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1. visiblemedia
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   I've searched the forums and haven't found an easy solution to this problem.

   I want the first post display to be the full post, then all others to be excerpts.

   Is there an easy way to do that?

2. zqw
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Hey folks,

   I have almost the same problem. I have created a page template I want to use as my first page. The page shows a normal WP page and I'd love to list last five posts of my actual blog under the page. I have tried many plug-ins but they all seem to have some problems to function properly in the page template.

   Can anybody help?

3. greenshady
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Visiblemedia, this shouldn't be too hard. Maybe it's something like this:

   This will get your first post:
   

   <?php
   $my_query = new WP_Query('showposts=1');
   while ($my_query->have_posts()) : $my_query->the_post();
   $do_not_duplicate = $post->ID;
   ?>
   <?php the_content(); ?>
   <?php endwhile; ?>

   To get your next posts:
   

   <?php $posts = get_posts('numberposts=4&offset=1');
   foreach ($posts as $post): setup_postdata($post); ?>
   <?php the_excerpt(); ?>
   <?php endforeach; ?>

   Of course, you'll have to format that with XHTML, and add whatever else you want -- post meta, time and date, title, etc.

   Put this code into your home.php or index.php file.

4. greenshady
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Zqw, I think you should just be able to add the code below to make it work.

   <ul>
   <?php $posts = get_posts('numberposts=5');
   foreach ($posts as $post): setup_postdata($post); ?>
   <li>
   <a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>" title="<?php the_title(); ?>">
   <?php the_title(); ?></a>
   </li>
   <?php endforeach; ?>
   </ul>

   That'll give you a list of the last 5 posts.

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