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1. chrisanthropic
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Hi all,

   I'm using WordPress as a CMS with the loop displayed on the main page.
   My wife posts a new chapter of her book every week as a PAGE (paginated) and then writes a POST with notes and a link to it.

   We're creating a series of links in the header:
   "First Chapter"
   "Newest Chapter"
   "Next"
   "Previous"

   I'm using the "next-page-not-next-post" plugin for the next/previous links, but I can't for the life of me figure out how to make a "Newest Chapter" link that dynamically links to the most recent static PAGE.

   The site's still local only for now, but here's a link to a screenshot for clarification.

   Thanks for the help!

2. alchymyth
   The Sweeper
   Posted 1 year ago #

   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

3. chrisanthropic
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   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.

4. chrisanthropic
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   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!

5. chrisanthropic
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   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.

6. chrisanthropic
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   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?

7. alchymyth
   The Sweeper
   Posted 1 year ago #

   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>'; ?>

8. chrisanthropic
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Damn, that was quick. It worked, thank you yet again for the help. I truly appreciate it.

9. alchymyth
   The Sweeper
   Posted 1 year ago #

   gee - you are even quicker testing it ;-)

   thanks for marking this thread as 'resolved'

10. chrisanthropic
    Member
    Posted 1 year ago #

    Marked as solved.

    As a note, I tried orderby=menu_order and it works as well.

    Thanks again!

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