[Plugin: Yet Another Related Posts Plugin] split the results

@tammyhart, that shouldn’t be too hard using the YARPP templates feature:

https://mitcho.com/blog/projects/yarpp-3-templates/

You can start with the yarpp-template-example code, then keep track of “firstness” by saying $i=0;, add a$i++; within the loop, then do the separate formatting through some conditional like if ( i == 0 ). Should be straightforward if you’re comfortable with PHP. Hope that helps.

I will tinker with that some, but I’m pretty much a php noob ??

Would this allow me to put the other three in a function that I can only use in the templates i want. For instance, on the homepage, i only want the first one, but on the single page, i want to have the other three as well.

Thanks so much.

@tammyhart yes, you could do that by wrapping the whole template code in a conditional like if (is_single()) and then just having two versions of the YARPP template code.

Thanks, I was able to get some help from my good pal, Aaron Forgue. For anyone else wanting to do this, here is the code he put in the template:

<?php
	$GLOBALS['relatedPosts'] = array();

	if ($related_query->have_posts()) {
		while ($related_query->have_posts()) {
			$related_query->the_post();

			$GLOBALS['relatedPosts'][] = array(
				'permalink' => get_permalink(),
				'title' => get_the_title()
			);
		}
	}
?>

<?php if (count($GLOBALS['relatedPosts'])) { ?>
	<ol id="related">
		<li><strong>Related Article:</strong> <a href="<?php echo $GLOBALS['relatedPosts'][0]['permalink']; ?>" rel="bookmark"><?php echo $GLOBALS['relatedPosts'][0]['title']; ?></a><!-- (<?php the_score(); ?>)--></li>
	</ol>
<?php } else { ?>
	<p>No related posts.</p>
<?php } ?>

and here is the code in the single template:

<?php if (count($GLOBALS['relatedPosts']) > 1) { ?>
<h3 class="divider">More Related Posts</h3>
	<ol id="more-related">
	<?php for ($i = 1; $i < count($GLOBALS['relatedPosts']); $i++) { ?>
		<li><a href="<?php echo $GLOBALS['relatedPosts'][$i]['permalink']; ?>" rel="bookmark"><?php echo $GLOBALS['relatedPosts'][$i]['title']; ?></a><!-- (<?php the_score(); ?>)--></li>
	<?php } ?>
	</ol>
<?php } ?>

Thanks for sharing Tammy.