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1. robinrowell88
   Member
   Posted 1 week ago #

   Thanks in advance to your responses.

   In WP 2.5 I'm trying to build something for a client where I want him to be able to edit most parts of the content via the manage > edit > pages and posts. Most pages will have a primary content column, then another column with tertiary information. I want him to be able to edit both parts of the content. I am also using custom permalinks with it set so that the page title becomes the URL %posttitle%(blahblah.com/my-page-title)

   So I have created a file called detail_page_a.php and at the top is:
   

   <?php
   /*
   Template Name: detail_page_a
   */
   ?>

   and that works fine and shows up in the admin as a template choice. Now I want a specific post to show up in the left column. This is where the hang-up starts. For the life of me, poking around the WP docs I can't find the solution. I tried some plugin called get-a-post but that didnt work.

   Any clues?

2. greenshady
   Member
   Posted 1 week ago #

   Retrieve a particular posts (where 5 is the post ID):

   query_posts('p=5');

   http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/query_posts

3. robinrowell88
   Member
   Posted 1 week ago #

   Thanks Greenshady. When I use

   <?php // retrieve one post with an ID of 1
   query_posts('p=1'); ?>
   <?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
   <h4><?php the_title(); ?></h4>
   <?php the_content(); ?>
   <?php endwhile;?>

   it won't work. I have 3 posts, and the only one it seems to work with is if I make p=0, 1 and 2 don't. All 3 are set to uncategorized.

   ???

4. greenshady
   Member
   Posted 1 week ago #

   You should be more specific about "won't work." That means absolutely nothing when talking about code.

   This works perfectly fine:

   <?php /*
   Template Name: Query Single Post
   */
   get_header(); ?>
   	<?php query_posts('p=40'); ?>
   	<?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
   		<h4><?php the_title(); ?></h4>
   		<?php the_content(); ?>
   	<?php endwhile;?>
   <?php get_footer(); ?>

   I found a post. The one I picked had an ID of 40. So, I set p=40. On the page I chose to use this on, I selected the "Query Single Post" post template. Clicked save and refreshed my page.

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