get 1 post only

cam_oai
(@cam_oai)

18 years, 2 months ago

hey guys,
just have some prob, how do i query only 1 post? i tried:

<?php $posts = get_posts( “category=5&post=30” ); ?>
<?php if( $posts ) : ?>
<?php foreach( $posts as $post ) : setup_postdata( $post ); ?>
<?php the_content(); ?>

Last updated: <?php the_time(‘M j, Y’) ?> <?php edit_post_link(‘Edit’); ?>
<?php endforeach; ?>
<?php endif; ?>

i think this
<?php $posts = get_posts( “category=5&post=30” ); ?> is wrong. it doesn’t pull 1 post but retreive all posts in cat5. how can i limit it to cat5 but get postid 89 ?

tnx

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spud_8350
(@spud_8350)

18 years, 2 months ago

under options in wp-admin, go to reading options. you can change the # of posts it shows.

if this is what you are asking

Thread Starter cam_oai
(@cam_oai)

18 years, 2 months ago

i have made a own design and like to use the loop to get the post i want.

i don’t think your suggestion works in my case (check my website and you know why)

/ http://www.vietzon.com

Jonathan Landrum
(@jonlandrum)

18 years, 2 months ago

Well, if you’re looking to only have one post on the front page, and have, say, ten on your search results then you can do that with a home.php file. By default, WP searches for a hierarchial list of files (See Codex topic: http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Hierarchy Template Hierarchy). Basically, the way you do it is to make a home.php file (if your theme doesn’t already have one), and change this line:

<?php get_header(); ?>

to this:

<?php get_header(); query_posts('posts_per_page=1'); ?>

That will make only one post display on the home page, but as many as you have selected in your options on every other page.

~Jonathan

moshu
(@moshu)

18 years, 2 months ago

cam_oai,
you mean you want one certain post (=always the same?) to be shown somewhere on your main page?
If yes, use this plugin:
http://guff.szub.net/2005/01/27/get-a-post/

Thread Starter cam_oai
(@cam_oai)

18 years, 2 months ago

no, not 1page in front page. i am looking for att code that pull out the specific post from database by using ID.

<?php query_posts(‘postID=40’) ?> then it will get the post 40 (that code is not correct)

i should be simple right? i know i can get 5latest post in specific cat, so why can i get 1 post by ID?

*edit* yes Moshu, exactly what i ment. can i apply it without plugin?

moshu
(@moshu)

18 years, 2 months ago

That’s exactly what that plugin does. Read before reposting 😉

the_rob
(@the_rob)

18 years, 2 months ago

Along similar lines, I’m looking for the code that calls the most recent post w/comments to a specific page. I do not want a static post, but just the most recent to appear with comments. Any suggestions?

Thread Starter cam_oai
(@cam_oai)

18 years, 2 months ago

thankx Moshu :), i will try it then.

Rob, have you ever thought about the space? i mean the post and the comments will take a lot of space in website right?

the_rob
(@the_rob)

18 years, 2 months ago

Yeah. Actually I want to call the most recent post to a single page and not the index.php. Essentially, each time I click ‘recent post’ link (theoretically) it will show the post and comments. there would only be one post on that specific page

Kafkaesqui
(@kafkaesqui)

18 years, 1 month ago

“I’m looking for the code that calls the most recent post w/comments to a specific page.“

I’ve received several requests to have Get-a-Post default to the latest post. And now it does (that is the just released version R1.2 of the plugin does).

http://guff.szub.net/2005/01/27/get-a-post/#update-20060303

To display comments using it, try adding this to the template before calling comments_template() in it:

<?php $wp_query->is_single = true; ?>

That is, if this is not just a Page template, in which case it should work without the above $wp_query code.