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1. neilcreek
   Member
   Posted 7 months ago #

   I would like to display a single post on the front page, but more ont all other pages, such as categories,search results and archives. When I select "show at most" x posts in the settings, this applies to all pages.

   Any suggestions?

   Thanks for the help!

2. MichaelH
   Moderator
   Posted 7 months ago #

   Could use the showposts=1 parameter with the Template Tag, query_posts.

3. neilcreek
   Member
   Posted 7 months ago #

   Beautiful! That did just the trick, thank you!

4. tinuviel
   Member
   Posted 1 week ago #

   I'm at a loss as to how to implement this on my own site. I've entered:

   <?php
      if (is_home()) {
         query_posts("showposts=1");
      }
   ?>

   before these lines:

   <?php if (have_posts()) : ?>
   <?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>

   And the result is that it restricts the first page of my site to the last entry - which is good. But when I click on the "Older Entries" link, all I get is the same single post again, over and over. Nothing else appears.

   If I place that If statement like so:
   

   <?php if (have_posts()) : ?>
   <?php
      if (is_home()) {
         query_posts("showposts=1");
      }
   ?>
   <?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>

   the result is the same.

   What am I doing wrong? I haven't set up a home.php file, as that also did not work. This is going straight into my Main Index Template.

   Thanks for your assistance.

5. tinuviel
   Member
   Posted 1 week ago #

   Okay, I've changed my query to

   <?php
   if (is_home()) {
   $paged = (get_query_var('paged')) ? get_query_var('paged') : 1;
   query_posts("&posts_per_page=1&paged=$paged");
   }
   ?>
   <?php if (have_posts()) : ?>

   But it's only showing one page on every page now, though the post IS changing. I only want it to show one post on the home page (I assmed that's what the "is_home" would take care of - but it's not???).

   Thanks again for any clarification.

6. tinuviel
   Member
   Posted 1 week ago #

   No suggestions?

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