step 2 is actually calling that script [...]

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