What code would I use if I want posts to be excerpts on multi-post-pages but stickies (or the latest post) to be displayed as a full post on top?

I reckon I would have to put it right before the loop in index.php, kind of like this:

<div id="content" class="cf col9">

	if is_sticky() the_content( 'full-post' )

	<?php bfa_loop( 'postformat' ); ?>
		
	<?php bfa_content_nav( 'multinav2' ); ?>
		
</div>

where 'full-post' might have to be a separate sub template, differing from 'postformat'. Is that true? (I'm afraid it's terribly wrong...)

Also, how would I go about having all posts displayed as an excerpt except for the latest one, that being displayed in full (an multi-post-pages)?

Just off the top of my head, this is what I might do.

If you understand how the virtual file system works, when the loop formats a post for index.php, it will by default pick postformat.php. If the post happens to be of a special format type (Video, Gallery, etc), it will first look to see if you have a corresponding subtemplate defined (postformat-video.php, postformat-gallery.php, etc). If you have created one, it will use that, otherwise it will use the default postformat.php.

So I would assign all of your stickies to the same post format (look at the Format section in your post editor). Make them all Status, for example. Then I would create a virtual subtemplate called postformat-status.php by copying the postformat.php subtemplate (go to Appearances > Montezuma Options > Subtemplates). In your new postformat-status.php virtual file, change bfa_excerpt to the_content, and that should display the entire content for those posts that you have marked as Status.

Now, did you say you wanted all of the stickies to appear as the first posts, or will Wordpress automatically do that if you've checked off "Stick this post to the front page"?

Hey CrouchingBruin -

that makes a lot of sense, thank you very much.

Now, did you say you wanted all of the stickies to appear as the first posts, or will Wordpress automatically do that if you've checked off "Stick this post to the front page"?

As far as I know, it (Wordpress) wil do that automatically.

That leaves just one question: How to display the 1 latest post as a full post? Atahualpa offers precisely that option.

I seem to remember to have once read about a counter in the loop that allows you to decide how many posts Wordpress should display as full posts (or whatever) but I don't know how to handle that with the bfa_loop. Is it even an option with bfa_loop or would I have to implement a counter into the template it is calling, which is postformat.php?

Edit: I would use this http://wordpress.org/support/topic/f...st-as-excerpts but don't know how to best combine it with bfa_loop

You could use the TPG Get Posts plugin to place the latest full post at the top of a page using a shortcode and then under that use the shortcode with the offset option to put the excerpts of the following. Then between the two shortcodes put the code for the ad.

I seem to remember to have once read about a counter in the loop that allows you to decide how many posts Wordpress should display as full posts (or whatever) but I don't know how to handle that with the bfa_loop. Is it even an option with bfa_loop or would I have to implement a counter into the template it is calling, which is postformat.php?

The problem is that the virtual PHP pages (Main Templates & Sub Templates) only allow a limited set of PHP function calls & code. I'm not sure if what you want to do can be accomplished through the virtual templates. You might have to create a physical template, and unfortunately, my knowledge of the WP or BFA functions isn't that great, so I can't offer any suggestions along those lines.

If I had to do it for myself, I'd kludge up something using JavaScript, since that's what I know. I'd set postformat.php to display both the excerpt and the entire post content in their own separate DIVs, and insert some CSS to hide the content DIV so they won't show up by default.

Once the document is loaded (ready), I'd save the sticky posts to an object and delete them temporarily from the document. Then select the first of the remaining posts (which should be the latest), and remove the excerpt DIV and unhide the content DIV. Finally, reinsert the stickies back at the beginning. As I said, not very elegant, kind of kludgy, and it will increase the load time slightly depending upon how how big the posts are, since both the excerpt and the entire post content are loaded. Someone else could probably come up with a much better PHP solution using a template.

You can do this by
1) instaling the plugin 'exec php'
2) adding a dynamic sidebar to the header.php
3) replacing the 'bfa_excerpt()' line in 'postformat.php' with another dynamic sidebar
4) add a text widget to both new widget areas
5) add a global counter to the header widget and set it to zero
6) in the other widget, based on the counter call the_content() or the_excerpt()