Title: Featured posts? Multiple loops? Last modified: August 19, 2016 --- # Featured posts? Multiple loops? * [olafg1](https://wordpress.org/support/users/olafg1/) * (@olafg1) * [16 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/featured-posts-multiple-loops/) * Hey, * I’m making a blog, I want the most recent post to be featured. I want this to go automaticly, I found something on nettuts, but seems like that doesn’t work on versions later than 2.7 * This is what I want to make: [http://dznr.org/haj7](http://dznr.org/haj7) * Is there a way to do this with code and not plugins? I want it to go automatcily Viewing 14 replies - 1 through 14 (of 14 total) * [@mercime](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mercime/) * (@mercime) * [16 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/featured-posts-multiple-loops/#post-1147147) * That looks almost exactly like Derek Punsalan’s The Unstandard Theme = [http://theunstandard.5thirtyone.com/](http://theunstandard.5thirtyone.com/) Download – [http://5thirtyone.com/the-unstandard](http://5thirtyone.com/the-unstandard) * Thread Starter [olafg1](https://wordpress.org/support/users/olafg1/) * (@olafg1) * [16 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/featured-posts-multiple-loops/#post-1147150) * Thank you very much! I will look into the code:D * Thread Starter [olafg1](https://wordpress.org/support/users/olafg1/) * (@olafg1) * [16 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/featured-posts-multiple-loops/#post-1147151) * The code is way to complicated to bring over to another theme. Is there no simpler way of doing this? * [RGlover](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rglover/) * (@rglover) * [16 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/featured-posts-multiple-loops/#post-1147205) * The code from The Unstandard theme isn’t particularly difficult to port over. It’s actually a pretty clever way of accomplishing what you want to do. * The critically important bit of code that you should be concerning yourself with is this: * ``` $postcount = array(); function is_first_post($id) { global $postcount; # Add a new id if one has not been added already $postcount[$id] = true; # If we're on the first page of posts and the first post if ( is_home() && !is_paged() && count($postcount) == 1 ) return true; return false; } ``` * in functions.php. That is the loop that determines whether or not the post in question is the first one on the page. It is used like this: * ``` ID) ) ? 'main-post-bg' : 'secondary-post-bg left'; ?> ``` * to echo the appropriate class for the post (if the post ID in question is the first post on the page, the post gets a class of main-post-bg. If not, the post gets a class of secondary-post-bg left. He also uses the conditional again along with the get_post_meta() function to grab the appropriately-sized version of the post image. * ``` ID) ) $img_src = get_post_meta($post->ID, 'lead_image', true); else $img_src = get_post_meta($post->ID, 'secondary_image', true); if ( $img_src == '' ) $img_src = '/wp-content/themes/theunstandard/images/theunstandard-blank.png'; ?> ``` * That strikes me as a pretty straightforward method of accomplishing exactly what it is you’re looking to do. All you’d need to do is style the relevant CSS classes, and add a lead_image and secondary_image custom field to each post containing a url for the lead and secondary images. * Cheers. * Thread Starter [olafg1](https://wordpress.org/support/users/olafg1/) * (@olafg1) * [16 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/featured-posts-multiple-loops/#post-1147292) * Thanks, but it seems like this is way over my head…. * I tried altering the code to my own needs, copying it straight over from the theme but I still can’t make it work… * [RGlover](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rglover/) * (@rglover) * [16 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/featured-posts-multiple-loops/#post-1147307) * What’s not working? Are you getting errors? Where did you put the code? How are you styling it? Did you create appropriate custom fields? * This is almost a cut and paste job, but not quite. There are sufficient steps in between to making your theme look the way you want it to. * Thread Starter [olafg1](https://wordpress.org/support/users/olafg1/) * (@olafg1) * [16 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/featured-posts-multiple-loops/#post-1147308) * I tried wihtout styling them first, to see that it would print at all, when I refresh I only get a blank page, and this is a code in index.php * ``` ID) ) ? 'main-post-bg' : 'secondary-post-bg left'; ?> ID) ) $img_src = get_post_meta($post->ID, 'lead_image', true); else $img_src = get_post_meta($post->ID, 'secondary_image', true); if ( $img_src == '' ) $img_src = '/wp-content/themes/casey/images/theunstandard-blank.png'; ?> ID) ) { ?>

``` * [RGlover](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rglover/) * (@rglover) * [16 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/featured-posts-multiple-loops/#post-1147311) * post your index.php file and your functions.php file in the [WordPress Pastebin](http://wordpress.pastebin.ca/) and post the links here. I’ll have a look and see if I can help. * Thread Starter [olafg1](https://wordpress.org/support/users/olafg1/) * (@olafg1) * [16 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/featured-posts-multiple-loops/#post-1147313) * The only thing I need help with is the grid thing, to be able to display it as I showed above: * index.php: * [http://wordpress.pastebin.ca/1500267](http://wordpress.pastebin.ca/1500267) * functions.php [http://wordpress.pastebin.ca/1500268](http://wordpress.pastebin.ca/1500268) * EDIT: Also, what do I need to do to make it only display posts from one category? * [RGlover](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rglover/) * (@rglover) * [16 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/featured-posts-multiple-loops/#post-1147317) * Your problem is that you haven’t started the loop to get any content for your is_first_post() function to test. * I haven’t tested it, but this: * [http://wordpress.pastebin.ca/1500285](http://wordpress.pastebin.ca/1500285) * ought to do the job. —- * As for displaying posts from one category, you need to use the [query_posts()](http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/query_posts#Category_Parameters) function when building the loop. * Thread Starter [olafg1](https://wordpress.org/support/users/olafg1/) * (@olafg1) * [16 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/featured-posts-multiple-loops/#post-1147318) * Thank you so much! * I’m trying to simplify it a bit, so that you would only have one image custom field. This is what I changed: * [http://wordpress.pastebin.ca/1500307](http://wordpress.pastebin.ca/1500307) * I changed lead_image and secondary_image to image, image contains an url to the image itself, as you can see here: [http://dev.olafg.com/shop/](http://dev.olafg.com/shop/) * It will not print the lead_image * [RGlover](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rglover/) * (@rglover) * [16 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/featured-posts-multiple-loops/#post-1147319) * That makes pretty good sense. I thought about that myself when I was working on it, as I noticed you were using timthumb. * As for why it isn’t printing the large image, You’re missing an echo statement in the first if block. * [http://wordpress.pastebin.ca/1500316](http://wordpress.pastebin.ca/1500316) * Thread Starter [olafg1](https://wordpress.org/support/users/olafg1/) * (@olafg1) * [16 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/featured-posts-multiple-loops/#post-1147320) * Yeah, thanks for all your help, man. Really, thanks. I wonder why the lead image won’t print the image for the first post. * [RGlover](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rglover/) * (@rglover) * [16 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/featured-posts-multiple-loops/#post-1147321) * Sorry, I was editing when you replied. Have a look at the URL above. That should fix the problem. Viewing 14 replies - 1 through 14 (of 14 total) The topic ‘Featured posts? Multiple loops?’ is closed to new replies. * 14 replies * 3 participants * Last reply from: [RGlover](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rglover/) * Last activity: [16 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/featured-posts-multiple-loops/#post-1147321) * Status: not resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics