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1. koko.pelli
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   Hi everyone,

   I have set up a site with multiple pages and the blog section is set to a specific internal page as a news section.

   What I am trying to do is have a snippet of the first news blog post appearing on the sidebar in every page on the site except the internal blog page.

   I think I need some kind of if/else statement but not sure of the tags I need to use:

   Have tried:

   
<?php if (is_blog()) { ?>
<p>Test</p>
<?php } else { ?>
<?php require('wp-blog-header.php');
query_posts('showposts=1');
while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
<h2><?php the_title(); ?></h2>
<?php the_excerpt('…'); ?>
<?php endwhile; ?>
<?php } ?>


   But no joy with this.

   Can anyone help?

2. stvwlf
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   what is the full URL of the page your blog is displaying on?

3. koko.pelli
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   It's local at the moment, but the URL is:

   http://localserver/news-events/

4. stvwlf
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   this will probably work

   <?php if (is_page('news-events')) { ?>
     <p>Test</p>
   <?php } else {
     $newsposts = new WP_Query();
     $newsposts->query('showposts=1');
     while ($newsposts->have_posts()) : $newsposts->the_post(); ?>
       <h2><?php the_title(); ?></h2>
       <?php the_excerpt();
     endwhile;
   } ?>

   if you are doing this within WordPress you do not need
   <?php require('wp-blog-header.php');
   that is already loaded

5. koko.pelli
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   Thank you - tried it but no joy :(

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