Front page to show 1st post full, rest as excerpts?

  • Resolved realepicurean

    (@realepicurean)


    14 years, 11 months ago

    Hi guys,
    I want to program a loop (2 loops?) so that my front page shows the first post in full (well, up to the “read more”), and the rest as excerpts.

    How do I go about that?

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  • If you only want this on the frontpage, I would suggest you use home.php. If your theme doesn’t have a home.php, just copy index.php and rename it.

    Then edit it like this:

    Replace

    <?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>

    with 

    <?php $i = 0; while (have_posts()) : the_post(); $i++; ?>

    Then modify 

    <?php the_content('Read the rest of this entry &raquo;'); ?>

    to 

    <?php
if($i == 1)
the_content('Read the rest of this entry &raquo;');
else
the_excerpt();
?>

    I think that oughta do it.

    Thread Starter realepicurean

    (@realepicurean)

    Ta!

    Exactly what I needed. You guys are awesome, thanks!

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