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I am currently learning PHP & how to customize Wordpress.

I have a shop that I set up on Wordpress using the Woocommerce plugin. The shop holds only a single item. Since I only have 1 item to sell, I would like to show the product on my homepage in such a fashion where the complete product page is shown on the homepage.

Here is some code i've been trying to get to work (this is placed in the home.php file):

$prodpage = array(
'post_type' => 'product',
'posts_per_page' => 1,
'taxonomy' => 'banner',
'term' => 'banner'
);
$featured_query = new WP_Query( $prodpage );

if ($featured_query->have_posts()) :   

    while ($featured_query->have_posts()) :   

        $featured_query->the_post();  

        $product = get_product( $featured_query->product->ID );  

    // Product Info Output Here

endwhile;  

endif;  

wp_reset_query(); // Query Reset

I have also tried using query_posts in this manner: 

if ( is_home() ) {
query_posts( 'p=31' );
}

The good news is that I don't get flagged for any syntax errors. The bad news is that I am afraid my logic is off somewhere as I get a page with only the WP header and footer. The mid section where the product should show up is not showing up.

I really appreciate any guidance you guys are able to give! :)

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  • Replace the curly quotes in ‘banner’ and other occurrences with simple quotes '.
    – fuxia ♦
    Dec 3, 2013 at 19:06
  • Thank you for catching that!! I took out the curly quotes as directed. Unfortunately, that didn't enable the information to show up. :(
    – Miss_Scarlett80
    Dec 3, 2013 at 19:45
  • Next step: Read this thread.
    – fuxia ♦
    Dec 3, 2013 at 19:47
  • 'term' doesn't exist as parameter for WP_Query, it should be 'terms'. Besides that, it should be part of a 'tax_query'; the 'taxonomy' parameter too. But because you only have and want one product there is no sense in that, you don't need it.
    – Nicolai Grossherr
    Dec 3, 2013 at 20:42
  • Thank you both! I am reading up on queries now. Great information in the article you posted, toscho! I was going back and forth between the Wordpress Codex and PHP manual but wasn't 100% solid in my understanding. The link you posted helped fill in the gap! Thank you!
    – Miss_Scarlett80
    Dec 3, 2013 at 21:05

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Why not just use the product_page shortcode?

In the page content:

[product_page id="31"]

In code in the home page template:

<?php echo do_shortcode('[product_page id="31"]'); ?>
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  • Wow! Thank you! I came across that method in my search but felt (read assumed) that it would only pull up the thumbnail and add-to-cart button. Yeah... assumptions. Sheesh. Again, Thank you! :)
    – Miss_Scarlett80
    Dec 3, 2013 at 20:50
  • the [product] shortcode does that :)
    – webaware
    Dec 3, 2013 at 20:52
  • I tried that but it only showed the thumbnail and an add-to-cart button. The code snippet you provided for the manual shortcode actually showed the complete product page. I wonder if all I needed to do was put [product_page id="31"] in my Wordpress post. Would the complete page have showed up then? Off to test!
    – Miss_Scarlett80
    Dec 3, 2013 at 21:06

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