I'm trying to get my content set up such that the latest post always shows the full content, and the later ones only show excerpts. I've updated postformat.php with a loop as follows:

...
<div class="post-bodycopy cf">

<div class="post-date">
<p class="post-month"><?php the_time( 'M' ); ?></p>
<p class="post-day"><?php the_time( 'j' ); ?></p>
<p class="post-year"><?php the_time( 'Y' ); ?></p>
</div>

<?php if (have_posts()) : $count = 0;
while (have_posts());
$count++;

if ($count == 1) : the_content();

else : the_excerpt();

endif;
endwhile;
endif;
?>

</div>

...

The problem here is that:
1. It's echo'ing some of the code to be rendered in the browser (count++, count ==)
2. It doesn't seem to work as expected - it renders the content in 3 sections for each post with multiple duplicate sharing buttons.

It's the standard mullet loop taken from this site:
http://perishablepress.com/easily-ad...oop-templates/

I'm kind of at a dead-end with it - I've tried a bunch of different formatting things, like having each line of code individually start with <?php and end with ?>, but that functioned 100% the same as the above.

Is there someplace else I should be writing this code, or something with Montezuma that would prevent it from working?

I'm new to Wordpress/PHP - so apologies if this is a basic error. Thanks in advance for any help.

If you want to use more php than the limited allowed code, you need one or more plugins.

Here's what worked for me.

Thanks Jerry. But that option won't work in the templates or sub-templates, will it? Even with the insert_php plugin activated, I'm still seeing my actual code being rendered on the page vs. the correct post content - it's actually worse because instead of just ignoring most of the PHP code when rendering, it's now rendering it all and skipping the content entirely.

Has anyone else hacked Montezuma to do this before that can share their methods?

1) edit postformat.php and replace

<?php bfa_excerpt( 55, ' ...' ); ?>

with

<?php dynamic_sidebar( 'IN LOOP' ); ?>

2) install the plugin 'exec php' and activate it
3) view the front page
4) go to dashboard->appearances->widgets
5) add a text widget to the 'IN LOOP' widget area
6) add the following to the text widget

<?php
global $wp_query;
if ($wp_query->current_post == 0) 
    the_content();
else
    bfa_excerpt( 55, ' ...' ); 
?>

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Thanks juggledad - that worked like a charm with one exception:

If you look at my site now (mobilechad.com), it looks like some line breaks are added such that the first paragraph isn't wrapping next to the date anymore - it's showing up underneath it. I mucked around with Firebug a little bit, but I couldn't seem to figure out what to change to get it to appear the way it used to.

Also, I donated (directly to you) - I do appreciate the time you take to answer these.
--mobilechad

add the following to the end of MTO->CSS Files->clearfix.css

.post-bodycopy aside.cf:before,
.post-bodycopy aside.cf:after {clear: none;}