I need code to get one category - including its sticky post and a custom featured post box on my front page. I am using twenty twelve. I have created a child theme. I have wordpress 3.6 on a wordpress.org site.
I selected "your latest posts" under Static Page in the theme customize tab for my front page. I want posts from only one category (vacation) to appear on my front page. I want them to include the sticky post in that category along with my custom featured post box. Getting the featured post box is important.
I changed the style.css - in my child theme - to modify the appearance of the featured post box:
/* change Featured Post box appearance */
article.sticky .featured-post {
border-top: 4px double #4275b1;
border-bottom: 4px double #4275b1;
color: #08b8c3;
font-size: 13px;
font-size: 1.25rem;
line-height: 3.692307692;
margin-bottom: 24px;
margin-bottom: 1.714285714rem;
text-align: center;
}
Then I changed the wording that appears in the featured post box in my (child theme) content.php.
The combination of these two files with my "latest posts" selection and the standard index.php makes the front page look the way I want design wise...but I only want one category of posts (vacation) to appear on the front page and I want the sticky post in that category to display the featured post box. I get the sticky post (with the box) plus all other posts (from every category) when I use the standard index.php file.
So I tested (changing the index.php) and was able to show both posts from the vacation category. And none from other categories. However, although the sticky post (from the "vacation" category) shows, I lost the "featured post box" part. (The "vacation" category is the only category where I have a sticky post.)
So I think that instead of using just a category, I need to somehow incorporate the "is sticky" part to get the featured post box to show.
Can anyone help me with 1. what code to modify and 2. in what template I can do this? I have been searching and testing for 3 days. So I stopped and I just put the original index code which populates the front page with the right sticky and featured post box but multiple categories.
Thank you for any assistance or suggestions- hopefully at a level for someone who is just technical enough to be dangerous :)
I think that this post may have part of the answer I need, but I just want one category of post(s)on the front page - including the one I set as sticky which should show up with the featured post box.