Getting excerpt in loop within loop – Twenty sixteen theme Wordpress - php

Question

Hello fellow wordpress expirienced users.
I’m having a struggle while doing a latest 3 posts excerpt with thumbnail in my homepage in Wordpress TwentySixteen Theme.
I tried various possibilities but i cant get it running.
The goal is to look the posts like this:
http://caenthemes.cekuj.net/?s=p%C5%99%C3%ADsp%C4%9Bvek
My thought is to use an already made template for the seach page.
But than it the text of the excerpt is nowhere:
http://caenthemes.cekuj.net/
The fact that its not styled leave aside please.
The code of the main page:
<?php
/**
* The template for displaying main-page without title.
* #package WordPress
* #subpackage Twenty_Sixteen
* #since Twenty Sixteen 1.0
*/
?>
<section id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>" <?php post_class(); ?>>
<!--<header class="entry-header">
<?php the_title('<h1 class="entry-title">', '</h1>'); ?>
</header><!-- .entry-header -->
<div class="wp-page-content">
<?php
the_content();
wp_link_pages(array(
'before' => '<div class="page-links"><span class="page-links-title">' . __('Pages:', 'twentysixteen') . '</span>',
'after' => '</div>',
'link_before' => '<span>',
'link_after' => '</span>',
'pagelink' => '<span class="screen-reader-text">' . __('Page', 'twentysixteen') . ' </span>%',
'separator' => '<span class="screen-reader-text">, </span>',
));
?>
</div><!-- .entry-content -->
</section>
<section>
<header class="entry-header">
<h2>
<?php
if (get_locale() == 'cs_CZ') {
echo "Nejnovější příspěvky";
} else {
echo "Latest posts";
}
?>
</h2>
</header><!-- .entry-header -->
<?php
$args = array(
'posts_per_page' => 3,
'offset' => 0,
'category' => '',
'category_name' => '',
'orderby' => 'date',
'order' => 'DESC',
'include' => '',
'exclude' => '',
'meta_key' => '',
'meta_value' => '',
'post_type' => 'post',
'post_mime_type' => '',
'post_parent' => '',
'author' => '',
'author_name' => '',
'post_status' => 'publish',
'suppress_filters' => true
);
$myposts = get_posts($args);
foreach ($myposts as $post) : setup_postdata($post);
get_template_part('template-parts/content', 'search');
endforeach;
wp_reset_postdata();
?>
</section><!-- #wp-page-content-## -->
I’m 80% sure that i’m not handling right the inner loop within the main loop of twenty sixteen. Just to cover all posibilities i was also trying to do it not via get template but still i only get the posts categories titles and thumbnails but not the excerpt.
Can you help me with this ?
The whole page is based on twenty sixteen theme with my modifications.
Thank you very much,
Caen Ragestorm

Answer 1

For getting post details such as title,content and featured image you can use this code :
$latestPost = new WP_Query( array( 'post_type' => 'posts', 'posts_per_page' =>-1,'order' => 'ASC') );
while ( $latestPost->have_posts() ) : $latestPost->the_post();
$sTitle = the_title();
$sContent = the_content();
$feat_image_latestPost = wp_get_attachment_url( get_post_thumbnail_id($post->ID) );
endwhile;
Re write CSS according to your requirement.

Answer 2

Thanks to SJP i made it work. So the full code working for me is here, hope anyone else will find it usefull:
<section id="latest-posts">
<header class="entry-header">
<h2>
<?php
if (get_locale() == 'cs_CZ') {
echo "Nejnovější příspěvky";
} else {
echo "Latest posts";
}
?>
</h2>
</header><!-- .entry-header -->
<div class="entry-content">
<?php
$args = array(
'posts_per_page' => 3,
'orderby' => 'date',
'order' => 'DESC',
'post_type' => 'post',
'post_status' => 'publish',
'suppress_filters' => true
);
$latestPost = new WP_Query($args);
while ($latestPost->have_posts()) : $latestPost->the_post();
?>
<article id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>" <?php post_class(); ?>>
<header class="entry-header">
<?php the_title(sprintf('<h2 class="entry-title">', esc_url(get_permalink())), '</h2>'); ?>
</header><!-- .entry-header -->
<div class="post-summary">
<a class="post-thumbnail" href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>" aria-hidden="true">
<?php the_post_thumbnail('post-thumbnail', array('alt' => the_title_attribute('echo=0'))); ?>
</a>
<div class="entry-summary">
<?php the_excerpt(); ?>
</div>
</div>
<?php if ('post' === get_post_type()) : ?>
<footer class="entry-footer">
<?php twentysixteen_entry_meta(); ?>
<?php
edit_post_link(
sprintf(
/* translators: %s: Name of current post */
__('Edit<span class="screen-reader-text"> "%s"</span>', 'twentysixteen'), get_the_title()
), '<span class="edit-link">', '</span>'
);
?>
</footer><!-- .entry-footer -->
<?php else : ?>
<?php
edit_post_link(
sprintf(
/* translators: %s: Name of current post */
__('Edit<span class="screen-reader-text"> "%s"</span>', 'twentysixteen'), get_the_title()
), '<footer class="entry-footer"><span class="edit-link">', '</span></footer><!-- .entry-footer -->'
);
?>
<?php endif; ?>
</article>
<?php
endwhile;
wp_reset_postdata();
?>
</div>
</section>
Nice day to you all.
Caen Ragestorm
www.CaenRagestorm.cz