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1. leanda
   Member
   Posted 5 years ago #

   Hi

   I'm pulling my hair out with this and would be very grateful for help.

   I've got a static home page and the main blog in a separate directory. I'm using the following code to pull excerpts from posts onto the static home page and I'd like to add a link underneath each excerpt which says something like 'Read More'.

   I'm a total noob, I've looked at the_excerpt_reloaded plugin and can't get it to work on the static home page. And I've tried changing post_excerpt to post_content and then using the 'more' tag and that won't work either.

   Can anyone help? Would be very, very grateful.

   <?php
   $how_many=6;
   require_once("wordpress/wp-config.php");
   $news=$wpdb->get_results("SELECT ID, post_title, post_excerpt FROM $wpdb->posts
   WHERE post_type='post' ORDER BY ID DESC LIMIT $how_many");
   foreach($news as $np){
   echo '
   <h3>ID).'">'.$np->post_title.'</h3>
   <p>'.$np->post_excerpt.'</p>';
   }
   ?>

2. Kafkaesqui
   Moderator
   Posted 5 years ago #

   With the 'more' quicktag in posts:

   <?php
$how_many = 6;
require_once("wordpress/wp-config.php");
$news = $wpdb->get_results("SELECT ID, post_title, post_content FROM $wpdb->posts WHERE post_type='post' ORDER BY ID DESC LIMIT $how_many");
foreach($news as $np){
$post_content = split('<!--more-->', $np->post_content);
echo '<h3><a href="'.get_permalink($np->ID).'">'.$np->post_title.'</h3><p>'.$post_content[0].'</p>';
}
?>

   Or, more the WP-Way:

   <?php
$how_many = 6;
require_once("wordpress/wp-blog-header.php");
query_posts("showposts=$how_many");
while( have_posts() ) : the_post();
?>
<h3><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h3>
<?php the_content(); ?>
<?php endwhile; ?>

3. leanda
   Member
   Posted 5 years ago #

   Thanks very much.

   I'll try both these methods out today.

   Thanks

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