Do I use custom post type or something else?

  • astewes

    (@astewes)


    10 years, 8 months ago

    I’m looking to add a “News” section to my homepage, and want this to be a link in my admin left panel so I can add articles on the fly by clicking “Add Article” and providing the headline, publication date, publication logo, external URL, and a snippet from the article.

    Initially, I thought of creating a custom post type, “News,” which would give me this ability. But the articles are only intended to display on the homepage, and will take the user to the external source when they click on the image. The articles will not have their own page/post.

    With that being said, is a custom post type the best approach, or is there something better out there?

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  • Laura – WPMU DEV Support

    (@wpmudev-support8)

    10 years, 8 months ago

    Hello Astewes, I hope you are well!

    If I understand you correctly you need to create Blog Page for your website.
    I don’t know what theme you have installed on your site , but usually you can select your page in WP Dashboard -> Appearance -> Customize -> Static Front Page.
    In Front page display select “A static page”. Then select page for your Front page and for your Blog. If you haven’t create those yet, create them in Page -> Add new.
    Don’t forget to click Save and Publish button. 🙂

    I hope this will help!

    Cheers,
    Nastia

    Thread Starter astewes

    (@astewes)

    10 years, 8 months ago

    I have a single-page website, so the static front page is set to my Front Page template. Using a blog page might work for news, but would blow away all of the other sections for which a blog page wouldn’t be appropriate. Are there any other options? I suppose I could use a custom post type, but just never link to it…

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