This can normally be done using widgets. Look for “recent posts with excerpts” – you might have to do some code modification to get it to do exactly what you want it to do, but that should get you started.
Thread Starter
xMarra
(@xmarra)
I don’t understand how that will fix my problem. That is a sidebar widget, how do I use it in the loop?
I would do this with 2 loops.
The first would query just 1 post and show it with appropriate CSS styles.
<?php query_posts('showposts=1'); ?>
<?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
your stuff here
<?php endwhile; ?><?php endwhile; endif; ?>
The second would skip the first post
<?php query_posts('posts_per_page=4&offset=1'); ?>
<?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
your stuff here
<?php endwhile; ?><?php endwhile; endif; ?>
Thread Starter
xMarra
(@xmarra)
Thanks for helping.
But when I try your code the page just goes blank. Here is my code:
<div id="articleContainer">
<?php query_posts('showposts=1'); ?>
<?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
<article id="bigPost" <?php post_class() ?> id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>">
<!-- check if the post has a Post Thumbnail assigned to it. -->
<a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>"> <?php if ( has_post_thumbnail() ) { the_post_thumbnail('bigThumb'); } ?></a>
<div class="postItems">
<h2 class="bigTitle"><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h2>
<div class="entry">
<?php the_content(); ?>
</div>
<div class="postMetaData">
<span id="meta" class="time"> <?php the_time('d/m/Y g:ia') ?></span>
<span id="meta" class="comments"><?php comments_number( 'Ingen kommentarer', 'Én kommentar', '% kommentarer' ); ?>.</span>
<span id="meta" class="category">Kategori: <?php the_category(', ') ?></span>
</div>
</div>
</article> <!-- end bigPost -->
<?php endwhile; ?><?php endwhile; endif; ?>
</div> <!-- end articleContainer -->
