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MullacSennical
(@mullacsennical)

13 years, 2 months ago

I currently have a slider which shows six recent posts with a row of thumbnails (using a short code) underneath and they show the same six recent posts as thumbnails. What I would like to do is have the slider show recent posts 1-6 and the thumbnails show recent posts 6-12 so when new posts are added this will change automatically, is there a way of doing this?

Thanks for any help, sorry for the vague question I am quite new to PHP/WordPress!

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wprock
(@wprock)

13 years, 2 months ago

use ‘offset’ parameter in 2nd query_posts() function like this

query_posts(‘offset=6’);

esmi
(@esmi)

13 years, 2 months ago

Is this slider part of your theme or via a plugin?

Rajesh Soni
(@rajeshsoni)

13 years, 2 months ago

What slider are you using?
Does it have an option to exclude certain posts?

Thread Starter MullacSennical
(@mullacsennical)

13 years, 2 months ago

It’s an orbit slider using Foundation, should have made that clear, sorry!

Rajesh Soni
(@rajeshsoni)

13 years, 2 months ago

Ok how do you specify the options for the slider? (post type to use, number of posts, etc. etc)?

esmi
(@esmi)

13 years, 2 months ago

Is it this: http://320press.com/wp-foundation/

Thread Starter MullacSennical
(@mullacsennical)

13 years, 2 months ago

It’s not so much the slider I need to change as that already shows the six newest posts, it’s the thumbnails underneath that I want to change to be 6-12 🙂

Rajesh Soni
(@rajeshsoni)

13 years, 2 months ago

You can try using @wprock’s solution above.

Thread Starter MullacSennical
(@mullacsennical)

13 years, 2 months ago

I shall give it a try!

And yeah it’s the 320 press version of Foundation : )

Thread Starter MullacSennical
(@mullacsennical)

13 years, 2 months ago

@wprock

How would I go about inserting this? Would I need to create a new function?

The code for the thumbnails is currently a short code, could I just add it to that? : )

Rajesh Soni
(@rajeshsoni)

13 years, 2 months ago

Check the documentation of the short code. What options does it support etc.

wprock
(@wprock)

13 years, 2 months ago

upload the shortcode’s code on pastebin.com and share the link us? We can see the code from there. We will check, modify the code and send you the new link. You will copy code and paste in your file. That’s it

Thread Starter MullacSennical
(@mullacsennical)

13 years, 2 months ago

I appreciate the help.

Here’s the short code: http://pastebin.com/WSY84gyj

I think that’s all of it!

Rajesh Soni
(@rajeshsoni)

13 years, 2 months ago

Here’s the updated code: http://pastebin.com/Hs4QrUBf

Thread Starter MullacSennical
(@mullacsennical)

13 years, 2 months ago

Thanks a lot for your help! That’s exactly what I needed.