Title: help adding text to main php
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# help adding text to main php

 *  Resolved [brlbeagle](https://wordpress.org/support/users/brlbeagle/)
 * (@brlbeagle)
 * [15 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-adding-text-to-main-php/)
 * Hey everyone – special thanks to those who have helped me get my site up and 
   running and I think looking pretty good.
    I do have a question for ya – I’m using
   the soho serenity theme and on my front page there are 2 sections I would like
   to add text to (spotlight and upcoming events).j Both sections are part of the
   main php but I think they must also be either part of a category script or maybe
   blog script – I just figure out which. Can someone peek at my source file at 
   let me know? [http://www.beaglerescueleague.org](http://www.beaglerescueleague.org)

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 *  [stvwlf](https://wordpress.org/support/users/stvwlf/)
 * (@stvwlf)
 * [15 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-adding-text-to-main-php/#post-1842047)
 * Hi
 * Its not possible to tell from looking at View Source on your homepage where the
   content for those two columns is supposed to come from. You would have to look
   at the PHP in the template source code. More than likely there are supposed to
   be posts assigned to two categories with specific category names.
 *  Thread Starter [brlbeagle](https://wordpress.org/support/users/brlbeagle/)
 * (@brlbeagle)
 * [15 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-adding-text-to-main-php/#post-1842241)
 * Maybe this will help???
 *  <div class=”left-column”>
    <div class=”title”><h3>Spotlight</h3></div> <?php
   query_posts(‘cat=1&showposts=3’); ?> <?php $posts = get_posts(‘category=1&numberposts
   =3&offset=0’); foreach ($posts as $post) : start_wp(); ?> <div class=”entry”>
   <?php if(function_exists(‘get_the_image’)) { get_the_image(array(‘custom_key’
   => array(‘Thumbnail’,’thumbnail’,’Medium’,’medium’,’Preview’,’preview’), ‘default_size’
   => ‘preview’)); } ?> </div> <?php endforeach; ?> </div> <!– end left column –
   >
 *  [stvwlf](https://wordpress.org/support/users/stvwlf/)
 * (@stvwlf)
 * [15 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-adding-text-to-main-php/#post-1842243)
 * hi
 * yes, that is the code for the Spotlight column. It is including an image from
   each of the first 3 posts in category one, typically the Uncategorized category.
   I don’t see that it is displaying a post title. It is only displaying a post 
   image, if there is one, from the 1st 3 posts.
 * It also seems like incorrect code to me as it sets up a query posts to work with
   a secondary loop but then calls get_posts which is a whole other way to retrieve
   posts.
 * If you want to display the title, change this part of the code
 *     ```
       <div class="entry">
       <?php if(function_exists('get_the_image')) { get_the_image(array('custom_key' => array('Thumbnail','thumbnail','Medium','medium','Preview','preview'), 'default_size' => 'preview')); } ?>
       </div>
       ```
   
 * to this
 *     ```
       <div class="entry">
       <h3><?php the_title(); ?></h3>
       <?php if(function_exists('get_the_image')) { get_the_image(array('custom_key' => array('Thumbnail','thumbnail','Medium','medium','Preview','preview'), 'default_size' => 'preview')); } ?>
       </div>
       ```
   
 * You will probably find a similar code block for the other column. The category
   number in the other block us probably different. You may need to create a new
   category, or else change the category number in the theme to the category ID #
   of the category whose posts you want to display in the column.
 *  Thread Starter [brlbeagle](https://wordpress.org/support/users/brlbeagle/)
 * (@brlbeagle)
 * [15 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-adding-text-to-main-php/#post-1842351)
 * Ok – thats totally over my head 🙂
    I’ll have to figure out something else because
   I don’t have any categories set up at all right now.
 *  [stvwlf](https://wordpress.org/support/users/stvwlf/)
 * (@stvwlf)
 * [15 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-adding-text-to-main-php/#post-1842353)
 * The whole point of that code (and most similar code) is to spotlight a specific
   category of posts in a block on the home page. You must have a way to tell WordPress
   what posts you want to display in a certain block, and assigning posts to a category
   is a common way to do that. It takes about 1 minute to create a new category 
   so that part is not a big deal.
 *  Thread Starter [brlbeagle](https://wordpress.org/support/users/brlbeagle/)
 * (@brlbeagle)
 * [15 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-adding-text-to-main-php/#post-1842376)
 * OK I got that – I think my issue is that I don’t really plan on using blog posts
   as part of this theme. I’d actually prefer to put a column of text beneath each
   of the Spotlight and Coming events headers.
    I might be able to do that by simply
   adding a table but I’m not sure. I may be misunderstanding the use of the term
   post but again, I’m not looking for bells & whistles – I’m looking for pretty
   vanilla stuff 🙂

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