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First Post Shows Full Content Limit 2nd & Subsequent Posts Display Excerpts

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Brad Dalton

This tutorial for Genesis users provides the PHP code which enables you to:

  1. Show the full content for the 1st post in any archive page including, front, home, blog & category archive pages etc.
  2. After the first post, show excerpts for all other posts on the 1st page of any paginated archive page or on all paginated pages.
  3. Modify the code to display any number of posts in full and any number of subsequent posts as excerpts.
  4. Change the conditional tag for specific archive pages only.
  5. Override the Genesis > Theme Settings > Content Archives > Display settings regardless if whether they are set to display the Entry Content or Entry Excerpts.

Here’s an example showing full content for the first post and an excerpt for the second post:

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Here’s the full code for logged in members which includes 2 different solutions:

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2 responses to “First Post Shows Full Content Limit 2nd & Subsequent Posts Display Excerpts”

  1. Joelle Reeder Avatar
    Joelle Reeder

    I used this with is_home (since my posts page is not my front page) and it works great, but what if I only want the most recent post on the posts page? I want only one post, the most recent one, on the homepage, in full. And then when you paginate, it’s excerpts the whole day through. I assume it’s possible, I’m just not sure where to put such a thing. 🙂

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    1. Brad Dalton Avatar
      Brad Dalton

      You can use pre_get_posts

      But, how many posts per page did you want to show for the 2nd and subsequent paginated pages?

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