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1. Syni
   Member
   Posted 6 years ago #

   Is there any tag that allows you to tell if a post is the latest post? I've searched and couldn't find one.

2. moshu
   Member
   Posted 6 years ago #

   I don't remember anything like that. And I don't even think is needed - if you have your Loop to show 1 (one) post, that's always the latest (unless you tell it to do otherwise :).

3. Syni
   Member
   Posted 6 years ago #

   Yeah, but I want certain images to change depending on if the post is the latest or not. So, I'm confused. :p

4. Joshua Sigar
   Member
   Posted 6 years ago #

   You could probably do something like the following inside the Loop.

   if ($wp_query->current_post == 0 && is_home()) // latest post
{

   }

   EDIT: make sure to use that code only in the front page
   EDIT2: ok. I edited the code above. should be more bulletproof now.

5. Syni
   Member
   Posted 6 years ago #

   Thanks Alphaoide. Is there a way to do this on a single post page too?

6. Joshua Sigar
   Member
   Posted 6 years ago #

   The following solution makes my previous solution obsolete.

   What you want to do is
   (Before the Loop begins)
   1. Get one latest post with template tag get_posts
   2. Get the date of that latest post.
   (Inside the Loop)
   3. Compare the current post's date with latest post's date

   So, step 1 and 2 would be...
   <?php
$latest_post = get_posts('numberposts=1');
$latest_date = $latest_post[0]->post_date;
?>

   and step 3...
   <?php
if ($latest_date == $post->post_date) :
echo "LATEST";
endif;
?>

7. Syni
   Member
   Posted 6 years ago #

   Thank you! That works perfectly!

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