Raw Code method to make a custom blog page in wordpress

When I first started Balkhis, I wrote about Creating your own Custom wordpress page in which I discussed two ways to making a custom wordpress homepage, but I only shared one method of making a custom blog page and that was through the WP-admin method.

I recommend the users to read the post I just linked to above before continue reading this one because you won’t get lost if you read that post first.

Well, sometimes you might not want to use the WP-Admin functions to set custom homepage and separate blog page. Therefore you will go ahead and use what I called the Raw Code method to make a homepage.

<br /> <?php<br /> $homepage = get_settings('siteurl')."/";<br /> global $wp; $wp_received_argument = false;<br /> foreach ($wp->query_vars as $k=>$v) if ($v) $wp_received_argument = true;<br /> if ($wp_received_argument) {<br /> include(TEMPLATEPATH . “/index.php”);<br /> } else { ?></p> <p>Here is whatever you can put any html code you like.</p> <p><?php } ?></p> <p>

Now you want to make a blog page, so in this post I will be sharing the codes to display your posts in wordpress through RAW Codes.

Basically just copy and paste the codes below in your page-blog.php or whatever you want to call that file.

<?php $page = (get_query_var(’paged’)) ? get_query_var(’paged’) : 1; query_posts("showposts=15&paged=$page"); while ( have_posts() ) : the_post() ?>

Change the 15 to whatever you like and it will be the number of posts shown on that page. Now you need to follow rest of the index.php settings to align the posts and all the good stuff.

I will put an example of a text file that you can use:

<br /> <?php $page = (get_query_var('paged')) ? get_query_var('paged') : 1; query_posts("showposts=5&paged=$page"); while ( have_posts() ) : the_post() ?></p> <div class="post" id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>“></p> <h2><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>” rel=”bookmark”><?php the_title(); ?></a></h2> <div class="entry"><?php the_excerpt(); ?><br /> <b><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>” rel=”bookmark”>Read The Full Post about <?php the_title(); ?> by clicking here.</a></b></p></div> </div> <p> <?php endwhile; ?></p> <p>

The above page should do the job well. Now you have the code to display latest posts on any page of your blog by just adding a simple .php file.