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Posted by Craig Watson
Craig Watson
27,930 Points

Displaying Page Data From About Page Page on Static Home Page Wordpress?

Hi everyone!

I'm on with a little project just seeing what I've learned and what is possible and I would like to have an excerpt of my about page displayed on my home page.....

From my research of the web I have this below:

    <section class="container">

        <div class="row">

            <div class="col-md-6">

                <?php

                    $page_id = 11;
                    $page_data = get_page( $page_id );
                    $content = $page_data->post_content;
                    $title = $page_data->post_title;



                ?>

                <h2><?php echo $title ?></h2>
                <p><?php echo $content ?></p>


            </div>

        </div>

    </section>

I works but its the full page content for obvious reasons but I cant figure out how to get and excerpt of that content!

Also is this the best way to achieve this ?

Thanks people!

Craig

2 Answers

Sue Dough
Sue Dough
35,800 Points
Sue Dough
Sue Dough
35,800 Points

Why would the except show? You never did anything with the excerpt.

Start here. https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/the_excerpt

Craig Watson
Craig Watson
27,930 Points

Sorry I must have jumbled up my question, I know the excerpt wont show not with the code above. I am wanting to replace the code used to get the content with the necessary code for getting the excerpt.

I have had a number of failed attempts so far and wasn't sure if what i was doing was the best way either :)

Sue Dough
Sue Dough
35,800 Points
Sue Dough
Sue Dough
35,800 Points

Okay well erase it all and try this. Make sure the page is named about.

<?php
     $page = get_page_by_title( 'About' );
     $the_excerpt = $page->post_excerpt;
?>
Craig Watson
Craig Watson
27,930 Points

Thanks, Does this need to be in a loop / Query?

Sue Dough
Sue Dough
35,800 Points
Sue Dough
Sue Dough
35,800 Points

No I don't think so.

Craig Watson
Craig Watson
27,930 Points

I ended up with this in the end, I could not get post_excerpt to work correctly...

            <!-- Custom Query Column to Loop About Us Page -->
            <div class="col-md-6"> 

                <!-- Custom Query args -->
                <?php

                    $args = array(

                            //Declare page as post type
                            'post_type' => 'page',
                            //Declare page ID
                            'page_id'   => '11'

                        );

                    //Declare variable as your new query data
                    $page_query = new WP_Query($args);

                ?>

                <!-- Open Custom Query Loop -->
                <?php while ($page_query->have_posts()) : $page_query->the_post(); ?>

                    <article>

                        <h2><a href="<?php the_permalink();?>"><?php the_title();?></a></h2>

                        <p><?php the_excerpt(); ?></p>

                    </article>

                <?php endwhile; ?> 
                <!-- //Close Custom Query Loop -->      

            </div>
            <!-- //Close Custom Query Column -->

Thanks for all your advice :)