Wordpress

Could anyone shed some light on how to make a wordpress 'featured' post?
So that the newest post on the front page has say, a special background and border or something different than the rest.

Thanks

Query the posts with two seperate loops.. The first to show one post, and the second loop queires all the rest.

For the second loop use get_posts()

Chris, would you also know how to display a recent list of posts? I've always wondered how..

(e.g. http://www.thebigchris.com/)

I would assume he is just quering the remaining posts with a second loop, but instead of the_post using the excerpt. Should look something like:

I'd have to have a theme infront of me to try it on to be sure though.

@edder

Download this theme and check out the source code: http://warpspire.com/hemingway

It has all the code you need to show the most recent post, archives, and much more.

I believe that in /wp-content/themes/[insert-theme-name-here]/index.php you replace

<div class="post" id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>">

with

<div class="post<?php if(!is_single() && $post==$posts[0]) echo ' firstpost';?>" id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>">

Add a .firstpost class to your stylesheet and style the first post as you wish. I picked this up on the wordpress.org support forums, but the link to the specific thread escapes me at the moment. Here's a crude example: http://retromonkey.org/blog/.