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    <p>First of all - this is a question mainly about <strong>the loop</strong>™. I'm also having problems with the attachment thing, but that is somehow secondary since there are snippets around there I think could be useful.</p> <p>Ok, so this is want I want to do in a front page:</p> <ul> <li>get 7 posts from custom post type 'portfolio'</li> <li>only with the first one, get an specific attachment (in any possible way, be it filename, order in the media manager... whatever is the best, more clean way)</li> <li>with the other 6, just get the_post_thumbnail() and little more.</li> </ul> <p>Now, I have this:</p> <pre><code>&lt;?php $args = array ( 'post_type' =&gt; 'portfolio', 'order' =&gt; 'DESC', 'posts_per_page' =&gt; 7 ); $query = new WP_Query( $args ); $first_post = true; /* we will take the latest work first */ ?&gt; &lt;?php if ( $query-&gt;have_posts() ) : ?&gt; &lt;?php while ( $query-&gt;have_posts() ) : $query-&gt;the_post(); ?&gt; &lt;?php if ($first_post): $first_post = false; ?&gt; &lt;div&gt; /* This is the div for the first item */ &lt;?php /* let's take the first attachment */ $args = array( 'post_type' =&gt; 'attachment', 'numberposts' =&gt; 1, 'order' =&gt; 'DESC' ); $attachments = get_posts( $args ); if ( $attachments ) : foreach ( $attachments as $attachment ) : echo wp_get_attachment_image( $attachment-&gt;ID, 'full' ); endforeach; endif; ?&gt; &lt;/div&gt; &lt;?php else: ?&gt; /* Do something with the other 6 posts and their post_thumbnail */ &lt;?php endif ?&gt; &lt;?php endwhile; ?&gt; </code></pre> <p>And now for the questions:</p> <ul> <li><p>First and foremost: if I set 'numberposts' to all (-1) when trying to recover the attachment, I get ALL attachments from ALL 'portfolio' posts. Shouldn't I be interacting only with the current post (the_post())? I can't quite grasp the concept of the loop here, this is the main question.</p></li> <li><p>That code won't get me the first attachment, even if it's placed in the first place in that post's media manager.</p></li> </ul> <p>Should I go for secondary or nested loops? I've read and re-read the codex and other tutorials but still can't wrap my head around it.</p> <p>Many thanks!</p>
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