Show latest 3 posts of home category

[heavenorshell 0]

I use the blogpage as my homepage and I would like the homepage only to show the latest 3 posts from one single category (view link http://heavenorshell.se.preview.binero.se/). Just now I have added: add_action('pagelines_before_theloop', 'exclude_cat'); to exclude all other categories but I guess it must be an easier way to just show this specified category with the latest 3 posts.

[cmunns 16]

that looks like the beginning of a hook but you haven't specific the function. For more reference check here http://www.pagelines.com/docs/base-child-theme

[heavenorshell 0]

I have tried replacing the exclude_cat hook with the following: ` add_action('pagelines_before_theloop', 'include_cat'); function include_cat(){ if (is_home()) { query_posts("cat=31;&showposts=3;"); } } ` with the intension to show only this specified category with the 3 latest posts, but it seems to give me an archive-look, see link (http://heavenorshell.se.preview.binero.se/) and I would like it to look as shown in this picture ( ) Any ideas of where I did go wrong?

[catrina 103]

In which template are you implicating the hook?

[heavenorshell 0]

In functions.php in platformbase.

[Andrew 207]

Hi Kristina, Could you just turn off 'Magazine Layout' Mode to get the posts looking that way? Also, you can hide certain things like the `Du tittar p?? kategori: "Senaste nytt"` with Custom CSS. Does that help?

[heavenorshell 0]

Hi Andrew, Thank you for your answer, but I am sorry to say that turning off Magazine Layout did not solve the problem. It gave me three posts from the specified category but viewed them in their whole length, which I do not prefer. And the funny thing is that my hook still shows up as if I looked into a category page, which I did not intend it to be. And I do not want to hide that with custom CSS, as I like it to show up on category pages. But when I used this code:

add_action('pagelines_before_theloop', 'exclude_cat');
	function exclude_cat(){
		if (is_home()) {
			query_posts("cat=-5,-7,-1,-6,-8,-9,-10,-11,-12,-13,-14,-15,-16,-17,-18,-19,-21,-22");
		}
	}	

it all worked out fine (as in this picture: ) except that it was impossible to decide how many posts I wanted to show up. And that hook did not act as if I wanted to show a category page.

[cmunns 16]

I would turn off magazine mode. Then when it is showing them in full-width make sure in your Blog and Posts Options you check the appropriate boxes for when/where to show full post v excerpts...if that does not work then we can modify the postloop a touch

[heavenorshell 0]

Voila! The only bad thing with platformpro is that you have too many options to choose from... I thought I had tried all options in settings for blog and posts but apparently not. Now it is working, the only thing I have to get rid of is the statement about

 Du tittar p?? kategori: "Senaste nytt"

but I guess I can try some Custom CSS. Thank you so much!

[bryan-hadaway 3]

`.home .current_posts_info{display:none}` Thanks, Bryan