Bug in handling of the_excerpt?

  • I’m polishing up a new theme that shows a single post in full, followed by five excerpts. My code goes something like this

    query_posts (posts_per_page = 1)
if have_posts
while have_posts the_post
-- do single-post stuff -

global $post
$myposts = get_posts('numberposts=5&offset=1')
foreach($myposts as $post) :

-- do recent-excerpt stuff
endforeach
endwhile

else
-- 404 stuff
endif

    So here’s the weird part: if I’ve explicitly written excerpt text for the excerpted entries, they appear correctly. If I do not, then I get clipped text from the most recent entry (that is, the one being shown in full).

    There may be a better way to organize all this, and I’d appreciate any guidance on restructuring the whole latest-post/excerpted-post stuff.

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  • I would recommend organizing it this way:

    <?php
$posts = get_posts("numberposts=1");
foreach($posts as $post) : setup_postdata($post);
?>

FORMAT SINGLE POST IN FULL
(Use the_title(), the_content(), etc. since we used setup_postdata().)

<?php
endforeach;
?>

<?php
$posts = get_posts("numberposts=5&offset=1");
foreach($posts as $post) : setup_postdata($post);
?>

FORMAT OTHER FIVE EXCERPT POSTS
(Use the_title(), the_excerpt(), etc. since we used setup_postdata().)

<?php
endforeach;
?>

    With my WordPress install (2.1.3) the database doesn’t produce any errors if there aren’t enough posts to fulfill the get_posts() query. If it requests 5 and there’s only 3, then it just shows those three.

    Let me know if this works for you.

    Thread Starter adamrice

    (@adamrice)

    That was quick, thank you. Seems to work fine.

    One potential problem is that there’s no fallback when there are zero posts. Of course, that’s an edge case, and I can live with this.

    fwiw, the blog is https://8stars.org/a

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