List of authors posts minus very latest

There’s no need for multiple queries – posts are, by default, ordered by most recent. Just apply a classname for the first post on the first page: <article <?php post_class( $wp_query->current_post === 0 && ! is_paged() ? ‘my-awesome-first-post’ : ” ) ?> The first post of the first page will have the class my-awesome-first-post. Update: … Read more

Hide title in Merlin Theme on posts and pages only

Your theme correctly uses the body_class function, which you can see by looking at the body tag. This means CSS classes are being added such as page or post that you can work with. e.g. body.page .entry-title { display: none; } There are many other CSS classes that may be useful to you, I suggest … Read more

Surrogate ID for posts, is there an alternative field in the posts table?

It depends on how are you importing those posts. You can use wp_insert_post() with import_id: $postToBeInserted = array( ‘post_title’ => ‘Your Post Title’, ‘post_content’ => ‘Your post content…’, ‘import_id’ => 154 ); wp_insert_post($postToBeInserted); If there is no post with the specified import_id the post will have that ID. That way you won’t have to deal … Read more