[Resolved] Getting a Featured Post to only show on the first blog page archive

[Nancy]

Hi,

I’ve been scouring through different approaches, reading documentation and I’m just not seeing a way to have a Featured Post (it’s really the latest post – we aren’t tagging it) to only show on the first page of the Blog archive.

I would hide it with CSS but I’m not sure how to do a range for the archive pages to set a “display:none”. But if I could target to have the featured post only show on the first page, that would be ideal if there is a means of targeting that in the display rules? Right now I have it set for “Blog” and attempted to exclude for “All Archives” which didn’t work :).

I have the featured post as a “Hero” block.

[Nancy]

I got the answer to this quandry so will share it and a big thank you to Mike Oliver.

I have the Featured Post (really the latest post) set as a hero block. On that block for “display rules” to “blog” for display. Then “Exclude” select “Paginated Results”. Be sure to clear the cache.

For the Loop template for the archive, I have that separately as a block. On that, in the Query Loop, add the Parameter to Offset “1”.

Once the cache clears it should be fine.

[Fernando]

Hi Nancy,

Glad you resolved the issue! Thank you for sharing the solution as well!

[Nancy]

Hi Fernando,

I ended up (and thank you for answering the question in support) using “Inherit Query from Template” so I could have the nice SEO friendly pagination with page/2/ instead of page/2/?query-bbb96b2e-page=2 (yikes).

But losing the offset by 1 means a repeating article. Anyway to do that another way so I can offset by 1 for the query loop after the hero area?

Thanks,
Nancy

[Fernando]

You can set an offset through code.

Try adding this PHP:

function wpsites_exclude_latest_post( $query ) {
	if ( ( $query->is_home() || is_archive() ) && $query->is_main_query() ) {
		$query->set( 'offset', '1' );
	}
}

add_action( 'pre_get_posts', 'wpsites_exclude_latest_post', 1 );

Adding PHP: https://docs.generatepress.com/article/adding-php/#code-snippets

[Nancy]

Fantastic – works great! Best of both worlds. Thank you Fernando!

[Nancy]

Well darn, I spoke to soon – it seems to repeat the query loop and doesn’t update going from page 2 on. I’ll try to convince the client to live with the extra stuff in the URL.

[Fernando]

That’s odd. That code should just offset the query by 1.

The ?query-string URL is the only method we can reliably allow pagination on query loops in static pages.

The alternative would be to use a Block Element – Content Template instead. Using the code I provided to offset the query should work in this instance as well. Reference: https://docs.generatepress.com/article/block-element-content-template/

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