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1. shakingpaper
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   Hi,

   I am creating a custom template. The front page has a 'recent news' section that requires the recent posts to be floated and therefore I need to be able to add a custom class to each of them (I can't use their id's as they will change as the posts get updated).

   My current loop code is below with the class news_post. I think the solution would be adding a duplicate loop that will show the next most recent story (everything else I have tried has resulted in a duplicate post).

   <!-- begin news loop -->
   		<h1>Latest News</h1>
   		<?php query_posts('cat=3&showposts=2'); ?>
   		<?php while (have_posts()) : the_post();
   		if( $post->ID == $do_not_duplicate ) continue; ?>
   
   		<div class="news_post" id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>">
   		<h2><?php if (strlen($post->post_title) > 20) { echo substr(the_title($before = '', $after = '', FALSE), 0, 20) . '...';} else {the_title();} ?></h2>
   		<?php global $more; $more = 0; the_excerpt('Read more...'); ?>
   		</div>
   		<?php endwhile; ?>
   		<!-- end news loop -->

   Any help would be great

2. Chris_K
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   How about one "normal" loop with a counter in it and some if...then logic depending on how big the counter is?

   Like, if the counter is < 3 use different classes.

3. shakingpaper
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   I wouldn't have a clue where to start with that sort of stuff - could you be a bit more specific?

   Thanks for the reply!

4. t31os
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   If you want to make a counter, just doing something like this...

   $myvariable = 0;

   Then inside the loop do...

   $myvariable++;

   Then append whatever you want to add to with the variable...

   Example...

   <div class="myclass_'.$myvariable.'">example</div>

   Each result from the loop would then get...

   class="myclass_1" , class="myclass_2" ... and so on...

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