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1. yuletide
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   (This may belong in "advanced" but as of 5 minutes ago only moderators could start new threads there...)

   Hi, so I can't get post teasers to display on my front page unless I actually put "the_excerpt" in my code (which I don't want to do).

   The homepage is a normal "page" with its own content (mission statement, etc) but then I added in some extra PHP to the template to pull the most recent post. Unfortunately, that post always shows up in its entirety... (
   http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/the_content)

   Here's the code:
   

   <?php $latestPost = new WP_Query();
   $latestPost->query('showposts=1');
   while ($latestPost->have_posts()) : $latestPost->the_post(); ?>
   <div id="post"> etc...
   <?php the_content( __( 'Read More <span class="meta-nav">&raquo;</span>', 'sandbox' ) ) ?>

2. kennethwatt
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   Are you wanting help with:

   I'm worried that somehow wordpress thinks its a single-post page due to the way I constructed my queries?

   or

   Hi, so I can't get excerpts to display on front page unless I actually put "the_excerpt" in my code (which I don't want to do).

3. yuletide
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   Both, since the first is my only possible explanation for the second...
   http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/the_content

   I'm trying to display a teaser even though its a template and only displaying one post...

   EDIT: I've updated the original post to make it a bit clearer, sorry if it was confusing!

4. yuletide
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   Argh. Tried using the post-teaser plugin: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/post-teaser/ but it also thinks the front page is a single post page and never displays the teaser. I tried forcing $single = false in my template but that just crashes EVERYTHING:
   

   Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 33554432 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 14595 bytes) in /digex/wordpress-content/plugins/post-teaser/post-teaser.php on line 415

   Tried disabling the plugin, but leaving $single=false, and even that doesn't work! Tried changing the query to showposts=3...

   Ahhhh!

5. blablu
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Hey. I had the same problem and solved it like this:
   

   // Get the Posts
   query_posts('showposts=5');
   // Activate Read more...
   global $more;    // Declare global $more (before the loop).
   $more = 0;
   // The Loop
   <?php thematic_navigation_above(); 	?>
   <?php thematic_above_indexloop() ?>
   <?php thematic_indexloop() ?>
   <?php thematic_below_indexloop() ?>
   <?php thematic_navigation_below(); ?>

   For more information look at http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/the_content

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