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Wordpress - Show most recent posts

Hi there!

I am building a custom Wordpress theme and need to show the most recent posts on the homepage. However, I want to show the latest post as a "Featured Article" where it will show the title, an excerpt, and a link to the full post. For the following posts, I only want to show the title and a link to the article.

I know how to show the most recent posts using "query_post", but I'm not entirely sure how to pull this off. Would someone be able give me a hand? Thanks.

Adam

Asked: 2011-03-07

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adeelshahidCommented: 2011-03-07

use this,

query_posts('posts_per_page=1');

while ( have_posts() ) : the_post();

      // show title
      the_title();

      // show link
      the_permalink();

endwhile;

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AdamAuthor Commented: 2011-03-07

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?

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adeelshahidCommented: 2011-03-07

buddy try this one,

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

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AdamAuthor Commented: 2011-03-07

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.

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jeremyjared74Commented: 2011-03-07

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.

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adeelshahidCommented: 2011-03-07

query_posts('posts_per_page=1');

$post_id = -1;

while ( have_posts() ) : the_post();

       $post_id = $post->ID;

// show title
the_title();

// show link
the_permalink();

       // show content
the_content('...continue');

endwhile;

query_posts(
                  array(
                          'posts_per_page' => 10,
                          'post__not_in' => $post_id,
                          'post_status' => 'publish'
                          )
                  );

$counter = 1;
while (have_posts()) : the_post();

      the_title();
      the_permalink();
      the_content('...continue');

endwhile;

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AdamAuthor Commented: 2011-03-07

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?

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AdamAuthor Commented: 2011-03-07

Thanks adeelshahid. I appreciate the help.

I'll give that a try.

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AdamAuthor Commented: 2011-03-07

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: