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1. dudleyi
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   I want to have a bit of php code that I can place anywhere that refers to the latest post in a particular category. How would I go about that?

   I'm a bit mystified about how to do this.I looked around the codex and couldn't find a clearcut answer.

   Thanks
   Dudley

2. OTN
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   You can use query_posts for something like that.

   posts_per_page is set to get the latest 1 post and cat=1 limits the post to being from that specific category.

   <?php query_posts('posts_per_page=1&cat=1');
   
   if ( have_posts() ) : while ( have_posts() ) : the_post();
    ..
   endwhile; else:
    ..
   endif;
   
   wp_reset_query(); ?>

3. brisimmons105
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Hi OTN,

   I know this is a bit late, but is there a way to do this without knowing the specific category ID?

   I'd like to have the category ID dynamically generated, since I will have lots of categories.

   I'm guessing I need a loop to do this, but I am not sure.

   Thanks.

4. chriseverson
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Could you provide more detail about the usage? There are various different ways to pull category IDs dynamically.

   Specifically, are you pulling just one category at a time, all categories, or a selection of categories?

5. brisimmons105
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Thanks Chris,

   Basically, I have lots of categories that act as bands/musicians, and I will be adding more each week.
   Each post in the category will represent a song by that band...so there may anywhere from 1-10 posts in that category.

   Now I'm currently listing out all of the bands I have on an 'artists' page, which basically just calls all of the categories on my site at one time, and lists them out.

   When a user clicks on a band name, right now it takes them to the category archive page that lists out all of the posts in that category....which I don't want to happen.

   I'd like it to skip the category archives page all together and go right to the latest post in that category....

   Does that help?

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