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1. RyanJenkins
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   I've got a mini-loop on my homepage.

   It looks like this:

   <?php
   // Include WordPress
   define('WP_USE_THEMES', false);
   require('./blog/wp-blog-header.php');
   query_posts('showposts=2');
   ?>
   
   [Plenty of homepage content]
   
   <?php while(have_posts()): the_post(); ?>
   <br /><span class="blogtitle"><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></span>
   <span class="blogdate"><?php the_time('F jS, Y') ?></span>
   <?php the_excerpt(); ?>
   <hr noshade style="margin-top:14px;margin-bottom:-4px;padding:0px;">
   <?php endwhile; ?>

   The Loop goes through two posts and after each one places a horizontal rule, just like it's told to. This ends up looking silly, though, because after my second post, there is a horizontal rule, and then the very bottom of the website, nothing after it. I'd like to do away with this.

   So, what I could do is something like this:

   <?php while(have_posts()): the_post(); ?>
   <br /><span class="blogtitle"><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></span>
   <span class="blogdate"><?php the_time('F jS, Y') ?></span>
   <?php the_excerpt(); ?>
   <hr noshade style="margin-top:14px;margin-bottom:-4px;padding:0px;">
   
   [manually increment the Loop to the next post, then paste the same code to display and format the post]
   
   <br /><span class="blogtitle"><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></span>
   <span class="blogdate"><?php the_time('F jS, Y') ?></span>
   <?php the_excerpt(); ?>
   <?php endwhile; ?>

   Is there a function for this, to skip, continue, increment, or iterate the Loop? Thanks.

2. stvwlf
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   Here is code for how to do what you want

   In this example, output an <hr> after all posts except the last one
   

   <?php
   if( ($wp_query->current_post + 1) < ($wp_query->post_count) ) {
     echo("<hr />");
   }  ?>

   (post_count starts at 1 and current_post starts at 0. )

3. RyanJenkins
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   Fantastic, perfect, thanks a million.

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