Politics Plus: Adding Additional Home Page sections

Adding additional home page sections to Politics Plus can be accomplished using the homepage hook.

First step will be to install and activate a child theme. This will allow for direct customizations to be made to theme files without those customizations getting overwritten during a theme update. We have prepared a child theme for both the Politics and Politics Plus themes.

Next, in the functions.php file of the child theme, add the following action:

Your new section will be available for positioning within the customizer settings:

Appearance > Customize > Home > Section Positions

You can also control the number of featured posts that appear by using the filter ‘secondary_featured_posts_per_page’: ( Politics Plus only )

function custom_num_secondary_posts_on_homepage() { 	return 6; } add_filter('secondary_featured_posts_per_page', 'custom_num_secondary_posts_on_homepage');