first theme help. incorrect post titles

  • kilgoretrout

    (@kilgoretrout)


    13 years, 4 months ago

    Hi. I am new to wordpress, php, and coding in general. I am working on my first theme.

    I’m having a problem with my post titles. The first post title displays correctly. The second, however seems to be just a repeat of the first. The second title is displayed where the third title should be.

    I think it may have something to do with the post counter I put in to set the css div id’s for the posts…i’m not sure if php can have an “if” within an “if”. Can someone help?

    My index.php looks like this:

    <?php get_header(); ?>
<div id="main">
       <div id="post">
<?php
$counter1=0;
if (have_posts()) :
   while (have_posts()) :
	$counter1++;
   ?>

<?php
if ($counter1==1) echo"<div id='post1'><!--post1 css divider-->\n";
if ($counter1==2) echo"<div id='post2'><!--post2 css divider-->\n";
if ($counter1==3) echo"<div id='post3'><!--post3 css divider-->\n";

?>

<h2 id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>">
<a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title(); ?>">
<?php the_title(); ?></a></h2>
<small><?php the_time('F jS, Y') ?> <!-- by <?php the_author() ?> --></small>

<?php
      the_post();
      the_content();
if ($counter1==1) echo"</div><!--end post1 divider-->\n";
if ($counter1==2) echo"</div><!--end post2 divider-->\n";
if ($counter1==3) echo"</div><!--end post3 divider-->\n";
   endwhile;
endif;

?>
        </div><!-- post -->  

</div>
<?php get_sidebar(); ?>
<?php get_footer(); ?>
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  • Moderator Jose Castaneda

    (@jcastaneda)

    THEME COFFEE MONKEY

    13 years, 4 months ago

    What exactly are you attempting to do? I’m a little lost.

    Thread Starter kilgoretrout

    (@kilgoretrout)

    13 years, 4 months ago

    I want my front page to display 3 posts. Which I’ve set it to do in wordpress settings.

    I also need to position each post on the front page. I’m trying to do that by giving each post it’s own division id. that’s what the $counter1 variable and if statements do.

    every time the loop runs it increments $counter1 by 1. thus you get div id=post1, post2, etc…

    Moderator Jose Castaneda

    (@jcastaneda)

    THEME COFFEE MONKEY

    13 years, 4 months ago

    One solution would be:

    $div = 0;
// Create the initial WordPress loop and if our div is less than three it will run the loop
while ( have_posts() && $div++<3 ): the_post(); ?>
	<div class="post-<?php echo $div; ?>">
		<?php the_content(); ?>
	</div><!-- post-<?php echo $div; ?> -->
<?php
// End the loop
endwhile;

    Keep in mind this a decent hack. It will keep iterating three times each time if it is in index.php

    Michael

    (@alchymyth)

    13 years, 4 months ago

    http://codex.ww.wp.xz.cn/Function_Reference/the_post

    the_post() is virtually always used directly after while( have_posts() ) : directly at the start of the loop;

    in layman’s words it does something like: ‘let us go on to the next post and prepare all output stuff’

    (it does not actually ouput anything)

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