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1. jimmyt1988
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Hi all,

   I have set up a page where I would like the posts that I create to be accessed via a link down the left hand side of my website.

   The link text would be the titles of the posts.

   So for example, If I create 2 posts. One is called: hi, the other is called: bye.

   I want those two posts as links down the left handside:

   Hi
   Bye

   And when you click on these links, it shows the content of that post (blog).

   How do I go about doing this.

   Something like this:
   <?php wp_get_archives('postbypost&limit=15'); ?>
   But rather than the archive date being a link to a list of uncategorised blog entries, I want the blog entries to be the list down the side.

   Hope I explained enough.

   Mega look forward to your responses!

2. alchymyth
   The Sweeper
   Posted 2 years ago #

   did you have a look at the 'recent posts' widget, which does something similar?

   otherwise, you could build a mini loop to show just the linked titles of the posts.

3. jimmyt1988
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   The second sounds more yummy.

   Any chance you could give me an example in which I can learn from?

4. alchymyth
   The Sweeper
   Posted 2 years ago #

   http://codex.wordpress.org/The_Loop_in_Action
   http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/query_posts

   using an unordered list for instance:
   

   <ul>
   <?php
   query_posts('cat=0$posts_per_page=-1'); // query to show all posts independant from what is in the center;
   if (have_posts()) :
      while (have_posts()) :
         the_post(); ?>
   <li>
         <a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title_attribute(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a>
   </li>
   <?php  endwhile;
   endif;
   wp_reset_query();
   ?>
   </ul>

   this should give you a list of all posts, linked to each individual post.

5. jimmyt1988
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   If(the function have_posts returns true){ then
   while (the function that is asking if there are any posts is true){
   echo the function that has the post information;
   wrap link around the function that returns just the title of the function that has the information of each post;
   }
   }

   What does the wp_reset_query(); do?

   P.S it works and thankyou very much

6. alchymyth
   The Sweeper
   Posted 2 years ago #

   What does the wp_reset_query(); do?

   it does what it says in the codex:
   http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wp_reset_query

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