Can I show 1 ‘recent-post’ on another page?

  • Mark Bloomfield

    (@yellowllama)


    18 years, 11 months ago

    Hey.

    I have my blog running on a different page than my index page. I would like to have the most recent entry pulled into a specific place on my index page… almost like an ‘include’ but just of the recent entry. so as a new entry gets posted, it’ll change it on the index page too…

    I have absolutely jack php knowledge so some assistance would be greatly appreciated.

    I would like the recent entry to be displayed in the “blah blah” box seen here: http://www.yellow-llama.com/temp/ (temp directory for new site)
    and my blog is here: http://www.yellow-llama.com/blog/

    I appreciate any help i can get. thanks…

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  • Kafkaesqui

    (@kafkaesqui)

    18 years, 11 months ago

    Follow through on the info from this link (and what it also links to):

    http://wordpress.org/support/topic/33081#post-187146

    Then insert The Loop where you want the post content to appear, but just before your loop code begins, add this:

    <?php query_posts('showposts=1'); ?>

    Thread Starter Mark Bloomfield

    (@yellowllama)

    18 years, 11 months ago

    thanks Kafkaesqui for your reply.

    the catch is, in my case, that i’m running my blog in a separate directory to the page that i want to bring the excerpt to:
    ie:

    i want the excerpt here under ‘blah blah’
    and it must pull the recent entry from my blog here (which is yet to be customized like the rest of my site)

    i wonder if you could guide me thru this process?

    excuse my ignorance! 🙂

    Michael Bishop

    (@miklb)

    18 years, 11 months ago

    Just thinking out loud, but you can make a static pages with WP, could you not simply modify a template to be similar to the one in your /temp , then do something like this. You could do the same with your other pages. That way, everything is in the same directory

    othermichael

    (@othermichael)

    18 years, 7 months ago

    Just a follow-up: by following these directions, you can include a post in a page held in an external directory. Just make sure that your [Path_to_WordPress] is accurate in the require statement.

    witchy

    (@witchy)

    17 years, 3 months ago

    yellowllama, this is exactly what I want to do. What did you finally do to resolve this issue? I’ve been to your site (very nice) and it looks like you might have made a different decision about the whole idea?

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