Creating a static front page based on multiple posts

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  michaeldunlapresidential · Member · Nov 17, 2016 at 8:27 pm

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  Using the cubic theme. I’d like my home page to be categories of work (such as residential, works in progress, etc.) with a picture of an example building. Within each category, I’d like to put posts with examples of each work, within each post more pictures of each individual building. So a hierarchy: home page=residential category, works in progress category, etc. Within residential category, each building as a separate post, within each post, multiple pictures of each building with a description. Thank you!

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  musicdoc1 · Member · Nov 18, 2016 at 12:13 am

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  Hi,

  I’d like my home page to be categories of work (such as residential, works in progress, etc.) with a picture of an example building. Within each category, I’d like to put posts with examples of each work, within each post more pictures of each individual building.

  Here’s your “Works in Progress” category page: https://michaeldunlapresidential.wordpress.com/category/works-in-progress/. I don’t think it’s possible to create a standard WordPress.com auto-generated category page with multiple categories. An alternative would be to create a customized “category page” from a static page, in which you include display posts shortcode, customized to display posts only assigned to certain categories. However, such a page wouldn’t have the tiled pattern of the Cubic posts page and archives pages.

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  supernovia · Staff · Nov 19, 2016 at 9:31 pm

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  Hi folks, @musicdoc1 is correct: there’s no default way to show a list of categories within Cubic like this. Also, Cubic is not meant for static pages: you’ll notice every post has a date associated with it, and that might not be ideal in your circumstances.

  You could try some HTML and CSS if you wanted, but since this appears to be more of a portfolio site, you might like a theme with a grid template instead. Pages can have that kind of hierarchy you’re referring to.

  Here are a few grid pages in different themes:
  https://motifdemo.wordpress.com/page-templates/grid-page/
  https://gorandemo.wordpress.com/page-templates/grid-page/
  https://edindemo.wordpress.com/page-templates/grid-page/
  https://selademo.wordpress.com/page-templates/grid-page/
  https://sequentialdemo.wordpress.com/page-templates/grid-page/ (these images are round; the template doesn’t round them for you)