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Select ALL Categories on Homepage Widget

On the main page of the Church template, or many of the other templates, you have featured content blocks. Typically you go into the blog theme options and then select which block shows which category.

What I'd like is for one of these featured content blocks to show ALL categories. So that way if I have more categories than blocks, my content still shows up on the front page.

So looking at the church theme in particular, the Homepage Featured Bottom block allows you to select categories but what I'd like to see is the option to select all categories. One way to work around this would be to create a category called 'All Categories" then every blog is also placed into this one category and selecting it, but there's got to be a better way to do this.

If anyone knows of a better way to accomplish this, please do respond.

Thanks!

try this [back up files first]

change this

Code:

                <?php $recent = new WP_Query("cat=".get_theme_mod('featured_top_left')."&showposts=".get_theme_mod('featured_top_left_num')); while($recent->have_posts()) : $recent->the_post();?>

to this

Code:

<?php $recent = new WP_Query("showposts=3"); while($recent->have_posts()) : $recent->the_post();?>

Debra, I haven't done this yet but I'm going to give it a shot and post my results. Thank you so kindly for responding.

Thank you very much Debra. Worked wonderfully!