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Posted by Stu Cowley
Stu Cowley
26,287 Points

Displaying a Recent Blog Post on "front-page.php"

Hi everyone!

I have a problem that I just can't find any resources on how to do something with WordPress. All I want to know is how to display a recent blog post to the 'front-page.php'. I have gone through pages and pages on Google. I did manage to come across something that I was after, but all it is doing is displaying all the blog posts on the site.

I am using a grid and a PHP loop to write display 3 of my recent posts (see code below).

``php

<div class="row">

<?php

$the_query = new WP_Query( 'posts_per_page = 1' ); 


while ($the_query -> have_posts()) : $the_query -> the_post();

for( $productCounter = 0; $productCounter <= 3; $productCounter++ ) {

    echo '<div class="col-4 blog-post-listing">';
        echo '<h4><small>'; the_date(); echo '</small></h4>';
        echo '<h3><a href="'; the_permalink(); echo '">'; the_title(); echo'</a></h3>';
        echo '<p>'; the_excerpt(); echo'</p>';
        echo '<a role="button" class="btn-clear-small" href="'; the_permalink(); echo '">'; echo'Read more</a></h3>';
    echo '</div>';

}

endwhile; wp_reset_postdata();

?>

</div><!-- /.row -->

I hope that I am making sense and I'd appreciate any help or advice on how I can achieve this, cause this problem is kicking my butt!

Many thanks

Stu :)

2 Answers

Stanley Thijssen
Stanley Thijssen
22,831 Points
Stanley Thijssen
Stanley Thijssen
22,831 Points

Hi Stu,

Can you try the following code: 

$the_query = new WP_Query( array(
     'post_type' => 'post',
     'posts_per_page' => 1,
  )
);

if ($the_query -> have_posts()) : while ($the_query -> have_posts()) : $the_query -> the_post();

// Do something with this data;

endwhile; endif; wp_reset_postdata();
Stu Cowley
Stu Cowley
26,287 Points
Stu Cowley
Stu Cowley
26,287 Points

Hi there Stanley,

Sorry for my late response, I never got a notification saying you had posted a reply.

I've tried your code out and it is working perfectly! Thank you so much :D