Wordpress is_home = true

I am using thumbnail excerpts for my wordpress blog. This has to the option to set thumbnails on archives, homepage and search.

I built an extra template page to only show news as my ma开发者_如何学Goin homepage shows the latest events.

Is there any way you can set another variable that it makes your template page look as is_home(), this way it'll give me the thumbnails as well.

Thanks

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You could try this in your template.

global $wp_query;
$wp_query->is_home = true;