Show post except's when out of the loop

  • Resolved vikkineal

    (@vikkineal)


    12 years, 2 months ago

    Hi

    I want to display a panel of 3 recent posts, their image and an excerpt of the post on my homepage. The code I have is out of the loop and while it works to some extent (does pull an excerpt for one of the posts) – it actually repeats the same excerpt for all 3.

    <ul>
 <?php
$IDOutsideLoop = $post->ID;
global $post;
$myposts = get_posts('showposts=3');
foreach($myposts as $post) :
?>
    <li>
    <?php echo get_the_post_thumbnail($page->ID, 'thumbnail'); ?>
    <a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>">
      <?php the_title(); ?>
      </a>
             <?php echo substr(get_the_excerpt(), 0,30); ?>

      </li>
    <?php endforeach; ?>
  </ul>

    Any ideas what I’m doing wrong?

    Thanks 🙂

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  • Danny de Haan

    (@dannydehaan)

    12 years, 2 months ago

    Instead of using get_the_excerpt(), you can try to use $post->post_excerpt. Also for your thumbnail, use $post->ID.

    Thread Starter vikkineal

    (@vikkineal)

    12 years, 2 months ago

    Hi – thanks for the advice. I’m still getting my head around everything so just want to check that you mean like I’ve written below?

    <li>
    <?php echo get_the_post_thumbnail($post->ID, 'thumbnail'); ?>
    <a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>">
      <?php the_title(); ?>
      </a>
             <?php echo substr($post->post_excerpt); ?>

      </li>

    I’m assuming that will default to the 55 character excerpt? To increase to 200 do i just write…?

    <?php echo substr($post->post_excerpt, 0,200); ?>

    esmi

    (@esmi)

    12 years, 2 months ago

    $myposts = get_posts('posts_per_page=3');
setup_postdata($post);

    See http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/get_posts#Access_all_post_data

    Thread Starter vikkineal

    (@vikkineal)

    12 years, 2 months ago

    Hi Esmi, is your suggestion instead of this snippet in my code?

    $myposts = get_posts('showposts=3');
foreach($myposts as $post) :
    Thread Starter vikkineal

    (@vikkineal)

    12 years, 2 months ago

    Thank you for all your help, here is the final code;

    <div id="latestNewsPanel">
  <h3><a href="#">Latest news</a></h3>
  <ul>
    <?php
$args = array( 'numberposts' => 3 );
$lastposts = get_posts( $args );
foreach($lastposts as $post) : setup_postdata($post); ?>
    <li><?php the_title(); ?>
    <a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><?php echo get_the_post_thumbnail($post->ID, 'thumbnail'); ?></a>
      <p><?php echo substr($post->post_excerpt, 0,200); ?><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>">Read more</a></p>
    </li>
    <?php endforeach; ?>
  </ul>
  <div class="clearBoth"></div>
</div>
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