Displaying different catagories

[CharlesClarkson]

Originally Posted by parker3773

I have two questions

It is usually best to limit one question to a topic.

Originally Posted by parker3773

1.) Is there a way to highlight the newest blog entry on the home page? I would like to make the first post a little larger than the others.

I can think of several ways. You could add a counter to the PHP code. On the first pass of the Loop, add an id to the post called "first-post". Then increment the counter.

Read more about The Loop.


In home.php somewhere outside the Loop, like under the "<!--This is where ..." comment add the counter:

<?php $post_counter = 1; ?>

Inside the Loop, replace:

<?php the_content_limit(400, "[Read more]"); ?>

with this:

<?php if ( $post_counter == 1 ) :
	<div id="first-post">
		<?php the_content_limit(400, "[Read more]"); ?>
	</div>
	<?php $post_counter++; ?>
<?php else: ?>
	<?php the_content_limit(400, "[Read more]"); ?>
<?php endif; ?>

In style.css add a section for the first-post id and style to your hearts content.

Originally Posted by parker3773

2.) Rather than posting the last 5 posts in the same topic, I would like to post the first 2 in different topics. How do I do that?

That's going to require a few checks and a bit of programming logic. You will need to know how The Loop works and how to use query_posts(). query_posts() and WP_Query() use the same parameters, but there is no page for WP_Query. Look at the "offset" and "showposts" examples for a clues on how to get just one post and how to skip it later.

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HTH,