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1. sventhebaker
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #
   

   I am looking to feature the most recent post, using a thumbnail etc. Is there a way to have a list right under the most recent post that just pulls 3 other posts that are older than the most recent?
   Example: Category X has posts from Aug 1, Aug, 2, Aug 3, Aug 4.
   I want to feature Aug 4 with thumb, but list Aug 3,2,1 below it.

   Thanks!

   Stephen

   http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/display-posts-shortcode/

2. Bill Erickson
   Member
   Plugin Author
   Posted 1 year ago #
   

   This is a bit outside the scope of this plugin. For your particular instance I'd recommend creating a page template that altered what was displayed based on the post count.

   Right before the loop you would put $counter = 1;

   Then, inside the loop do something like:

   if ( 1 == $counter ) {
   [your markup for your first featured post]
   } else {
   [your markup for all other posts]
   }
   $counter++;

3. Bill Erickson
   Member
   Plugin Author
   Posted 1 year ago #
   

   Actually, now that I've added a filter to the shortcode you can do this. It will only work if the shortcode is used only once on the page. Place this in your functions.php file:

   /**
    * Exclude the first post
    * @author Bill Erickson
    * @link http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/display-posts-shortcode/
    * @link http://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-display-posts-shortcode-can-i-pull-list-of-posts-from-category-excluding-most-recent-post
    *
    * @param $output string, original markup for an individual post
    * @return false or $output
    *
    */
   
   add_filter( 'display_posts_shortcode_output', 'be_exclude_first_post' );
   function be_exclude_first_post( $output ) {
   	global $exclude_first_post;
   	if ( !isset( $exclude_first_post ) ) {
   		$exclude_first_post = true;
   		return false;
   	} else {
   		return $output;
   	}
   }

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