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1. odecom5
   Member
   Posted 5 years ago #
   

   Hey guys. I'm setting up a custom blog, and on the index page, I want users to be able to click to go to the next post down, so they don't have to scroll.

   The best way that I can think to do this is to link it to the previous post id (rather than permalink to the previous post). I know how to get the current post ID, but I'm at a loss as to how to get the ID for the previous post. Is this going to require a custom function? i've done a lot of searching but have come up with nothing so far.

   Thanks for your help!

   edit.
   for example, each div is id'ed "post-53" or whatever number the current id post is. I want a link that will go to "#post-52" which goes to the div for post-52.

2. odecom5
   Member
   Posted 5 years ago #
   

   bump. any help for this? thanks.

3. odecom5
   Member
   Posted 5 years ago #
   

   anyone? :(

4. odecom5
   Member
   Posted 5 years ago #
   

   one more time to the top... i hope somebody can help me here. this function is very important to the site

5. Samuel Wood (Otto)
   Tech Ninja
   Posted 5 years ago #
   

   The ID for the next post can be retreived like this:

   function get_next_post_id() {
   global $wp_query;
   if ($wp_query->$current_post == $wp_query->$post_count) return 0;
   $next_post = $wp_query->posts[$wp_query->current_post + 1];
   return $next_post->ID;
   }

   Stick that function in the theme's functions.php file. Then just call get_next_post_id() to get the next ID in the posts loop. Like so:
   <a href="#post-<?php echo get_next_post_id(); ?>" />

   It should return zero on the last post though, so you might want to check for that condition.

6. odecom5
   Member
   Posted 5 years ago #
   

   thanks for your reply! i'll try it out tonight. Can I also do the same thing for the previous post?

7. queenvictoria
   Member
   Posted 5 years ago #
   

   Thanks Otto42 for that code.
   Just a quick correct to Otto42's code. Note the removal of the $ before post_count and current_post on line 3.

   function get_next_post_id() {
   global $wp_query;
   if ($wp_query->current_post == $wp_query->post_count) return 0;
   $next_post = $wp_query->posts[$wp_query->current_post + 1];
   return $next_post->ID;
   }

   And yes, the get_previous_post_id() function would have current_post - 1 on line 4.

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