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I’d like to display 5 posts that are written prior to the blog post that is currently being viewed. Can I use stop_before to achieve this? I tried to following code, but it didn’t work:

{exp:channel:entries channel="blog" dynamic="off" stop_before="{entry_date format="%Y-%m-%d %H:%i"}" orderby="date" sort="desc" limit="5"}
{title}
{/exp:channel:entries}

This might have something to do with the parsing order of EE code? Hard coding the entry_date seems to work, but it really defeats the purpose in this case.

Could you limit=“6” then check {if count == 1} do nothing, otherwise, build the entry?

According to le docs, you need to enable PHP to do this dynamically:

http://ellislab.com/expressionengine/user-guide/modules/channel/parameters.html#par_stop_before

So I need PHP to get the entry date of the entry that is being viewed at the moment, with EE it’d be really easy just to use:

{exp:channel:entries channel="blog" url_title="entry-currently-being-viewed" limit="1"}{entry_date format="%Y-%m-%d %H:%i"}{/exp:channel:entries}

Any help?

What I’d do is to create an embed with the 5 posts you need, and pass entry_date from the viewed entry into the embed. Then if you need turn PHP on in the embed and convert the date, so be it - it’d work.

{exp:channel:entries channel="blog" url_title="entry-currently-being-viewed" limit="1"}
{embed="template/posts" date="{entry_date format="%Y-%m-%d %H:%i"}"}
{/exp:channel:entries}

Thanks Andy, that worked fine!