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For the record found a way of outputting the result using a counter in php, thanks all:

https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/bold-up-first-result-of-loop

Thanks Mark!

That was exactly what I was looking for – much appreciated.

for the record here’s the code I ended with:

<?php $i = 0; if ( have_posts() ) while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); ?>
	<?php $i++; ?>
	<?php if( 1 == $i ) { ?>
		<li class="current"><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></li>
	<?php } else { ?>
		<li><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></li>
	<?php } ?>
<?php endwhile; ?>

Also found a way of doing using css2 though browser support is still a bit behind thanks to Curtiss for this one:

https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/bold-first-post-title-in-category

Hi Curtis

That worked perfectly! Thanks very much. I never knew that class existed.

Fingers crossed ie6 disappears soon. But just in case anyone knows any other solutions, please let me know.

Thanks again!

Hi Alchymyth

Thanks for your help. Unfortunately I seem to be going backwards and getting confused. I couldn’t seem to make it work and so have found other code which at it’s core seems to do a better job but I need to set up a conditional tag to execute the code – or not – according to it’s parent category.

The basic code i got from here:

https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/how-do-i-display-post-titles-from-current-category-and-highlight-active-post

but they never posted the final code to stop duplication of the posts on the category page and my conditional code seems to send it in an infite loop.

Anyway here’s my code if someone could take a look i’d hugely appreciate it:

https://wordpress.pastebin.com/0jM8SDEY

Doh!

Sorry solved it myself. Was simply missing off the:

<?php wp_reset_query(); ?>

Thanks. I had the same problem. Simply reinstating the permalinks fixed it.

Untested but give this a try…

<?php $postslist = get_posts('category=5&numberposts=1&order=DESC&orderby=post_date');
     foreach ($postslist as $post) :
     setup_postdata($post); ?>
   <li><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>">Work</a></li>
<?php endforeach; ?>

esmi I love you.

Not really, but it worked using:

$customField = get_post_custom_values('blue_title', ($single->ID));

Thanks much appreciated!

Thanks apljdi that worked!

Thanks for replying, but still no luck….

Cor blimey! just solved my own problem. Wonders will never cease.

Thanks anyway guys:

<?php
$result = "<ul class='lcp_catlist'>";
$catposts = get_posts('this_months_news='.$ID."&numberposts=".$NUMBEROFPOSTS);
foreach($catposts as $single):
	$result .= "<li><a href='";
	$result .=get_permalink($single->ID)."'>".$single->post_title."'<img src='".p75GetThumbnail($single->ID, 110, 110)."' /></a></li>";
endforeach;
$result .= "</ul>";
echo $result;
   ?>

Thanks Orenshmu i’ll take a look.

Thanks for replying and poiinting me in the right direction. I’m pulling my hair out with what seems like a simple idea.

If i have any luck i’ll post it, I’ve seen a few people with the same issue.

Phew Thanks for replying,

Sorry as I said my php is rusty, so not sure what you mean. In the sidebar.php i’m using…

<?php wp_list_pages ('child_of=31&sort_column=post_title&title_li='); ?>

to display my list of child pages, do you mean leave claases.php alone and alter this using echo=0 somehow to display the custom fields thumbs?

Any futher help would be greatly appreciated t310s, I’m really struggling here.

Anyone?