3 Ways To Display Posts In One Category On Front Page of Genesis

This is a beginners guide to setting up what posts display on the front page of your site.

If you only want to display posts from one category on your front page, please follow these simple steps:

If that’s the case, you can:

Create a new page
Select the blog page template from the drop down menu under Page Attributes
Publish your new blog page
Go to Settings > Reading and under > Front page > a static page > select the blog page as your front page.

Then go to Genesis > Theme Settings > Blog Page Template > Display which category > Select the category of posts you want to display.

You can also choose to displays posts from all categories and then exclude the i.d’s for the categories you don’t want to show on your home page.

Create Page Template For One Category

You can also create a very basic custom blog page template using code like this.

Custom Function

Another option is to use a custom function in your child themes functions file:

function home_one_category( $query ) {
    if ( $query->is_home() AND $query->is_main_query() AND ( ! is_admin() ) ) {
        $query->set( 'cat', 'your category I.D Here' ); 
}
}
add_action( 'pre_get_posts', 'home_one_category' );

Simply replace your category I.D Here in the code above with your category I.D.

Create Page Template For One Category

Custom Function

Other Options