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I am trying to figure out what is the best practice to allow a customizable static page to show on the top of the dynamic front home page. What I am asking is not using a custom page a such as front-page.php because I would like to setup "Front page displays - Your latest posts" in the Wordpress > Settings > Reading section and the dynamic page to be the front page. What is the way to add some javascript to functions.php or index.php or any other file to load a custom page before the dynamic page so the both pages will show on the home page. I have done it a long time ago and do not remember any more. This is the website I did it for http://superforma.org. The reason I am trying to do it that way is because I am trying to use the templates for the blog style from the theme I am using and do not want to just add the blog section and try to customize. Thank you.

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You will need to edit your front-page template and before (or after) your loop, you need to make a call to get_post() so load your custom page. See the documentation for details.

You can then render your customisable page on the homepage.

For example, if your special page ID is 42:

<?php 
   $custom_page = get_post(42);
   echo apply_filters('the_content', $custom_page->post_content);
?>
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  • Hi there, thank you for the response. I am trying not to use front-page.php and have setup wordpress to show blog on a front page instead of front to be a template page so I am assuming that index.php should be in charge of what is showing on that page. So am trying to add a static page I have designed in wordpress to that front dynamic blog page. I tried to use your advice but adding it to index.php and it didn't work by using the id of the static page. Feb 4, 2017 at 18:18
  • check here letchowebs.com/Test2.png Feb 4, 2017 at 18:25
  • My mistake - you need to change the echo line to use $custom_page rather than $post. If that fails, can you please do a var_dump($custom_page); and show the output? Feb 5, 2017 at 1:00
  • Hey Alex, I have tried your recommendation but it didn't work . Unfortunately I am not familiar with the var_dump function since I haven't done it for a long time so I wasn't able to add it . Just to make sure I am doing the right thing , I am adding custom page function to the index.php file. Feb 5, 2017 at 15:00
  • check here: letchowebs.com/test2.png Feb 5, 2017 at 15:08

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