Need to exclude latest post in Wordpress

[Rory1984]

Hi,

 

I have a PHP script that was written by somebody else but I need to edit, it displays the latest issue of a magazine on Wordpress. 

What I need to do is show the 2 previous posts, excluding the most recent. So change the posts per page to 2, and then exclude the current post.

It's probably quite simple but I'm no PHP expert as yet.

 

Here is the script -

 

 

<?php if (have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>

<main id="main">

<section id="latest-edition">

<div class="row">

<?php

$args = array(

'post_type' => 'cpt_issue',

'post_status' => 'publish',

'posts_per_page' => 1,

'orderby' => 'date',

'order' => 'DESC'

);

if($issues = get_posts($args)):

foreach($issues as $issue):

list($src,$w,$h) = wp_get_attachment_image_src(get_post_thumbnail_id($issue->ID),'full');

?>

 

Thanks for your help in advance,

Rory

[QuickOldCar]

https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/query_posts

 

query_posts('posts_per_page=2&offset=1');

[Rory1984]

Thanks but that is displaying the full posts.

All the code does is identify the category and posts required which it then displays sections of below. I believe it should be something within the array, I tried this

 

$args = array(
            'post_type' => 'cpt_issue',
            'post_status' => 'publish',
            'orderby' => 'date',
            'order' => 'DESC'
            'post__not_in' => array( $post->ID )
            );

 

 

but it has an error.

Can anybody help?

thanks,

Rory

[maxxd]

Try:

$args = array(
	'post_type' => 'cpt_issue',
	'post_status' => 'publish',
	'orderby' => 'date',
	'order' => 'DESC'
	'post__not_in' => array( $post->ID )
	'posts_per_page' => 2,
	'offset' => 1
);

[Rory1984]

Perfect, thank you so much, just in time to get it to my client!!

 

Rory

[Rory1984]

The code is just missing the comma , after each line of the array in case anyone else needs to use it