Make WordPress homepage a post category?

Question

Hi,

I am trying to set my WordPress homepage to a category but it only allows me to set it to either the latest posts or a static page.

Is it possible to set your homepage as a post category?

Answer 1

You can create a custom template that mimics a category page using get_posts and set a page using that template to home, but it won't be perfectly dynamic in the sense that you have to hard code the category slug or ID into that query. Assuming that you don't want to change that category often, that shouldn't be an issue. Alternatively, you could use wp_safe_redirect in a template to redirect to the category page - that would be if you want the user to be put directly on the real category page, URL and all.

Answer 2

I'm not sure what you mean by having your home page as a category, you mean that in your home page posts that will be displayed will be only from a certain category ?