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1. rebeccacotu
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   I've been searching and searching, and can't find the answer.

   In my theme, I want to always display just one post, with comments. So for the "previous" and "next" links, I want to display the titles of the previous and next posts -- not the static text "previous page/next page" or whatever.

   In other words, I want the "index" and "archive" to look just like a permalink page -- even down to the previous/next links containing titles.

   previous_post_link is documented to only work in a permalink page; I find it does work in other contexts, except that it shows the static text "%link" instead of the title.

   I thought I might be able to fake it out by assigning $single=1, but that also didn't work.

2. rebeccacotu
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   Hoping more people are around, now that the holiday is over, to help me out...

3. bekabug
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   On the homepage you'd only have a previous link since the one being displayed is the most recent. On your permalink pages you'd use the previous_post_link the way the documentation says.

   So here's how i did it...
   

   <?php
    $prevposts = get_posts('numberposts=2&offset=1');
    foreach($prevposts as $post) :
       setup_postdata($post);
    ?>
    <h3><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>" id="prev-post-<?php the_ID(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h3>
   <?php endforeach; ?>

   I tested this on my blog...worked like a charm.
   http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/get_posts

4. rebeccacotu
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   Thanks! I've made progress using your code, but I'm stuck on the archive/categories/tags screens. In those cases I don't want the permalink -- I have to navigate within the tag or category. Also, offset=-1 doesn't seem to work for getting the "next" item.

   Any suggestions?

5. bekabug
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   Sorry I wasn't clear. The code I gave you is only useful for the homepage.

   As far as the other pages...I'm tapped. I don't think there is a way to make this within the wordpress framework. You would have to somehow structure a custom function/query with PHP. That said...there is probably a reason this functionality has never been attempted in a theme before.

6. bekabug
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   Sorry I wasn't clear. The code I gave you is only useful for the homepage.

   As far as the other pages...I'm tapped. I don't think there is a way to make this within the wordpress framework. You would have to somehow structure a custom function/query with PHP. That said...there is probably a reason this functionality has never been attempted in a theme before.

7. rebeccacotu
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   Never been attempted--by anyone, anywhere, anytime?

   While I'd like to believe that I'm so innovative I've dreamt up something no one else would ever think of, I don't. It might be that there is a technical reason that this is impossible, but I haven't run across a clear enough indication of that, either.

   I do have a possible solution in mind. But before I attempt to reinvent this particular wheel, I'd like to ask around the community of those more experienced than myself in WP, to offer their suggestions/knowledge/solutions.

8. jaucoin
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Try this:

   <ul>
   <li><?php previous_post_link('%link')?></li>
   <li><?php next_post_link('%link') ?></li>
   </ul>

   It would be instead of this:

   <ul>
   <li><?php next_posts_link('&laquo; Older Entries') ?></li>
   <li><?php previous_posts_link('Newer Entries &raquo;') ?></li>
   </ul>

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