Title: Before I install WordPress…
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Before I install WordPress…

 *  Anonymous User
 * (@anonymized-5611)
 * [21 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/before-i-install-wordpress/)
 * I’ve had a look around on the WordPress wesbite, looked at various blogs, and
   skimmed through what looks to be excellent documentation on the WP codex.
 * My question is this….
 * I want to create a homepage that doesn’t display a list of articles/posts in 
   the typical blog fashion, meaning I don’t want my homepage to appear as a straight
   list of posts from top to bottom.
 * Is it easy enough to create a unique homepage by pulling posts from the database
   and displaying them any way I see fit? For example, I might want to display the
   newest post in a highlighted box at the top of the page and then display 3 or
   more older posts in a less prominent fashion with simple summaries, then followed
   by a simple list of, say, 10 links to the posts that are even older.
 * I hope I’ve explained this well enough. I was just curious to know whether such
   a thing is possible, before I committ to WordPress.
 * Thanks in advance.

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 *  [brainwidth](https://wordpress.org/support/users/brainwidth/)
 * (@brainwidth)
 * [21 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/before-i-install-wordpress/#post-205189)
 * You can definitely do this. I haven’t implemented this functionality myself, 
   so I can’t give you any technical pointers, but [this site](http://www.thedigeratipeninsula.org.uk/)
   is a good basic example of what it sounds like you want to do. See [this thread](http://wordpress.org/support/topic/30390)
   for more information.
 *  Thread Starter Anonymous User
 * (@anonymized-5611)
 * [21 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/before-i-install-wordpress/#post-205201)
 * Thanks, brainwidth. Some very useful links there. 🙂
 *  [Lee Penney](https://wordpress.org/support/users/longplay/)
 * (@longplay)
 * [21 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/before-i-install-wordpress/#post-205812)
 * I decided to write up how I do it on the digerati peninsula and my viewfinder
   design site, you can see the write-up [here](http://www.viewfinderdesign.co.uk/archive/27/styling-the-latest-post/).
 *  [moshu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/moshu/)
 * (@moshu)
 * [21 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/before-i-install-wordpress/#post-205813)
 * Another solution is given here:
    [http://wordpress.org/support/topic/28203#post-193667](http://wordpress.org/support/topic/28203#post-193667)

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