WordPress.org

1. kespinoza
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   On my home page, I'd like to have my current post be in full then have the remaining posts show excerpts/summary. As of now I only know how to set it showing each post in full or each post as an excerpt.

2. Chris_K
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   That's not too tough with a small modification to The_Loop but the trick is making sure that you don't do it to subsequent pages (like when folks navigate to older posts).

   In your theme's index.php find
   <?php if (have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
   and add this right before that line:
   <?php $postcount = 0; ?>
   and add this right after that line:
   <?php $postcount++;

   Scroll down a bit to where your theme calls the_content() and replace that with something like this (keep in mind you might want to save your theme's original the_content() line and replace it below):

   <?php if ($postcount == 1 && !is_paged()) : ?>
      <?php the_content(__('Read more'));?><div style="clear:both;"></div>
   <?php else : ?>
      <?php the_excerpt(); ?>
   <?php endif; ?>

   And there you go.

3. kespinoza
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Thanks Chris, that totally worked. I just needed to add the closing tag for the code postcount++

   <?php $postcount++; ?>

Topic Closed

This topic has been closed to new replies.