Title: Custom most recent without loop
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Custom most recent without loop

 *  [sf23103](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sf23103/)
 * (@sf23103)
 * [14 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-most-recent-without-loop/)
 * I am building a custom wordpress theme, and am wondering if this is possible:
 * The client wants the 6 most recent articles (Title, date, author, and excerpt(
   certain number of characters). The issue is, each of the 6 most recent articles
   will be in different DIV’s and there is no way for me to set it up as a loop 
   in that design.
 * Has anyone produced any code that will allow me to put the most recent article
   in one box, the second in another, third, and so on without doing one loop? I
   would assume it would be possible to print “Most Recent Article 1” here, “Second
   Most Recent Article” there, etc.
 * Ideas?

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 *  [Michael](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alchymyth/)
 * (@alchymyth)
 * [14 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-most-recent-without-loop/#post-2740886)
 * > each of the 6 most recent articles will be in different DIV’s and there is 
   > no way for me to set it up as a loop in that design.
 * generally, this should be no problem.
 * what do you have so far as code for the recent articles?
 * (please use the pastebin for the code – see [http://codex.wordpress.org/Forum_Welcome#Posting_Code](http://codex.wordpress.org/Forum_Welcome#Posting_Code))
 *  [Digital Raindrops](https://wordpress.org/support/users/adeptris/)
 * (@adeptris)
 * [14 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-most-recent-without-loop/#post-2740895)
 * Code snippet for **content.php** in a **twenty eleven child theme**!
 *     ```
       <?php
       	global $wp_query;
       	$divisor = 6;
       	$counter = ($wp_query->current_post + 1) % $divisor;
       	$class = $counter ? 'recent-' .$counter : 'recent-' .$divisor;
       ?>
   
          <article id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>" <?php post_class( $class ); ?>>
       ```
   
 * Based on your posts per page `$wp_query->current_post` will start at zero, so
   ten posts returns 0 – 9
 * Set the `$divisor` to the number of styles, you want 6 others might want two 
   for columns.
 * `% $divisor;` will return 0 if the counter is divisable.
    So we get 1, 2, 3, 
   4, 5, 0, 1, 2, 3, 4
 *     ```
       $class = $counter ? 'recent-' .$counter : 'recent-' .$divisor;
       ```
   
 * This will concatenate `'recent-'` and `$counter` if `$counter != 0`, if `$counter
   == 0` it will concatenate `'recent-'` and `$divisor`
 * recent-1, recent-2, recent-3, recent-4, recent-5 and recent-6
 * Last we set our class with the post class `post_class( $class );`
    WordPress 
   will append our class to the post classes!
 *     ```
       <article id="post-1" class="post-1 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-uncategorized recent-1">
       ```
   
 * Then in the style.css
 *     ```
       .recent-1 {
   
       }
   
       .recent-2 {
       }
       ```
   
 * Pretty Neat!
 * HTH
 * david
 *  Thread Starter [sf23103](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sf23103/)
 * (@sf23103)
 * [14 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-most-recent-without-loop/#post-2740900)
 * Way cool! Thanks so much. I’m definitely pretty new to WordPress (and PHP in 
   general) so this might take me some time, that’s a huge help. I’ll let you know
   how it turns out.
 * Thanks for your time!!
 * Alex

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