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1. showmii
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Hi all, the title says it all...

   i have many categories, and many of the categories go to a single post... i'm essentially using the categories as a convenient way to build an index/directory.

   Is there a way to instruct the database to return a specific post, instead of a category, if the category clicked only has the one post?

   I"m finding that it's a little inconsistent the way it is, and lots of people who are linking to me are linking to a category archive instead of directly to the post...

   thanks in advance!
   -CHris

2. showmii
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   btw my site is http://www.showmii.com

3. Sivar
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   When I clicked your link -> Error establishing a database connection

4. moshu
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   1. Your blog has a DB problem.
   2. What you are asking that is inconsistent :) - category archives behave as expected: display a list of posts in that category.
   (whether it displays full text or only excerpts, that's a choice in the theme's template files)

5. showmii
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   moshu,

   yeah my host is having DB problems today...

   thanks for the reply... I'm using the Sunwear theme. I was wondering if perhaps there's a way to hack at the categories a bit and instruct them to a)look to see how many posts are in the category, and b) if there is only 1 post in the category, to call that specific post?

6. showmii
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   or failing this could you suggest a good alternative?

7. Sivar
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   An alternative would be to let your category template display posts (resp. your one post) like single.php does by using the_content() and without more-tags. That's btw, what moshu suggested when he (she? *g*) was talking about full text or only excerpts.

   Of course, you wouldn't need a category.php to do that, but I personally like it better when index.php isn't too messy ;).

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