Ok. It seems that the single.php is not being used and it is defaulting to the index.php? Is this possible? Am I missing code to generate a single post within the single.php? Please help.
Ok, after hours of searching I found the code in the codex pages.
Offset Parameter
You can displace or pass over one or more initial posts which would normally be collected by your query through the use of the offset parameter.
The following will display the 5 posts which follow the most recent (1):
query_posts(‘showposts=5&offset=1’);
I am looking for some support on how to insert php coding into the excerpt in the admin. I would like to call for the php the title and date so I can insert it under an image in the excerpt instead of it showing up above. I don’t want to manually code it but would rather use php the_permalink. I can alter the loop to get rid of it showing up in front of the excerpt, but if I want to insert it somewhere in the_excerpt, it does not like php coding in the admin. Advice?