How to enumerate a list of posts?

3 comments

1. I am not sure what your loop looks like from which you are adding the articles to your list. All you need do is to create a variable to hold your counter somewhere before the while statement in your loop. This could be something like

   <?php $counter = 0; ?>

   Note I am setting the counter to 0. Within the while statement you now enumerate this variable, this will keep on adding one to the counter for every time through the loop.

   <?php $counter++ ;?>

   Inside your loop you now use the variable to show the numbers you are interested in. This will give you a one on the first loop, two on the second etc.

   Hope this helps.

   Log in to Reply

2. I adapted my loop to be like the one proposed by RXN, so it is like this:

   <ul>
   <?php
   global $post;
   $args = array( 'category' => 3, 'offset'=> 1, 'numberposts' => -1, 'order' => asc, 'exclude' => '4307,4321');
   $myposts = get_posts( $args );
   foreach( $myposts as $post ) :  setup_postdata($post); ?>
   <div>
       <li class="paginaIndex-temario"><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></li></div>
   <?php endforeach; ?>
   </ul>
   

   and I introduced a list-style-type:decimal; in the stylesheed. Nevertheless I got a consecutive list of numbers for each post title everywhere but on Explorer (this give me a list of 1.,1.,1.,etc.) so I’m, at best, half way to success.

   Any thoughts? I would like to try whith the <?php $counter = 0; ?> but I really don’t know what to do with it.

   Thanks

   Log in to Reply

3. Here is what I found in the Codex. Simply replace the category number with the one you are using. I modified it with the counter you requested.

   <ul>
   <?php
   global $post;
   $args = array('category' => 6, 'offset' => 1, 'numberposts' => -1, 'order' => asc, 'exclude' => '4307,4321');
   $myposts = get_posts($args);
   $counter = 0;
   foreach ($myposts as $post) :  setup_postdata($post);
   ?>
       <div>
           <li class="paginaIndex-temario">Lesson # <?php echo $counter++;?> <a
                   href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></li>
       </div>
   <?php endforeach; ?>
   </ul>
   

   HTH

   Log in to Reply