First full post and the rest reduced with read more option

Arlindovsky
May 28, 2012 at 8:17 am #4647

I wonder if it’s possible on the first page to present the first full post and the other reduced with the option read more

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Kenneth John Odle
May 28, 2012 at 5:32 pm #28784

This issue came up about a month ago and I don’t think we got any resolution of the topic. I did post some links there to things you might want to try if you have the time:

https://forum.graphene-theme.com/graphene-support/need-help-with-exerpts

Anonymous
May 28, 2012 at 8:02 pm #28785

Could we write a custom excerpt length function… and use conditionals to only call it on the “sticky” post?

I think the first post would HAVE to be sticky, since I’m not sure there is a conditional to test for if it’s the first post. But, I know we can conditionally test if it is a sticky.

@Arlindovsky, will this first post always be a sticky… or not?

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Kenneth John Odle
May 28, 2012 at 8:19 pm #28786

I think you could control this using an offset for the other posts. That’s how magazine style themes handle it, I believe.
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Syahir Hakim
May 29, 2012 at 1:03 am #28787
Quote:

I think the first post would HAVE to be sticky, since I’m not sure there is a conditional to test for if it’s the first post. But, I know we can conditionally test if it is a sticky.

There is, but not exactly a conditional function. There’s a global variable called $wp_query which contains the current index of posts in a loop, among a whole lot of other things.

Try doing this in the posts loop to see what value it contains:
```
<?php global $wp_query; echo $wp_query->current_post; ?>
```