Need to distinguish LI’s independently from wp_get_archives

  • Currently I’m displaying the top 5 recent posts on my static home page with this…

    <ul>
<?php wp_get_archives('type=postbypost&limit=5'); ?>
</ul>

    I want to style each LI independently so that the most recent post is the largest and the next is smaller and the next smaller than that etc. I have the styles done but I need to know how to tell WP to add a class name to each LI with like a number or letter to decipher the first, second, third, etc…

    So the output I’d want something like this:

    <ul>
<li class="recent1">link 1</li>
<li class="recent2">link 2</li>
<li class="recent3">link 3</li>
<li class="recent4">link 4</li>
<li class="recent5">link 5</li>
</ul>

    Thank you in advance.

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  • I don’t think wp_get_archives() could do that. Perhaps try get_posts() followed by foreach() with an increment.

    You could try to take a look at the Fold Page List plugin. It’s got some code in there that you could use do do what you wanted to. (I’ve done this very thing before – I needed each LI to have a class, as well, so I borrowed the fold page list plugin and edited it a bit for my needs. Worked fine!)

    Thread Starter Chuck Reynolds

    (@ryno267)

    I’m not getting how to do the incremental class names with get_posts()

    I’m trying to run this within a page post with runPHP also.

    Any help azaozz? or anybody else?

    Wish I could find a site with that I’m trying to do for an example…

    Try something like this in your theme’s sidebar.php:

    <?php
 $myposts = get_posts('numberposts=5');
 foreach($myposts as $key => $post) {
 ?>
    <li class="recent<?php echo $key; ?>"><a href="<?php echo get_permalink($post->ID); ?>"><?php echo $post->post_title; ?></a></li>
 <?php } ?>

    Thread Starter Chuck Reynolds

    (@ryno267)

    score… that seems to work fine and dandy…

    thanks again.

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