displaying separate posts based on sequential order

  • Hello All,

    I am trying to figure out how to display the three most recent posts in three separate areas of my main page. I have three boxes that will have the three most recent posts in them. Box 1 has the most recent, box 2 the second most recent, and box 3 the third most recent. When a new post is made, what is in the boxes will change. I only want to display one post per box.

    I have tried

    <?php
$posts=get_posts('numberposts=3&offset=0');
foreach ($posts as $post) :
?>
<h2><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h2>
<p><?php echo limit_words(get_the_excerpt(), '40'); ?></p>
<a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>">Read More >></a>
<?php endforeach ?>

    This works until I reload the page and it keeps adding posts into the boxes. Any help would be great. Thank you very much.

    Harberg

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  • You need to add the posts to a div

    <?php
$posts=get_posts('numberposts=3&offset=0'); $counter=0;
foreach ($posts as $post) :
$counter++; $class =($counter == 3) ? ' last' : '';	?>
<div class="box<?php echo $class; ?>">
	<h2><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h2>
	<p><?php echo limit_words(get_the_excerpt(), '40'); ?></p>
	<a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>">Read More >></a>
</div>
<?php endforeach; ?>

    Stylesheet:

    .box {
	width: 30.75%;
	margin-right: 3.8%;
	float: left;
	min-height: 1px;
}
.last {
	margin-right: 0px;
}

    HTH

    David

    Thread Starter harberg

    (@harberg)

    David,

    Thank you this is working great. There is one problem, no the get_excerpt is no longer showing up.

    Any ideas what caused this?

    The excerpt by default is set at 40, the excerpt does not need the <p> or echo, so you could change it to:

    <?php the_excerpt(); ?>

    Also after the endforeach, add a clear.

    <div style="clear:both:"></div>

    HTH

    David

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