http://wordpress.org/support/ WordPress › Support Topic: The Loop: posting only the most recent post to a static homepage en Thu, 26 Nov 2009 07:26:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/support/topic/285961#post-1123888 Thu, 02 Jul 2009 16:25:24 +0000 particlepat 1123888@http://wordpress.org/support/ <p>Thank you very much, I knew it was something incredibly easy like that. You're the man. </p> http://wordpress.org/support/topic/285961#post-1123883 Thu, 02 Jul 2009 16:11:16 +0000 Otto42 1123883@http://wordpress.org/support/ <p>Okay. Add <code>query_posts(&#39;showposts=1&#39;);</code> right before that Loop. </p> http://wordpress.org/support/topic/285961#post-1123852 Thu, 02 Jul 2009 15:50:03 +0000 particlepat 1123852@http://wordpress.org/support/ <pre><code>&lt;?php if (have_posts()) : ?&gt; &lt;?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?&gt; &lt;div class=&quot;post&quot;&gt; &lt;h1 class=&quot;toptitle&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;&lt;?php the_permalink() ?&gt;&quot;&gt;&lt;?php the_title(); ?&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h1&gt; &lt;p class=&quot;topMeta&quot;&gt;by &lt;?php the_author_firstname(); ?&gt; &lt;?php the_author_lastname(); ?&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;div class=&quot;entry&quot;&gt; &lt;?php the_excerpt(); ?&gt; &lt;/div&gt; &lt;/div&gt; &lt;!-- Closes post --&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;?php endwhile; ?&gt; &lt;?php endif; ?&gt;</code></pre> http://wordpress.org/support/topic/285961#post-1123789 Thu, 02 Jul 2009 15:01:29 +0000 Otto42 1123789@http://wordpress.org/support/ <p>What's the code for your loop right now? Should be a simple matter of adding a query_posts call to adjust the parameters of the main query. </p> http://wordpress.org/support/topic/285961#post-1123783 Thu, 02 Jul 2009 14:56:11 +0000 particlepat 1123783@http://wordpress.org/support/ <p>I'm having some issues writing the loop for my wordpress <a href="http://www.bcsprosoft.com/blog">site</a>. There will be a static homepage that will contain the header, footer, top navigation bar, a containing holding some navigation buttons that will only be visible on the home page, and then a smaller container to the right of that one that will hold a small snippet/excerpt of my most recent blog post. </p> <p>I am starting to get really frustrated when I try to write the loop for the single blog post. I want to show the blog title that links to the post, the authors name, the excerpt, a link that says "Read the rest of this entry", the number of comments, and a link to leave a comment. I do not want a list of comments to appear on the homepage though. </p> <p>I have been able to get the title, the authors name and an excerpt of the blog, but it shows an excerpt for all of my entries, and like I said, I only want one. Can someone please give me some pointers or help me write the code for my loop?</p> <p>*I will have a separate page designated to showing all blog posts, so I'm assuming that will be a completely different loop. I'm only focused on the first loop as of now. </p>