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1. airdrawndagger
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   At the WordPress site for one of the magazines my company publishes I have a menu alternative for "latest issue". This is now just a page in wordpress, that the editor updates manually with each issue. I'd like for the new issue to be published to this page via a post in a certain category. What's an easy way to accomplish this? Thanks for any help!

2. airdrawndagger
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Here's the page in question: http://www.framsidan.net/senaste-numret/
   To somehow have that static url display the latest post from a category...

3. alchymyth
   The Sweeper
   Posted 2 years ago #

   if you have not already, read the information of the codex:

   http://codex.wordpress.org/Pages
   http://codex.wordpress.org/Pages#Page_Templates

   make a page template, by following the instructions, (as a start, you could use the code from page.php or single.php, and then customize it to your needs)

   and then add a query for your certain category before of the loop.

   http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/query_posts#Category_Parameters

   and then in admin/ pages/ edit/ edit the page ( used to show the "latest issue") and the choose your new page template under 'attributes' 'template' from the drop-down list.

4. airdrawndagger
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Thank you! Very helpful. I'll try this.

5. airdrawndagger
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   I think I get it, but unfortunately I suck at PHP. Maybe you could help out with what I need to change here to make this code display the latest post from a category. This is the code from single.php in arras-theme which I use:

   <div id="content" class="section">
   <?php arras_above_content() ?>
   
   <?php
   if ( arras_get_option('single_meta_pos') == 'bottom' ) add_filter('arras_postfooter', 'arras_postmeta');
   else add_filter('arras_postheader', 'arras_postmeta');
   ?>
   
   <?php if (have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
   	<?php arras_above_post() ?>
   	<div id="post-<?php the_ID() ?>" <?php arras_single_post_class() ?>>
   
           <?php arras_postheader() ?>
   
           <div class="entry-content">
   		<?php the_content( __('<p>Read the rest of this entry &raquo;</p>', 'arras') ); ?>
           <?php wp_link_pages(array('before' => __('<p><strong>Pages:</strong> ', 'arras'),
   			'after' => '</p>', 'next_or_number' => 'number')); ?>
   		</div>
   
           <!-- <?php trackback_rdf() ?> -->
   		<?php arras_postfooter() ?>
       </div>
   
   	<?php arras_below_post() ?>
   	<a name="comments"></a>
       <?php comments_template('', true); ?>
   	<?php arras_below_comments() ?>
   
   <?php endwhile; else: ?>
   
   <?php arras_post_notfound() ?>
   <?php endif; ?>
   <?php arras_below_content() ?>
   </div><!-- #content -->

6. airdrawndagger
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   So far I added:

   <?php query_posts('category_name=tidningen&posts_per_page=1');

   And it does what I want, however, it doesn't display the comments below the post!

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