Styling the first post

This will likely be done in your theme’s index.php …

Find..
<?php if (have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : ?>
or
<?php while (have_posts()) : ?>

Update that to…
<?php if (have_posts()) : $postCount = 1; while (have_posts()) : $postCount++; ?>

Then find where you post element starts…

Here’s an example:
<div class="post" id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>">

Now update that to..
<div <?php if($postCount == 1) { ?>class="specialclass"<?php } else { ?>class="post"<?php } ?> id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>">

All posts except the first will have the usual post class, the first will have “specialclass”, but you can change the name to whatever you want…

Hope that helps.. 🙂

NOTE: If on the first part you only had.
<?php while (have_posts()) : ?>

You’ll then also need to update this area…
<?php endwhile; ?>
to
<?php endwhile; endif; ?>

lol…

At least i know i’m not going mad when i wonder if i’ve answered the post count question before… 🙂

Although the whole point of the post class is so you can style individual posts etc…

Whatever works though… 🙂