Hello. I know this page is full of random questions from strangers (and now I’m contributing to that), so I’m grateful if I can get any answers at all. Long story short, I have maintained a website since April, using a simple free theme (“Ten Blog”) and a home page that is just a list of the latest articles. However, my website now has 120+ articles, so I want to make a simple, static home page that just consists of the 3-4 most recent articles (with featured image) for each article category I have.
I thought this would be an extremely easy thing to find functionality for, but it’s actually been outrageously complex. I’ve installed and uninstalled 10+ plugins today just looking for something that can fulfill this simple functionality without having to suddenly purchase a subscription for some outrageous thing. Does anyone have advice on what I can do to create the basic home page I desire?
Thanks very much.
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, and make your home page your posts, then specify how many you want to display. It should be this easy.
What did you try? Most “recent posts” plugins have the category filter option, but most only output a widget. So one option is to find another plugin to output a widget are in a page. Alternatively, write your own shortcode for it