category page as a front page?

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  polaarocks · Member · Oct 25, 2017 at 9:59 pm

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  Is this possible and what are the alternatives?

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  kristinaismyname · Member · Oct 25, 2017 at 10:42 pm

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  There is no shortcode specifically for listing categories on a page, but you can use one to display posts within a specific category (see here: https://en.support.wordpress.com/display-posts-shortcode/)

  You could also create a page and within the page, list and link to the categories that you have created. You would then designate this page as the front page by going to Customize >Front Page Options and choosing static front page. Then select the page you created as the home page.

  The other option is to create a menu of categories which will allow users to browse specific categories (see here: https://en.support.wordpress.com/category-pages/).

  Hope this helps!

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  kokkieh · Staff · Oct 26, 2017 at 6:43 am

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  Hi there,

  It is not possible to set a category page as a front page, no.

  What you can do is to set a static front page, as @kristinaismyname explained, and use the display posts shortcode to show only posts from that category on that front page.

  Note that the shortcode can only display up to a maximum of 100 posts, it is cached which means it might take up to an hour to update after you publish a new post, and it uses its own formatting, so it won’t display the posts in the grid layout used by your theme.