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1. eatanicecream
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Hi everyone

   I'd like to set up a home page in such a way that it shows the main content of the page along with the excerpt of the two last blog posts from the blog page.

   I've used <?php the_content('Read the rest of this entry &raquo;'); ?> to show the main content of the 'home' page and this works.

   But how do I pull in the two latest blog posts? I tried putting in the loop, but that showed the main home page content (so that I had it twice). I also tried replacing <?php if (have_posts()) : ?> with <?php rewind_posts(); ?> as described in the multiple loops section of the Codex. This did nothing.

   Is multiple loops the way to go? If so, what am I doing wrong?

2. esmi
   Theme Diva & Forum Moderator
   Posted 2 years ago #

   You have to set up a 2nd query & Loop for your posts using query_posts or get_posts.

3. eatanicecream
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Hmm...can't get it to work. Do you have an example?

4. MichaelH
   Volunteer
   Posted 2 years ago #

   <?php
   $args=array(
     'post_type' => 'post',
     'post_status' => 'publish',
     'posts_per_page' => 2,
     'caller_get_posts'=> 1
   );
   $my_query = null;
   $my_query = new WP_Query($args);
   if( $my_query->have_posts() ) {
     while ($my_query->have_posts()) : $my_query->the_post(); ?>
       <p><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title_attribute(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></p>
       <?php
       //  the_content();
       //  the_excerpt();
     endwhile;
   }
   wp_reset_query();  // Restore global post data stomped by the_post().
   ?>

5. eatanicecream
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Figured it out. I used:

   <?php query_posts($query_string . '&cat='); ?>
   <?php while (have_posts()): the_post(); ?>
   
   <h3><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>" title="Read full post"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h3>
   	<?php the_excerpt(); ?>
   	<?php endwhile; ?>

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