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Display the_content for latest post and the_excerpt for rest WordPress

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I've used this technique in the past but can't seem to find my code snippet! Booo!

OK, I'm displaying my 5 most recent posts on the home page of my website. I want the entire post (the_content) to display for my most recent post. Then I want the_excerpt to display for the 4 other posts. So like this:

<strong>Title of First Article</strong>
the_content


<strong>Title of 2nd Article</strong>
the_excerpt

<strong>Title of 3rd Article</strong>
the_excerpt

So on and so forth...you guys get the idea. Thanks!

Answers (2)

2012-06-06

Sébastien | French WordpressDesigner answers:

[[LINK href="http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/query_posts"]]http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/query_posts[[/LINK]]

<?php
query_posts("posts_per_page=1" );
while ( have_posts() ) : the_post();
the_title();
the_content();
endwhile;
wp_reset_query();


query_posts("posts_per_page=2&offset=1" );
while ( have_posts() ) : the_post();
the_title();
the_excerpt();
endwhile;
?>

2012-06-06

Jurre Hanema answers:

Sorry, but I don't think Sébastiens solution is very good. It should not be necessary to query for posts twice.

If you already have posts loop in place, just add a loop counter and a simple check so that everything looks like this:


$i = 0;

while(have_posts)):
the_post();

the_title();

if($i == 0)
{
the_content();
} else
{
the_excerpt();
}

$i++;
endwhile;