Wordpress - Adding Content in Custom Places

Andrea, the get_template_part function is used to load a template part into your template, not the content or excerpt of a post (unless you are using 'the_content' or 'the_excerpt' in your template part). What your code is saying above is to pull in the code from this file: content-work.php into whatever file the code above sits.

Check out http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_template_part for more info about the get template part function.

Yes, I am trying to use the get_template function to load a template part into my front page. The part I want is the content from the work post. But I do not want the entire content displayed. The lengthy description is fine in the single work page but does not look good in the slider nor the recent work on front page.php. So my question is can I get an excerpt of the content from work post?

Ok, I think I see what you are trying to do, but again, the get_template_part function pulls in a template part from your theme, not a post. If you want to pull in the excerpt from a specific post, you need to query the post with the post id of your work post. Something like this:

<?php
  $post_id = 1;  //this is the post id of the post you want to pull in.
  $queried_post = get_post($post_id);
  $title = $queried_post->post_title;
  echo $title;
  echo $queried_post->post_excerpt; //if you want to pull in the full post, change "post_excerpt" to "post_content"
?>

Andrea,

In your examples you would need to create a file called "content-work.php" in your theme folder.

So what you can do is create that file and inside write something like

<div class="excerpt">
<?php the_excerpt(); ?>
</div>

and then inside of your front-page.php file, wherever you want to display the post excerpts you add

<?php get_template_part( 'content', 'work'); ?>

Ah, I see what you are trying to do. Sorry, I misunderstood, I thought you wanted to show one particular post on the front page. Yes, do what Anthony stated above.

Thank you Anthony and Jason! I will see if the above works for me.