Question

I need to create a gallery in wordpress to show the latest 3 posts. The gallery will show the image of the post with the title of the post and part of the post (the paragraph that is before –more– tag in wordpress). I need it to be dynamic just when I add a new post the gallery shows that.

well I did the following code

<div class="blogsgallery">

        <?php query_posts('showposts=3'); ?>

        <?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
        <p>
        <h3>
            <a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" 
rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title(); ?>">
                <?php the_title(); ?></a>
        </h3>
        </p>

        <div class="entry-content">

            <div id="post-thumbnail">
              //the size of thumbnail 150X150 px  
              <?php the_post_thumbnail(array(150,150)); ?> 
            </div>

//The code will show only the text before the "Read More ..." tag !
                <?php 
                global $more;
                $more = 0;
                the_content("Read More ...");
                ?>
        </div>

        <?php endwhile; ?>

    </div>

This a loop to show the latest 3 posts. I need to make it a slider container. after a specific time, i.e 1 minute, slide 1 move to the left and show slide 2, etc …

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Answer 1

The easiest solution is to change the amount of posts that show up through your settings. I suppose that is not a good solution for you; here is another way to do this:

You will need to edit a page in your theme. You may edit the main page; I’d recommend you make a new page template and use that as your front page.

Then you create a variation of the loop and query_posts. Creating the loop with 3 posts (per page) would be done like this:

query_posts( 'posts_per_page=3' );

See more info in the WordPress codex; in particular, the template tags page.