Wordpress Twenty Eleven PhP - forcing php code to skip first post on homepage?

Question

I have set up my Wordpress to add the wordpress Featured Image thumbnails to all posts on the homepage.

How do I make the code skip adding [wordpress Featured Image thumbnails][3] to the first post [the_content() ~ in the code below] and only add them to [wordpress Featured Image thumbnails][4] the other posts [the_excerpt() ~ in the code below]?

Code I put in content.php to make it put [wordpress Featured Image thumbnails][5] on homepage. Link to pastebin code Here

    <?php if ( is_search() | is_home() ) : // Edit this to show excerpts in other areas of the theme?>
    <div class="entry-summary">
    <!-- This adds the post thumbnail/featured image -->
        <div class="excerpt-thumb"><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>" title="<?php printf( esc_attr__( 'Permalink to %s', 'twentyeleven' ), the_title_attribute( 'echo=0' ) ); ?>" rel="bookmark">
    <?php the_post_thumbnail('excerpt-thumbnail', 'class=alignleft'); ?></a></div>
                      <?php  if($wp_query->current_post == 0 && !is_paged()) { the_content(); } else { the_excerpt(); }     ?>                     


            </div><!-- .entry-summary -->
            <?php else : ?>
            <div class="entry-content">
                    <?php the_content( __( 'Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span>', 'twentyeleven' ) ); ?>
                    <?php wp_link_pages( array( 'before' => '<div class="page-link"><span>' . __( 'Pages:', 'twentyeleven' ) . '</span>', 'after' => '</div>' ) ); ?>
            </div><!-- .entry-content -->
            <?php endif; ?>

Answer 1

You've practically got the solution in the code ;)

Notice that the entire content of the first post is visilbe, but for the rest only the excerpt displays. That's from this (after tidying):

<?php 
if( $wp_query->current_post == 0 && !is_paged() ) { 
    the_content(); 
} else { 
    the_excerpt(); 
}
?>

So let's just apply that logic to the thumbnail part:

<?php if( $wp_query->current_post != 0 || !is_paged() ) { ?>

     <div class="excerpt-thumb">
          <a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>" title="<?php printf( esc_attr__( 'Permalink to %s', 'twentyeleven' ), the_title_attribute( 'echo=0' ) ); ?>" rel="bookmark">
               <?php the_post_thumbnail('excerpt-thumbnail', 'class=alignleft'); ?>
          </a>
     </div>

<?php } ?>