http://wordpress.org/support/ WordPress › Support Topic: summary of recent posts in single post template en Thu, 26 Nov 2009 13:41:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/support/topic/245668#post-992500 Fri, 20 Feb 2009 13:22:29 +0000 MichaelH 992500@http://wordpress.org/support/ <p>Or a plugin such as <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/recent-posts-plugin/" rel="nofollow">http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/recent-posts-plugin/</a></p> <p>or this:<br /> <a href="http://wordpress.org/support/topic/245235" rel="nofollow">http://wordpress.org/support/topic/245235</a> </p> http://wordpress.org/support/topic/245668#post-992214 Fri, 20 Feb 2009 04:44:58 +0000 t31os 992214@http://wordpress.org/support/ <p>Or what Michael suggested...</p> <p>Depends what's easiest i guess... ;) </p> http://wordpress.org/support/topic/245668#post-992192 Fri, 20 Feb 2009 04:33:07 +0000 MichaelH 992192@http://wordpress.org/support/ <p>Or use a new WP Query<br /> <a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/04/13/define-your-own-wordpress-loop-using-wp_query/" rel="nofollow">http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/04/13/define-your-own-wordpress-loop-using-wp_query/</a></p> <p>or a get_posts loop.<br /> <a href="http://www.daobydesign.com/blog/2007/07/modifying-wordpress-front-page/" rel="nofollow">http://www.daobydesign.com/blog/2007/07/modifying-wordpress-front-page/</a> </p> http://wordpress.org/support/topic/245668#post-992182 Fri, 20 Feb 2009 04:17:16 +0000 t31os 992182@http://wordpress.org/support/ <p>Just to be clear, this is your single post theme file (single.php) and above the post listed you want to show a summary of recent posts from the same category?</p> <p>If that's the case, you'd better doing this in your index or header file, you need to check when viewing a singular page and include the content when true....</p> <p>This would remove the issue you're having by including query_posts in single.php....</p> <p>I think.. :-s </p> http://wordpress.org/support/topic/245668#post-992172 Fri, 20 Feb 2009 04:03:29 +0000 danaherlihey 992172@http://wordpress.org/support/ <p>Hi,</p> <p>I'm trying to include a summary of recent posts from a specific category to appear in a single post template.</p> <p>So far I have:<br /> <pre><code>&lt;h1&gt;Latest News&lt;/h1&gt; &lt;?php query_posts(&#39;category_name=news&#38;showposts=4&#39;); while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?&gt; &lt;a class=&quot;title&quot; href=&quot;&lt;?php the_permalink() ?&gt;&quot; rel=&quot;bookmark&quot; title=&quot;Read the feature article: &lt;?php the_title(); ?&gt;&quot;&gt;&lt;?php the_title(); ?&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;?php global $more; $more = false; ?&gt; &lt;span class=&quot;readmore_g&quot;&gt;&lt;?php the_content(&#39;&lt;br /&gt;Read More&#39;); ?&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;?php $more = true; ?&gt; &lt;?php endwhile; ?&gt;</code></pre> <p>This is followed by the loop for the regular single post. The problem is that it shows 4 full posts in the single view instead of one (obviously because of the showpost)</p> <p>any suggestions? </p>