something like this might work:
<?php $latest = get_pages('number=1&sort_column=post_date&sort_order=desc');
echo '<a href="' . get_permalink($latest[0]->ID) . '">Newest Chapter</a>'; ?>
http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_pages
http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_permalink
It’s grabbing the latest post but still isn’t registering pages.
Thanks though, that gives me somewhere to start – I’ll dig in to get_permalink a bit more.
**Edit**
Then again, reading through wp_get_pages it doesn’t make sense why it’s even pulling posts at all…now I’m really confused.
Ah, got it. It didn’t like the fact that the new page was a sub page. Knowing that, I can get it figured out — Thank you so much for your help!
For anyone interested, here is how I solved the issue (thanks to alchymyth’s code):
<?php $latest = get_pages('number=1&sort_column=menu_order&sort_order=desc');
echo '<a href="' . get_permalink($latest[0]->ID) . '">Newest Chapter</a>'; ?>
No subpages but since she’s postings chapters from a book I just let non-chapter pages default to “order 0” and chapters use a 2 digit number where the first number is the book # and the second is the chapter #;
so book 1 chapter 3 would be #13, chapter 4 is #14, etc. Table of Contents would be 10.
Hope this helps with anyone else trying to publish stories online.
Ok, I’m back.
The code that Alchymyth provided works great unless I use parent/child pages.
Our current setup is like this:
-Books
– Series 1
– Book 1
-Ch1
-Ch2
– Book 2
-Ch 1
– Series 2
Etc.
I’ve tried hundreds of variations of wp_list_pages but I don’t understand the code provided in the codex to list children and how to mix it with the code provided by Alchymyth.
Currently I can only get it to list the newest page in a single given parent.
Any suggestions?
you are right – for some unexplained reason, get_pages() fails in some levels of child pages 🙁
try this:
<?php $latest = get_posts('numberposts=1&post_type=page&orderby=post_date&order=desc');
echo '<a href="' . get_permalink($latest[0]->ID) . '">Newest Chapter</a>'; ?>
Damn, that was quick. It worked, thank you yet again for the help. I truly appreciate it.
gee – you are even quicker testing it 😉
thanks for marking this thread as ‘resolved’
Marked as solved.
As a note, I tried orderby=menu_order and it works as well.
Thanks again!
