default WordPress-Theme Twenty Twentry Four (TT4) - customizing to add and show "stories"?

[saint_malo]

good day dear friends,

currnetly planing a new project - - therefore i want to use the default TT4 Theme

can we add in ( or below ) the so called "hero-section" a area where we can add postings - e.g. on a daily base!? Is this possible?
see the formal image - in a ascii-drawing;

+-------------------------------------------------+
| HEADER (TT4 Standard)                           |
| Menü: News | Areas | Technologies               |
+-------------------------------------------------+
| 🟥 HERO = NEWS                                  |
| ------------------------------------------------|
| Title: "the actual news & Updates"              |
|                                                 |
| • News 1 (newest)                               |
| • News 2                                        |
| • News 3                                        |
|                                                 |
| [see all news →]                                |
+-------------------------------------------------+
| 🟨 CONTEXT (optional, but strong)               |
| ------------------------------------------------|
| "What is a so called Network?"                  |
| 2–3 Sätze + Link                                |
+-------------------------------------------------+
| 🟦 ENTRY POINTS (3 cards)                       |
| ------------------------------------------------|
| [News]  [Areas]   [Technologies]                |
|                                                 |
| → introduction into the systems and..           |
+-------------------------------------------------+
| FOOTER                                          |
+-------------------------------------------------+

well - would you do this in the so called "content-area"? And yes: to be much more concrete - i think we can use this model - ,,, : the question is: how to arrange the "news" - area!?

and below - in a nother view - cf. https://2024.wordpress.net/index.php/style-variations/ or here https://de.wordpress.org/themes/twentytwentyfour/




the question is - can we use the default tt4 theme to add this setup. See the news-content above.


what do you guess - look forward to hear from you

 

[Harry P]

TT4 is a block theme, so none of this needs PHP or a child theme. Open the Site Editor, go to the template your front page actually uses, and drop a Query Loop block right under the hero pattern. Set it to posts, three per page, newest first. The three cards further down can be a second Query Loop if they point at real posts, or just a Row of columns if they are static entry points.

One thing that catches people out here: which template you edit depends on Settings then Reading. If a static page is selected you are editing Front Page or the page template, if it is set to latest posts you are editing Home. Edit the wrong one and nothing you change ever shows up. Is the hero meant to stay fixed, or should the newest post fill it automatically?