Make first post different

  • Hi, I have this code setup to grab my blog posts. I want to have my first post styled different (HTML and CSS). Would I need to create a new WP_Query? I want to have 100% flexibility, so I’m guessing this would be best option? Could someone please tell me how to do this. Thanks.

    <?php $blog_query = new WP_Query('category_name=blog&posts_per_page=5');
  while ($blog_query->have_posts()) : $blog_query->the_post();?>

<div <?php post_class() ?> id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>">

<h3><?php the_time('d/m/Y'); ?> <a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title_attribute(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h3>

<?php the_excerpt() ?>

</div><!--post-->

<?php endwhile; ?>
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  • Would I need to create a new WP_Query?

    Nope. eg:

    <?php $c = 0; $blog_query = new WP_Query('category_name=blog&posts_per_page=5');
while ($blog_query->have_posts()) : $blog_query->the_post();?>

<div <?php if( $c ==0 ) post_class('special'); else post_class() ?> id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>">

<h3><?php the_time('d/m/Y'); ?> <a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title_attribute(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h3>

<?php the_excerpt() ?>

</div><!--post-->
<?php $c++;?>
<?php endwhile; ?>

    You can then expand this to use if( $c ==0 ) to output different markup etc. and use the class .special to style the first post differently to the rest.

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