how to add a blog to a specific section on a wordpress website

Hi,

I am trying to add a blog to a wordpress site, I know wordpress is for blogging but I have used it to make a website. I now want to add a blog to a section of the site and have a blog page too.

could someone please help me

Thank you

 

I can help out if you need someone still. PM me if you still need it.

It would be a very simple task as long as you want just a blog on say a certain page of your site domain.com/blog

 

sidebar plugin

 

Hello,

thank you for your reply's. The domail is www.strive-design.co.uk, on the first page we want the right side to have a blog. I have just put in some fake content to show what it would look like. We would like a blog page, but also say the first 3 blog posts to show on the front page where it says blog too. Do you know how to do this?

Thank you

Leila

 

Hi Leilal,

Create a copy of your page.php, call it page-blog.php.

In the top add:

<?php
/*
Template Name: blog
*/
?>

Code (markup):

In the area where the content should come, add:

     <?php
 $lastposts = get_posts('numberposts=2');
 foreach($lastposts as $post) :
    setup_postdata($post);
 ?>
 <h2><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>" id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h2>
<small><?php the_time('l, j F Y') ?> <!-- by <?php the_author() ?> --></small>

<?php the_excerpt(); ?>
<a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>" title="<?php the_title(); ?>" class="more-link">More <?php the_title(); ?></a>
 
				<p class="postmetadata"><?php the_tags('Tags: ', ', ', '<br />'); ?> Posted in <?php the_category(', ') ?> | <?php edit_post_link('Edit', '', ' | '); ?>  <?php comments_popup_link('Comments &#187;', '1 comment &#187;', '% comments &#187;'); ?></p>
                

 <?php endforeach; ?>

Code (markup):

Create a page called blog, select the template to be blog, and you're done.

If you're still stuck, just send me a PM.

 

Hello,

Thank you for your help.

So do I put this code in the div I want the posts to show up in? I want to make a blog category then only the posts from this category show in the div, how do I put the category info in this code so it only shows posts from this category please?

Thank you