home page images by category?

If you really only want to show only posts from the category “Featured” you can add the argument [code]’category_name’ => ‘Featured'[/code] to [code]query_posts[/code] in loop-slider.php

I want to clear it up a bit since I think you guys were way more confusing then you need to be!

There are many people out there like me trying to achieve this! And this is – creating 4 specific images to be on the home page rather then the most recent 4 posts. The easiest way to do this is by creating a category called ‘featured’ and then placing 4 posts under that category. (Most of you might want to erase the left & right images) in the folder or just rename them so they don’t show up.

Then replace the code:
<?php query_posts( $args ); ?> ***On line 20***

with this:
<?php
if ( is_home() ) {
query_posts( array ( ‘category_name’ => ‘featured’, ‘posts_per_page’ => -1 ) );
}?>

Just to be clear and confirm:

Go into the loop-slider.php

Replace:

<?php query_posts( $args ); ?>

with:

<?php
if ( is_home() ) {
query_posts( array ( \’category_name\’ => \’featured\’, \’posts_per_page\’ => -1 ) );
}?>

and place:

\’paged\’ => get_query_var( \’paged\’ )

WHERE?

When I replaced the first line the menu and slider and other details disappeared. Any feedback is greatly appreciated as I can’t wait to share our fire art images and info with all of Toronto Canada

Here is the code that I have. All is good except I am not sure where to add Daniel’s
‘paged’ => get_query_var( ‘paged’ ) to query_posts? Any feedback is fantastic and appreciated.

<?php
/**
* The Loop when viewing in gallery mode
*
* @package WordPress
* @subpackage Minimatica
* @since Minimatica 1.0
*/
?>
<?php
global $wp_query, $query_string;
$paged = get_query_var( ‘paged’ );
$args = array(
‘posts_per_page’ => 4,
‘paged’ => $paged,
‘ignore_sticky_posts’ => 1
);
$args = wp_parse_args( $args, $wp_query->query );
?>
//Commented out this next line of code
//<?php query_posts( $args ); ?>
//Added following code from forum – Link: http://www.onedesigns.com/support/topic.php?id=389&page=2
<?php
if ( is_home() ) {
query_posts( array ( ‘category_name’ => ‘featured’, ‘posts_per_page’ => -1 ) );
}?>
<?php if( have_posts() ) : ?>
<div id=”ajax-content”>
<ul id=”slides” class=”kwicks”>
<?php while( have_posts() ) : the_post(); ?>
<?php $thumbnail = null; ?>
<?php if( has_post_thumbnail() ) : ?>
<?php $thumbnail = wp_get_attachment_image_src( get_post_thumbnail_id(), ‘slider-thumb’ ); ?>
<?php endif; ?>
<li class=”slide”>
<div id=”post-<?php the_ID(); ?>” <?php post_class(); ?><?php if( isset( $thumbnail ) ) : ?> style=”background:url(<?php echo $thumbnail[0]; ?>) center no-repeat”<?php endif; ?>>
<div class=”opacity”></div>
” rel=”bookmark”>
<div class=”entry-container”>
<h2 class=”entry-title”>” title=”<?php the_title_attribute(); ?>” rel=”bookmark”><?php the_title(); ?></h2>
<div class=”entry-summary”>
<?php the_excerpt(); ?>
<div class=”clear”></div>
</div><!– .entry-summary –>
</div><!– .entry-container –>
</div><!– .post –>

<?php $thumbnaill = null; ?>
<?php endwhile; ?>
<!– #slides –>
<div class=”clear”></div>
<?php if ( $wp_query->max_num_pages > 1 ) : ?>
<div id=”nav-slider”>
<div class=”nav-previous”><?php next_posts_link( ” ); ?></div>
<div class=”nav-next”><?php previous_posts_link( ” ); ?></div>
</div><!– #nav-above –>
<?php endif; ?>
<?php rewind_posts(); ?>
</div><!– #ajax-content –>
<?php endif; ?>
<?php wp_reset_query(); ?>

Ignore the added \ as they seem to get inserted in spaces of the code