Wordpress - Show most recent posts

use this,


query_posts('posts_per_page=1');

while ( have_posts() ) : the_post();
      
      // show title
      the_title();

      // show link
      the_permalink();

endwhile;

Thanks adeelshahid.

However, unless I'm mistaken, won't your solution just show the title and link for a single post? I think you might have misread my question.

I was asking for a way to show the most recent post (title, link, and an excerpt from the article) then, all the following articles, i want to show just the title and link.

I appreciate the help but I think your solution only covers part of what I'm looking to do. Do you know what I would need to do to achieve what I'm looking for?

buddy try this one,

http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/query_posts
you will find better idea's to do things here.

Thanks - I've looked through the reference before.

I have a specific question that I was looking to get help with which is why I posted here.

To get the latest posts in a list format add this to the loop:

<?php get_archives('postbypost', '10', 'custom', '<li>', '</li>'); ?>

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This will show the 10 latest posts in a list.


Recent Posts with Summary:

    <ul>
    <?php query_posts('showposts=5'); ?>

    <?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
    <li><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></li>

    <li><?php the_excerpt(__('(more…)')); ?></li>
    <?php endwhile;?>
    </ul>

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Recent Posts with Full Content

    <ul>
    <?php query_posts('showposts=5'); ?>

    <?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
    <li><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></li>

    <li><?php the_content(__('(more…)')); ?></li>
    <?php endwhile;?>
    </ul>

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Let me know if you nave any questions.

Hi Jeremy,

Thanks for the reply. But I think something might still be missing here. To make this more simple, this is what I'm looking to show on the homepage:

Post Title 1
>>Article Text
Read More Link

Post Title 2
Read More Link

Post Title 3
Read More Link

So from the sounds of it, I need two query posts. One that shows the latest post with text, the a second that shows the other recent posts (without the latest post - as it will already be showing) and doesn't show the article text.

Does that make sense?

Thanks adeelshahid. I appreciate the help.

I'll give that a try.

adeelshahid:

I gave the code you provided a try and initially got an error. It was stemming from 'post__not_in'. I did a little searching a found a forum where someone mentioned that 'post__not_in' needs to call an array. So I changed:

post__not_in' => $post_id

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to

post__not_in' => array($post_id)

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And it seems to be working just fine now. Thanks so much for the help!

Please see my last comment for a minor adjustment to the code for it to work properly.