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1. adamrice
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   I'm polishing up a new theme that shows a single post in full, followed by five excerpts. My code goes something like this
   

   query_posts (posts_per_page = 1)
   if have_posts
   while have_posts the_post
   -- do single-post stuff -
   
   global $post
   $myposts = get_posts('numberposts=5&offset=1')
   foreach($myposts as $post) :
   
   -- do recent-excerpt stuff
   endforeach
   endwhile
   
   else
   -- 404 stuff
   endif

   So here's the weird part: if I've explicitly written excerpt text for the excerpted entries, they appear correctly. If I do not, then I get clipped text from the most recent entry (that is, the one being shown in full).

   There may be a better way to organize all this, and I'd appreciate any guidance on restructuring the whole latest-post/excerpted-post stuff.

2. davedotcom
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   I would recommend organizing it this way:

   <?php
   $posts = get_posts("numberposts=1");
   foreach($posts as $post) : setup_postdata($post);
   ?>
   
   FORMAT SINGLE POST IN FULL
   (Use the_title(), the_content(), etc. since we used setup_postdata().)
   
   <?php
   endforeach;
   ?>
   
   <?php
   $posts = get_posts("numberposts=5&offset=1");
   foreach($posts as $post) : setup_postdata($post);
   ?>
   
   FORMAT OTHER FIVE EXCERPT POSTS
   (Use the_title(), the_excerpt(), etc. since we used setup_postdata().)
   
   <?php
   endforeach;
   ?>

   With my WordPress install (2.1.3) the database doesn't produce any errors if there aren't enough posts to fulfill the get_posts() query. If it requests 5 and there's only 3, then it just shows those three.

   Let me know if this works for you.

3. adamrice
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   That was quick, thank you. Seems to work fine.

   One potential problem is that there's no fallback when there are zero posts. Of course, that's an edge case, and I can live with this.

   fwiw, the blog is http://8stars.org/a

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