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1. bobdobbs
   Member
   Posted 5 months ago #

   I've got a loop that grabs posts of a certain category.

   Within the loop, I'd like to have something like this:

   // if this post is amongst the latest four, then do this...

   How can I do this?

2. alchymyth
   The Sweeper
   Posted 5 months ago #

   try:

   if( $wp_query->current_post <=3 && !is_paged() ) :
   //do something//
   endif;

3. bobdobbs
   Member
   Posted 5 months ago #

   Hi alchymyth.

   Whatever that does, it must be close.
   This is how I'm expressing the condtion:

   if ( $wp_query->current_post <=3 && !is_paged())  {
   	  echo "<li class=\"sister-post newpost \">"  ;
   	}else{
   	  echo "<li class=\"sister-post\">"  ;

   The results get paged across two pages. 8 results show on the first page. Using the code you've given me, every one of the first 8 results is given the class 'newpost'.

   Maybe I'm doing something wrong, but the condition proves true for every one of the first 8 results.

   Could you break it down a little for me?
   What is this idiom?

   <=3

4. alchymyth
   The Sweeper
   Posted 5 months ago #

   the code is based on a 'normal' query and loop; your code might be different, in which case you might need to use a counter variable;

   example structure:
   

   $counter = 0; //initialize counter
   /*query and start of loop*/
   $counter++;
   if ( $counter <=4 && !is_paged())  {
   	  echo "<li class=\"sister-post newpost \">"  ;
   	}else{
   	  echo "<li class=\"sister-post\">"  ;
   }
   /*end of loop*/

   can you paste the full code of your template into a http://pastebin.com/ and post the link to it here?

5. bobdobbs
   Member
   Posted 5 months ago #

   This is the current state of the code:
   http://pastebin.com/rzUA1bpc

   I'm afraid it's a little complicated. But in essence it does this: it grabs all posts of a certain category. If the post has an attachment, it publishes the post.

   I'm afraid a counter won't help.
   Using a counter, I can do something special to x number of post that I publish. But, I specifically want to do something special with the newest 4 posts, no matter what criteria I use to sort them by.

   So, I might want to publish posts sorted, say, author. But I'd still like to apply a particular css class to whichever posts, regardless of authorship, that where published most recently.

6. alchymyth
   The Sweeper
   Posted 5 months ago #

   possibly:

   at the start of your code, add:
   

   <?php $last_four = get_posts('numberposts=4');
   $last_four_ids = array();
   foreach($last_four as $last) {
   $last_four_ids[] = $last->ID;
   } ?>

   and as conditional, try:

   if( in_array($post->ID, $last_four_ids) )  {

7. bobdobbs
   Member
   Posted 5 months ago #

   Yes!
   That does it.

   Thanks very much.

   To add a complication, the blog has a number of categories, and I only want the condition to return true if the post being presented is of a certain category.

   I think I've nailed this by adding a parameter to the getposts call, thus:

   $last_four = get_posts('numberposts=4', 'category=4')

   My initial tests seem to show this as succesful.

   Again, thanks for helping me get this result. Much appreciated :)

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