digstertron

The queries were both met, I added relevant HTML to both the if and else statement.

I’ll come back to it tomorrow. Completely mind numbingly irritating, all I want to do is display the very latest post at the top of the blog page with the remaining posts in a row below. I’ve found writing HTML and CSS quite easy but this PHP is another level of nonsense ??

Thanks ever so much for your help though.

• This reply was modified 3 years, 2 months ago by digstertron.

Here is what I see:

Screen grab

There is no error now only the echoed out content does not appear at all. All I see is the header and footer.

I realise it’s something I’ve done but this is madenning, is this code correct?

<?php

get_header('topbar'); ?>
	
<div class="blog_container">
		<h2 class="blog-title">
		Latest News
		</h2>
	<p>
		News information and much more.
	</p>
</div>

<?php 
$posts_query = new WP_Query( $query_args );

if ( $posts_query->have_posts()) { 

  $first_post = true;
  while ( $posts_query->have_posts() ) { 
    $posts_query->the_post();
    
    if ( $first_post ) {
     echo '<h2>This is where my latest post will appear</h2>';
    } else {
      echo '<h2>This is where all subsequent posts should appear</h2>';
}

    $first_post = false;
  } 

}

wp_reset_postdata();

?>
	

<?php get_footer();

?>

Tried both options the problem persists.

Thank you.

Here is the latest code, notice the if and else statements are blank I tried to reverse engineer the code, whenever I add html it breaks but here is my code:

<?php

get_header('topbar'); ?>
	
<div class="blog_container">
		<h2 class="blog-title">
		Latest News
		</h2>
	<p>
		News information and much more.
	</p>
</div>

$posts_query = new WP_Query( $query_args );

if ( $posts_query->have_posts()) { 

  $first_post = true;
  while ( $posts_query->have_posts() ) { 
    $posts_query->the_post();
    
    if ( $first_post ) {
    
    } else {
      
    }

    $first_post = false;
  } 

}

wp_reset_postdata();

	

		
<?php 
?>
<?php get_footer();

?>

I should probably start a new thread but the code you provided does not work when I apply any line of HTML. Incredibly frustrating, there is no reason why it shouldn’t work and now I get parsing errors every time I add HTML after the if and else statements.

Ok it’s working sort of but I am seeing raw code on the front end, any ideas?

Unfortunately it doesn’t work. WP throws an eppy and complains about unexpected ‘<‘ tags which are just div containers that I’ve set for the blog post info to occupy.

<?php

get_header('topbar'); ?>

<div class="blog_container">
<h2 class="blog-title">
Latest News
</h2>
<p>
News information and much more.
</p>
</div>

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

<div class="container blog_info">
	<div class="post-item">
		<div class="post-image"><?php the_post_thumbnail(); ?></div>
	</div>

	<div class="blog_outter">			
		<h2 class="blog_heading">
			<a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a>
		</h2>
		
			<div class="blog_author">
				<div class="author_image"><?php echo get_avatar( get_the_author_meta('ID'), 60); ?></div>
			
				<div class="author-profile"><?php the_author_posts_link();?></div>
				<div class="category__list__card">
						<p class="cat">
							<?php echo get_the_category_list(', '); ?>
						</p>
				</div>
			
				<div class="post__stamp">
					<?php the_time('F j, Y'); ?>
				</div>		
			</div>
	</div>	
</div>

<?php }
?>
<?php get_footer();

?>

• This reply was modified 3 years, 2 months ago by digstertron.
• This reply was modified 3 years, 2 months ago by digstertron.

Thanks Matt,

Sorry I misread your original post, of course the code resides in index.php file which powers my blog page. I shall give it a whirl and let you know how I get on. Cheers!

Hi there,

This is great info, many thanks.

Would the code above reside in the actual index file or functions.php file?
Also I already have the famous while loop, I guess your code would replace this?

• This reply was modified 3 years, 2 months ago by digstertron.