Are you looking for a way to add a class to the first post in The Loop? This snippet will add a first class to the first post in The Loop, which will let you add unique styling to the first post.
Instructions:
All you have to do is add this code to your theme’s functions.php file or in a site-specific plugin:
add_filter( 'post_class', 'wps_first_post_class' );
function wps_first_post_class( $classes ) {
global $wp_query;
if( 0 == $wp_query->current_post )
$classes[] = 'first';
return $classes;
}
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Any idea why this does not work with woo shortcode? It adds class to each product in the loop. It works ok at the shop page.
Which shortcode are you using?
Hi,
This has worked great, however, if I have pagination and i go, say, page 2, it adds the class to the first post on page 2, which I don’t particularly want. How would I be able to update the code to add the ‘first’ class to the first post of all the posts, even counting those paginated.
Thanks a lot for the article it’s been very helpful! 🙂
Yeah! for adding a last class to the post, need only to add a condition like $wp_query->current_post === $wp_query->found_posts?
Something like this should work,
if( $wp_query->current_post == $wp_query->post_count-1 )
Thank you man, i was unsafe about found_posts start from 0 (my bad). However, in same cases post_count isn’t a right choice because it contain the total number of posts being displayed. The use of found_posts or post_count depend which query had been performed, post_count have the same value of “posts_per_page” if is defined in a query or the default value defined into the read settings (sorry for my english).
Hi Widzo, I think it depends on the results you want, if you want to add the class to the last post on every page you would use “post_count” on the very last post only you would use “found_post”
great! And if I want to add a class always to the fourth column of the loop? For example, I have a loop showing my posts into 4 columns and I need to add this class to the right column. How can I do that?
Thanks
Hi Fabio, I would need to see your columns loop in order to see what would need to be done.