[craiginthebox]

@sakin Your solution worked! Thank you very much for your help and your patience.

[craiginthebox]

@Sakin Thank you. I now understand that I didn’t need to use a custom page template.

I’ve created a new file, “front-page.php,” using the sample code you gave me and it successfully display a blog excerpt on the home page, BUT it does not display within the main content area of the page. The blog excerpt displays below it, between the main content area of the page and the footer.

Is there a way to have the blog excerpt display below the text of the page, but within the main content area of the page?

[craiginthebox]

@Sakin Thanks very much. I’m with you so far. 🙂

I have the home page set to display a static page. I also assigned a custom page template to this “Home” page. The custom page template was create by copying page.php. Within this custom page template I’ve added query code that successfully displays a blog post excerpt on my home page.

The problem is that it displays *outside* (below) the main content area of the page, instead of within it. There doesn’t seem to be a place within the custom page template to place the query code so that it displays within the main content area of the page.

[craiginthebox]

Sorry, the site’s not live so I can’t provide a URL yet.

My question can be summarized as, “With the Catch-Box theme, how can I add a blog post excerpt to the home page, within the main content area.”

(I am modifying Catch-Box via a child theme)

Does this help?…

|——————————–
| [Header]
|——————————–
| [Menu]
|——————————–
| [Main content area]
| Home page title
|
| Home page text content.
| Blah Blah Blah.
| Blah Blah Blah.
|
| <– *here’s where I want the blog excerpt to show up.
|
|——————————–
| Footer
|——————————–

Thank you,
Craig

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