I’d like to know this too. So far, I’ve found workarounds that will recreate the latest post page “look” on the homepage (it, with comments and all), but not the actual page with the permalink in the address bar.
Evandiaz, I found this, which will recreate the single post page experience on the home page:
http://www.scriptygoddess.com/archives/2007/04/28/wordpress-make-home-page-show-latest-post-in-the-single-post-format/
But like I said, is there any way to actually _redirect_ to the latest post, the actual permalink page?
you can do that with a redirect, but you would have to change the redirect every time you posted to get what you want. Not very efficient.
c & p this file
http://codex.wordpress.org/User:MichaelH/Redirectify
save as redirectify.php
upload it to your plugins folder
activate it
go to post or page editor
below post – in custom field area – put
redirect
in value field – input your home url
save post
now any calls to home url will redirect to that post
Thanks, does that mean that you would also need to delete that home url value from the _previous_ post?
You’re right, though, it’s not very efficient, though I don’t post too often, so it’ll do the job. To do it right would probably require a function that would check on the database for the latest post. I have something like this running on a Nucleus blog that I’m thinking of porting to WP. Someone over there posted some code that had this effect and I seem to recall that it actually went to check to see what the latest post was.
Well, I asked the same question in the comments of that post over at Scriptygoddess.com I mentioned earlier, and the site owner offered up some code. Replace the contents of your main index file with this, and it should work (it did for me!):
<?php
require('./wp-blog-header.php');
if (have_posts()) : the_post();
header("location: ".get_permalink());
exit;
endif;
?>
