Using page template as Static Front Page

Question

I've created a page named "homepage", set the page as front page from Reading > Static Page > Front page and it's nearly working fine. The issue I'm having the blog posts aren't included into the page. It comes with the blank page and I need to change order as "menu_order", not working.

In other words, I need to get the pages in order as same as the navigation.

<?php
/**
 * The main template file.
 *
 * Template Name: One
 */

get_header();

$pages = get_posts(array(
    'posts_per_page' => -1,
    'post_type' => 'page',
    'order' => 'ASC'
));

foreach($pages as $_post) {
    $content = apply_filters('the_content', $_post->post_content);
    $title = $_post->post_title;
    $slug = $_post->post_name;
    ?>

-div class content-

<?php
}
get_footer(); ?>

Answer 1

If you want the page to display your blog posts then you need to either change the front page reading option to latest posts then use either index.php or create a new file named front-page.php.

If you want your page query ordered by menu_order you need to add 'orderby' => 'menu_order' to the query.