Display posts on front page

Question

I want to display posts on my wordpress site on the front-page.php template. How do I make this possible without having it as a static page..?

    <div id="primary" class="site-content">

        <div id="content" role="main">

            <?php while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); ?>

                <?php if( is_home() ) : ?>
                    <?php get_template_part( 'content' ); ?>
                <?php else : ?>
                    <?php get_template_part( 'content', 'page' ); ?>
                <?php endif; ?>

                <?php comments_template( '', true ); ?>

            <?php endwhile; // end of the loop. ?>

        </div><!-- #content -->
    </div><!-- #primary -->

ThomasB ThomasB · Accepted Answer · 2014-05-05T11:46:10

Easy to go :) This one will add a list of 5 posts (read the inline marks) with title und shortdescription (if you set the readmore tag to your posts)

<ul>
<?php $the_query = new WP_Query( 'showposts=5' ); ?> <!-- change the number "5" to the number of posts you want to display -->
<?php while ($the_query -> have_posts()) : $the_query -> the_post(); ?>
<li><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></li>
<li><?php the_excerpt(__('(weiterlesen)')); ?></li> <!-- change "weiterlesen" to the value you want to display as "read more..." -->
<?php endwhile;?>
</ul>

OR this one will show the full content AND display a readmore tag if set it.

<ul>
<?php $the_query = new WP_Query( 'showposts=5' ); ?><!-- change number of posts to be displayed here -->
<?php while ($the_query -> have_posts()) : $the_query -> the_post(); ?>
<li><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></li>
<li><?php the_content(__('(weiterlesen)')); ?></li><!-- change the "read more" value by changing "weiter lesen..."
<?php endwhile;?>
</ul>

Or as the third option - the following will add a title per post with an excerpt limited to 200 characters if you didnt set the readmore tag.

<ul>
<?php $the_query = new WP_Query( 'showposts=5' ); ?><!-- change the number of posts here again -->
<?php while ($the_query -> have_posts()) : $the_query -> the_post(); ?>
<li><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></li>
<li><?php echo substr(strip_tags($post->post_content), 0, 200);?></li><!-- change the 200 to the number of characters you want to display -->
<?php endwhile;?>
</ul>

Hope this one will solve your problem.

All the best Fabian

Display posts on front page

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