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1. guitarcrazy087
   Member
   Posted 7 months ago #

   Okay so here's my problem. I have a side bar on the left in my header.php file. In this side bar I would like to display the title and date of my most recent post, no matter what is being displayed in the body of the site. i.e. a "page", a post from years ago, even the most recent post itself.

   I am new to editing the PHP of Wordpress and all my attempts at this have failed. I have searched through the codex and found nothing that has worked so far.

   Any help is appreciated!

   Thanks!

   Joe

2. samboll
   moderator
   Posted 7 months ago #

   http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/recent-posts/

   http://www.vincentprat.info/dev/wordpress-plugins/enhanced-recent-posts/download/

3. guitarcrazy087
   Member
   Posted 7 months ago #

   Okay, I found a way to do it. I did this:

   $my_query = new WP_Query('showposts=1');
   while ($my_query->have_posts()) : $my_query->the_post();
   	$do_not_duplicate = $post->ID;
   
   $title = "the_title()";
   
   echo $title;
   
   endwhile;
   wp_reset_query();

   That's what I used for the first part. The other part still works.

   Thanks for the suggestion.

   I have one other question though: how do I capture the output of the_title() in a variable without it printing onto the page?

   Thanks!

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