Andrew Nevins
(@anevins)
WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support
Are you using a static front page?
have you got any custom queries on the blog template (index.php ?) without using the ‘paged’ parameter, or using the ‘offset’ parameter?
http://codex.wordpress.org/Class_Reference/WP_Query#Pagination_Parameters
Yes, we are using a static home page. I think…
This is the code we are using on the index.php page which is the one we are customizing for the blog page:
<?php if ( have_posts() ) : ?>
<?php
global $post;
$the_newest = get_posts('numberposts=1');
$the_newer = get_posts('numberposts=3&offset=1'); ?>
<?php foreach($the_newest as $post) :
setup_postdata($post); ?>
<div class="post" id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>">
<?php the_post_thumbnail(); ?>
<h1 class="posttitle"><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h1>
<div class="postmeta">Posted in <?php the_category(', ') ?> | <?php edit_post_link('Edit', '', ' | '); ?> </div>
<div class="entry">
<?php the_content('<span>Read on »</span>'); ?>
<!-- AddThis Button BEGIN -->
<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style addthis_32x32_style">
<a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a>
<a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a>
<a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a>
<a class="addthis_button_preferred_4"></a>
<a class="addthis_button_compact"></a>
<a class="addthis_counter addthis_bubble_style"></a>
</div>
<script type="text/javascript">var addthis_config = {"data_track_addressbar":true};</script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=ra-5124ed6b2f85e2eb"></script>
<!-- AddThis Button END --> <?php comments_popup_link('No Comments', 'Comment (1)', 'Comments (%)'); ?>
</div>
</div>
<?php endforeach; ?>
<?php foreach($the_newer as $post) :
setup_postdata($post); ?>
<div id="blog-excerpt">
<?php the_post_thumbnail(); ?>
<h1 class="posttitle"><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h1>
<div class="entry">
<?php the_excerpt('<span>Read on »</span>'); ?>
</div>
<div class="postmeta">Posted in <?php the_category(', ') ?> | <?php edit_post_link('Edit', '', ' | '); ?> <!-- AddThis Button BEGIN -->
<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style addthis_32x32_style">
<a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a>
<a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a>
<a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a>
<a class="addthis_button_preferred_4"></a>
<a class="addthis_button_compact"></a>
<a class="addthis_counter addthis_bubble_style"></a>
</div>
<script type="text/javascript">var addthis_config = {"data_track_addressbar":true};</script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=ra-5124ed6b2f85e2eb"></script>
<!-- AddThis Button END --><?php comments_popup_link('No Comments', 'Comment (1)', 'Comments (%)'); ?></div>
</div>
<?php endforeach; ?>
<div class="navigation">
<div id="next-ent"><?php next_posts_link('« Previous Entries') ?></div>
<div id="prev-ent"><?php previous_posts_link('Next Entries »') ?></div>
</div>
</article><!-- #post-0 -->
<?php endif; // end have_posts() check ?>
</div><!-- #content -->
a query with the ‘offset’ paramter does not work with pagination; also ‘get_posts()’ and a ‘foreach’ loop is difficult to paginate.
if you just want to show the latest post different, there are other methods; for isntance using the loop pointer $wp_query->current_post (starts with 0 zero for the first post in each loop) in a conditional statement;
your code re-written:
http://pastebin.com/jswS2FFR
assumes that the setting – reading – blog pages show at most [ ] posts is set to 4, to get the same result as your code.
if you want to show the top post on paginated pages small, change this line:
<?php if( $wp_query->current_post == 0 ) : //latest post// ?>
to:
<?php if( $wp_query->current_post == 0 && !is_paged() ) : //latest post// ?>
Thanks Alchymyth that worked! Do you know how to make it so that when previous/next is clicked, there is not a featured blog post at the top, only on the main blog page should the featured blog show up?
Thanks!
