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1. vikkineal
   Member
   Posted 3 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 :)

2. Danny de Haan
   Member
   Posted 3 months ago #

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

3. vikkineal
   Member
   Posted 3 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); ?>

4. esmi
   Theme Diva & Forum Moderator
   Posted 3 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

5. vikkineal
   Member
   Posted 3 months ago #

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

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

6. vikkineal
   Member
   Posted 3 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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