Is there any way to make WordPress frontpage show posts from some categories? Yes, there is a it is not complicated if you follow our steps.
To make front page display only selected posts, those posts which you add to specific category (for example “Frontpage” category), you need to edit your theme index file.
1. Create new category, name it “Frontpage”
2. When created, click Edit.
3. Locate the category ID as shown in the picture
4. Navigate to Appearance, then Editor
5. Click Main Index Template
6. Find this line of code
<!--?php if (have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?-->
And change to
<!--?php query_posts('cat=4930'); ?-->
<!--?php if (have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?-->
7. You added line query_posts(‘cat=4930‘); where 4930 is the category ID.
8. Done
