Display entire first post, then exerpts of the rest (in catagory page)

Hey folks,

I have almost the same problem. I have created a page template I want to use as my first page. The page shows a normal WP page and I’d love to list last five posts of my actual blog under the page. I have tried many plug-ins but they all seem to have some problems to function properly in the page template.

Can anybody help?

Visiblemedia, this shouldn’t be too hard. Maybe it’s something like this:

This will get your first post:

<?php
$my_query = new WP_Query('showposts=1');
while ($my_query->have_posts()) : $my_query->the_post();
$do_not_duplicate = $post->ID;
?>
<?php the_content(); ?>
<?php endwhile; ?>

To get your next posts:

<?php $posts = get_posts('numberposts=4&offset=1');
foreach ($posts as $post): setup_postdata($post); ?>
<?php the_excerpt(); ?>
<?php endforeach; ?>

Of course, you’ll have to format that with XHTML, and add whatever else you want — post meta, time and date, title, etc.

Put this code into your home.php or index.php file.

Zqw, I think you should just be able to add the code below to make it work.

<ul>
<?php $posts = get_posts('numberposts=5');
foreach ($posts as $post): setup_postdata($post); ?>
<li>
<a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>" title="<?php the_title(); ?>">
<?php the_title(); ?></a>
</li>
<?php endforeach; ?>
</ul>

That’ll give you a list of the last 5 posts.