Different styling for first post

  • Resolved Picaresque

    (@picaresque)


    14 years, 9 months ago

    First of all:
    I googled and tried everything, but nothing worked so far. I hope I can get help here…

    I want to achieve the same thing as this guy:

    http://ww.wp.xz.cn/support/topic/styling-fist-post?replies=2
    I tried to adapt that to the theme (Btw I use the theme Toolbox with a child theme), but it didn’t work.
    Maybe I did put the code in the wrong place…

    Index.php:

    <?php if ( have_posts() ) : $postCount = 1; ?>

				<?php toolbox_content_nav( 'nav-above' ); ?>

				<?php /* Start the Loop */ ?>
				<?php while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); $postCount++; ?>

					<?php
						/* Include the Post-Format-specific template for the content.
						 * If you want to overload this in a child theme then include a file
						 * called content-___.php (where ___ is the Post Format name) and that will be used instead.
						 */
						get_template_part( 'content', get_post_format() );
					?>

    and in the content.php

    <article id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>" <?php post_class(); ?>>

	<header class="entry-header">
		<h1 class="entry-title"><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>" title="<?php printf( esc_attr__( 'Permalink to %s', 'toolbox' ), the_title_attribute( 'echo=0' ) ); ?>" rel="bookmark"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h1>

		<?php if ( 'post' == get_post_type() ) : ?>
		<div class="entry-meta">
			<?php toolbox_posted_on(); ?>
		</div><!-- .entry-meta -->
		<?php endif; ?>
	</header><!-- .entry-header -->

    etc.
    …i changed the first line (<article…) to:

    <article <?php if($postCount == 1) { ?>class="specialclass"<?php } else { ?>class="post"<?php } ?> id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>">

    Maybe this is totally wrong (but I’m new to php and still learning)…

    Can somebody help me with this?

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  • Michael

    (@alchymyth)

    14 years, 9 months ago

    you start with: $postCount = 1; then first thing in the loop, you increment $postCount: $postCount++;
    so when it reaches content.php, it is already at least 2

    also, you probably need to set $postCount as a global variable.

    ———–
    easier without extra variable:
    change from:

    <article id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>" <?php post_class(); ?>>

    to:

    <article id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>" <?php $extra = ( $wp_query->current_post == 0 && !is_paged() ) ? 'specialclass' : ''; post_class($extra); ?>>

    this way you also keep all the post_classes which might be used in style.css

    explanation:
    $wp_query->current_post is the current post number in the loop, starting with 0 zero;

    post_class($extra); post_class takes extra classes as parameters;

    !is_paged() in case of paginated pages, restricts to first page only;

    Thread Starter Picaresque

    (@picaresque)

    14 years, 9 months ago

    Thank you soo much! I was really frustrated yesterday, because I couldn’t find the solution. But that finally worked.
    And thanks for the explanation, as well! 🙂

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