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1. thornomad
   Member
   Posted 6 years ago #
   

   Hi,

   When I click on a category link, instead of getting the most recent posts generated in that category, I would rather be brought to THE most recent post (and that is all).

   I can do this by limiting the loop to only displaying the FIRST post, but what I would rather do, is have some kind of fowarding mechanism that when category-1 is called, it will instead bring me to the single of the latest post in that category (so I can use the next_post and previous_post links).

   Any ideas ?

2. Chris_K
   Member
   Posted 6 years ago #
   

   I haven't a clue how to get exactly where you're headed, but I have a thought.

   Start with this plugin: http://mattread.com/projects/wp-plugins/custom-query-string-plugin/

   It will let you set your assorted category queries to 1 without changing how other parts of your blog are listed. Perhaps then you could just customize your category.php to have the next / prev links and display full post.

3. thornomad
   Member
   Posted 6 years ago #
   

   I will check it out: what I would like to be able to do is just use:

   <?php query_posts('cat=1&showposts=1');
while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
<li><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="">What's New</a></li>
<?php endwhile; ?>

   This accomplishes what I want, however, it messes up my loop and I don't know how to reset the loop to work right.

   D

4. Chris_K
   Member
   Posted 6 years ago #
   

   While template file's loop is that you're editing?

5. dss
   Member
   Posted 6 years ago #
   

   I was just working on this.

   I think this code may help you:

   
<? // the first loop ?>
<?php if (have_posts()) : ?>
<?php query_posts('cat=4&amp;showposts=1');
while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>

   <div class=&quot;post&quot; id=&quot;post-<?php the_ID(); ?>&quot;>
   <h2><a href=&quot;<?php the_permalink() ?>&quot; rel=&quot;bookmark&quot; title=&quot;Permanent Link to <?php the_title(); ?>&quot;><?php the_title(); ?></a></h2>

   <div class=&quot;entry&quot;>
   <?php the_excerpt('Read More &amp;raquo;'); ?>
   </div>
   </div>

   <?php endwhile; ?>
   <? // End the first loop ?>

   <? // The second loop ?>

   <?php rewind_posts(); ?>

   <?php query_posts('cat=1&amp;showposts=1');
   while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>

   <div class=&quot;post&quot; id=&quot;post-<?php the_ID(); ?>&quot;>
   <h2><a href=&quot;<?php the_permalink() ?>&quot; rel=&quot;bookmark&quot; title=&quot;Permanent Link to <?php the_title(); ?>&quot;><?php the_title(); ?></a></h2>

   <div class=&quot;entry&quot;>
   <?php the_excerpt('Read More &amp;raquo;'); ?>
   </div>
   </div>

   <?php endwhile; ?>

   <? // End the second loop ?>


   Hope this helps.

6. dss
   Member
   Posted 6 years ago #
   

   Well... that didn't decode so well did it?

   the " are supposed to be quotations

   Hopefully you can work it out.

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