Specific display on Homepage

  • Alkorr

    (@alkorr)


    16 years, 1 month ago

    Hi, I searched the forums and the Codex but I could find how to do what I want to do, although I think it is not very complicated but I’m not good with code…

    So here is my problem: I have my homepage on index.php. I use the main loop to display the latest post with content and the following ones with excerpt only.

    <?php $i=1; ?>
<?php while(have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
<?php if ($i == 1) : ?>
<a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Read: <?php the_title(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a><br />
<?php the_content(); ?>

<br />
<br />

<?php else : ?>
<a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Read: <?php the_title(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a><br />
<?php the_excerpt(); ?>

<?php endif; ?>
<?php $i++; ?>
<?php endwhile; ?>

    I works fine but what I want is only show the latest post with content on the homepage, not on the following pages (I use PageNavi Plugin). I tried to place is_home function before and after the main Loop, but nothing works, I got plenty of syntax errors I don’t know why…

    So for now, when I go on page 2 (/page/2/), the first post on the page displays the content and the following ones the excerpt, exactly like on my homepage. And that’s what I want to avoid.

    Any idea? Thanks a lot for your help! 🙂

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  • vtxyzzy

    (@vtxyzzy)

    16 years, 1 month ago

    Try modifying your code like this:

    <?php
$paged = get_query_var('paged');
$paged = ($paged) ? $paged : 1;
$i=1; ?>
<?php while(have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
   <?php if ($i == 1 || $paged > 1) : ?>
      <a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Read: <?php the_title(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a><br />
      <?php the_content(); ?>
    Thread Starter Alkorr

    (@alkorr)

    16 years, 1 month ago

    Hi vtxyzzy, thanks for your help but it doesn’t work, it didn’t change anything… The /page/2/ shows first post on page with the_content like on the homepage 🙁

    But I understand what you intended to do and it sounded great. Any other idea? 😉

    vtxyzzy

    (@vtxyzzy)

    16 years, 1 month ago

    I would do a little debugging by printing out some info to see if $paged is getting set the way I think it should:

    <?php
$paged = get_query_var('paged');
$paged = ($paged) ? $paged : 1;
echo "<p><h2>Paged:$paged</h2></p>";
$i=1; ?>
<?php while(have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
   <?php if ($i == 1 || $paged > 1) : ?>
      <a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Read: <?php the_title(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a><br />
      <?php the_content(); ?>

    See if $paged changes to the correct page number.

    Thread Starter Alkorr

    (@alkorr)

    16 years, 1 month ago

    Ok, I tried that it shows the right page: Paged:1 on homepage and Paged:2 when I’m on /page/2/

    So now I wonder why I can’t make your code work?!

    vtxyzzy

    (@vtxyzzy)

    16 years, 1 month ago

    That is a puzzler. Check your if-test carefully – maybe a misspelled variable. If not that, you might try putting in some parens to force grouping in the if-test, but I don’t see why they should be necessary.

    <?php if (($i == 1) || ($paged > 1)) : ?>

    Thread Starter Alkorr

    (@alkorr)

    16 years, 1 month ago

    It doesn’t change anything… I’m cursed!

    Thank you very much for your help vtxyzzy! 🙂

    vtxyzzy

    (@vtxyzzy)

    16 years, 1 month ago

    OK – try to force all the posts to full content like this:

    <?php if (true || ($i == 1) || ($paged > 1)) : ?>

    If that doesn’t work, then we need to look somewhere other than the if-test for the answer.

    Thread Starter Alkorr

    (@alkorr)

    16 years, 1 month ago

    Hi vtxyzzy! I just tried it and indeed, all posts show now full content on all the pages. So the problem may come from the code, but from where?

    Thanks for you help!

    vtxyzzy

    (@vtxyzzy)

    16 years, 1 month ago

    Since that worked, the problem is in the if-test, not in other code. I still suspect a misspelled variable name. Please copy and paste a few lines around the one containing the if-test so I can take a look.

    Thread Starter Alkorr

    (@alkorr)

    16 years, 1 month ago

    Sure, here is the code on my index.php:

    <?php get_header(); ?>

<?php
$paged = get_query_var('paged');
$paged = ($paged) ? $paged : 1;
echo "<p><h2>Paged:$paged</h2></p>";
$i=1; ?>

<?php while(have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
<?php if (true || ($i == 1) || ($paged > 1)) : ?>

<a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Read: <?php the_title(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a><br />
<?php the_content(); ?>

<br />
<br />

<?php else : ?>
<a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Read: <?php the_title(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a><br />
<?php the_excerpt(); ?>

<?php endif; ?>
<?php $i++; ?>
<?php endwhile; ?>

<br />
<br />

<center><?php if(function_exists('wp_pagenavi')) { wp_pagenavi(); } ?></center>

<?php get_sidebar(); ?>

    I hope it will help!

    vtxyzzy

    (@vtxyzzy)

    16 years, 1 month ago

    Well, it didn’t help!

    Since the code shows the full content when the ‘true’ is present, it should work when the if-test is true.

    Since the display of $paged is showing that $paged is being set greater than 1, that part of the test should be true on pages other than the first.

    Very puzzling, and I am out of ideas! Sorry!

    Thread Starter Alkorr

    (@alkorr)

    16 years, 1 month ago

    This is weird… So when you paste the code I copied just above, it works fine with you? This is very puzzling indeed!!

    Anyway, thank you very much for your help vtxyzzy, I hope I will finally find out what’s wrong… 😉

    vtxyzzy

    (@vtxyzzy)

    16 years, 1 month ago

    I could not actually test the code you pasted. I was just reviewing the results you gave from earlier tests.

    vtxyzzy

    (@vtxyzzy)

    16 years, 1 month ago

    Alright, I did test the code and it works. Really strange! Maybe some other code is using a variable named $paged. Try changing the name to $my_page_num.

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