Title: featured posts section (box like) above posts
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# featured posts section (box like) above posts

 *  [kyriakos_w](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wiseprt/)
 * (@wiseprt)
 * [16 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/featured-posts-section-box-like-above-posts/)
 * Hello there, i run my blog under the [o2 theme ](http://eches.net/test/) and 
   i want to know how i can add a featured posts section above the posts main area,
   something like in sites [here](http://techcrunch.com) and [here](http://gizmodo.com).
 * I search web and i can’t find a plugin or something that do exactly what i want
   to do at all. is there any suggestion with custom template mods or any solution
   to this ?
    Thank you guys

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 *  [Josh Leuze](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jleuze/)
 * (@jleuze)
 * [16 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/featured-posts-section-box-like-above-posts/#post-1334468)
 * You could find a plugin that would add like a slider to the top of your page 
   that cycled through featured posts. But you’re not going to find one that breaks
   the features down into seperate boxes or adds thumbnails.
 * This is typically accomplished in the theme, it looks like your theme is a more
   blog-like layout, you would want a magazine style theme, or to at least steal
   some code from one to create a homepage like the examples you linked to.
 * Check out [Magazeen](http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/02/23/magazeen-free-magazine-look-wordpress-theme/),
   it is a good example of a magazine style layout.
 *  Thread Starter [kyriakos_w](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wiseprt/)
 * (@wiseprt)
 * [16 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/featured-posts-section-box-like-above-posts/#post-1334492)
 * thank you for your reply [@jleuze](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jleuze/),
   indeed my theme’s layout is not so “news” friendly, but i have done a lot of 
   css mods on it, so i decided to keep it!
 *  [Josh Leuze](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jleuze/)
 * (@jleuze)
 * [16 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/featured-posts-section-box-like-above-posts/#post-1334559)
 * Ah, that is a problem then. I would suggest starting by creating a home Page 
   and setting that as your frontpage.
 * It might seem counter-intuitive since you _do_ want your posts on the homepage.
   But once you have Page setup as your homepage, you can create a custom template
   for that Page and add in the more grid-like layout with thumbnails, without messing
   up your archive, index, and category files that you will want to leave intact
   for those sections.
 * Here is some [documentation on creating a page template](http://codex.wordpress.org/Pages#Creating_Your_Own_Page_Templates)
   that should get you started.
 * In that page template you’ll want to [create a custom Loop](http://codex.wordpress.org/The_Loop)
   that only loads the thumbnail, headline, excerpt and other elements of the posts
   that you want.
 * Check out the code in some magazine style themes like Magazeen, you can steal
   a custom loop from there that should work for you.
 * If you want to add thumbnails, I’d suggest using the new thumbnail feature built
   into WordPress 2.9. Here is some [good instructions on how to add thumbnails](http://markjaquith.wordpress.com/2009/12/23/new-in-wordpress-2-9-post-thumbnail-images/).

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