Home Page loop : Crowd Favorite Forums

Sean Dean
Member
1 year ago
I'm trying to set up a custom loop for the homepage of my site using JAM 1.4. I've created the static page and it's working. I'm not sure if I need to make a new file in /content/ or what to call it, or if I need to make a custom loop within /loop/. Any help would be great.

- Sean
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Michael Farrell
Member
1 year ago
I'm also looking for information on how to do this. The loops I'm creating aren't displaying anything. Any luck?
Devin Serink
Member
1 year ago
Part of the problem here is naming convention. When you switch to static pages in Settings->Reading you can set both the "Front" page and a "Posts" page. The "Front" page response to is_front_page() while the "Posts" page (the blog) responds to is_home(). Carrington supports a 'home' context, but nothing for the front page.

simply adding a /loop/home.php will work for the "Posts" page, but this doesn't trigger on your new static "Front" page. To add a context for this, I created /plugins/custom_context.php with the function:
```
function custom_context($context) {
  if (is_front_page()) $context = 'front';
  return $context;
}
add_filter('cfct_context', 'custom_context');
```
Now that the context exists, I was able to create /loop/front.php, which would activate as expected.