Question

If somebody give me some ideas, or point me in the right direction it would be great.

I need to build a custom query in Twenty Eleven theme that displays 9 posts on the main page and 1 sticky post on the very bottom. The other pages would display just 10 regular posts.

Can you tell me how would I do that. Is content.php the only file I would need to modify.

Thank you in advance for any info.

Answer 1

You can modify the number of posts returned using the query_posts() function. http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/query_posts

For example:

<?php 
    query_posts('showposts=9');
    if ( have_posts() ) : while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); 
?>

<a href="<?php echo get_permalink(); ?>" title="<?php the_title(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a>

<?php endwhile; ?>


<?php endif; ?>
<?php wp_reset_query(); ?>