How to display an excerpt of the latest post on the homepage?

  • cannyboy

    (@cannyboy)


    13 years, 7 months ago

    I’ve got a CMS-style wordpress setup where the homepage is not the main blog posts page.

    However, I would like to display the first paragraph of the latest blog post on the homepage, with a link to the post. How would I do that?

    I’d also like to display, above this excerpt, the first image within the post, but I’m guessing that might be harder… or I’ll have to use the ‘featured image’ or a custom field…?

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  • vtxyzzy

    (@vtxyzzy)

    13 years, 7 months ago

    The code below is totally UNTESTED and unstyled, but should be close to what you want. Place it ahead of the mail loop in your template.

    <?php
 global $post;
 $myposts = get_posts('numberposts=1');
 foreach($myposts as $post) :
   setup_postdata($post);
 ?>
   <a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a>
   <?php echo get_the_post_thumbnail($post->ID);
   the_excerpt();
endforeach; ?>

    You can get the first image with a call to get_the_post_thumbnail().

    If you need more control, you can use the function below:

    <?php # Displays post image attachment (sizes: thumbnail, medium, full)
function dp_attachment_image($postid=0, $size='thumbnail', $attributes='', $echo=1,       $beforeimg='', $afterimg='', $numberposts=1) {
   if ($postid<1) $postid = get_the_ID();
   if ($images = get_children(array(
      'post_parent' => $postid,
      'post_type' => 'attachment',
      'numberposts' => $numberposts,
      'post_mime_type' => 'image',)))
      foreach($images as $image) {
         $img = $beforeimg;
         $attachment=wp_get_attachment_image_src($image->ID, $size);
         $img .= "<img src='{$attachment[0]}' $attributes />";
         $img .= $afterimg;
         if ($echo) {
           echo $img;
         } else {
           return $img;
         }
      }
}?>
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