Previous/Next Post in Category?

I think you’ll find the answer here.

in_same_cat argument should be set to TRUE.

Hi,

I am having a very similar issue and I understand where Katana is coming from.

I have multiple categories each with their own posts. I have set my permalinks and added the true condition. This works great for my categories. By clicking on a post in my category I can navigate back and forth through any of the other posts within that category.

My problem lies with my homepage. This displays all my posts from any categories in chronological order. When I click into one of these posts you would expect to be able to navigate through them as you see them on the home page irrespective of their category. Unfortunately once you click on a post from the homepage you can only navigate through the category that that post was created in.

Like Katana, this solution will have to do for now.

I do have a quick question though regarding the IF statement that you provided above. What the correct condition be if you were not in any category (ie you are on the home page)? I would like it to look something like this:

<?php if (ON HOME PAGE){ ?>
			<div class="alignleft"><?php previous_post_link('&laquo; %link','%title',FALSE,'') ?></div>
			<div class="alignright"><?php next_post_link('%link &raquo;','%title',FALSE,'') ?></div>
			<?php }

			else { ?>
			<div class="alignleft"><?php previous_post_link('&laquo; %link','%title','TRUE','') ?></div>
			<div class="alignright"><?php next_post_link('%link &raquo;','%title','TRUE','') ?></div>
			<?php } ?>

Thanks in advance,
Rev

Yet, this is exactly my wish too.
The behaviour from previous-posts – next posts (yes, the other one) on the index.php and on the category.php does exactly that. index.php flips through all posts (say 5 per page) and category.php flips thrpough posts in the category you chose from the menu only.

Now if you make a , lets say, category-10.php template, when clicking on the menu item you land on that specific category page.
Visitors can go on from there by clucking on the title
<h2>” rel=”bookmark” title=”Ga naar: <?php the_title(); ?>”> <?php the_title(); ?></h2>

or on the read more link
<?php the_content(‘.. lees meer ..’); ?>

Now if I could tell these two links on this specific category template to not use single.php but singlewithtrue.php!!! But how?

So single.php contains:
<div class=”containerbottomtextalignleft”><?php previous_post_link(‘ %link’, ‘« Ouder bericht’); ?></div>
<div class=”containerbottomtextalignright”><?php next_post_link(‘ %link’, ‘Nieuwer bericht »’); ?></div>

and singlewithtrue contains:
<div class=”containerbottomtextalignleft”><?php previous_post_link(‘ %link’, ‘« Ouder bericht’, TRUE); ?></div>
<div class=”containerbottomtextalignright”><?php next_post_link(‘ %link’, ‘Nieuwer bericht »’, TRUE); ?></div>

then I would be the man.

Anyone?

Same request here too!
I would love to be able to do exactly the same thing: different of ways of navigating through posts depending of where the user comes from… Is there a way to do that???

Thank you Smallina. I found and tried that route before. But still, it checks wether a post is “in” a certain category and acts accordingly. It does not check where the reader is coming from.
To explain once more, here is my test site:
http://www.enduro.nl/wptest/

Now, when a new visitor lands there after, say, three days, he sees 10 recent posts on the front page (four without scrolling). Lets say you quickly read the titles of these four and think: hey, nr 2 and 3 are interesting. You click on the title of nr 2, read it and then see the nextpost link. You click it and expect nr 3. So far no problem if I make a nextpost link without TRUE.
But, imagine the next visitor; he is a regular and goes straight for his favorite category in the left menu. Try “uitslagen en standen” ; he clicks the top one, reads it and also uses “older post”. The he gets a post from a different category (not what he wants).

But if I make a category5.php with nextpostTRUE and test to what category the post belongs, my “new visitor” will have a problem, not getting what he expects.

So in programming terms I look for:

When single is accessed from index use and keep using nextpostNOTTRUE
else When single is accessed from (any)category use and keep using nextpostTRUE.

Well, at least this is a brain stretcher for me.

What about using a drop down menu that somehow passes the selected category through the link to the next page? At least, that would be helpful for me, and seems like it matches up with these problems.

On my site, there are three distinct areas. One for Monday updates, one for Wednesday updates, and one for Friday updates. On the homepage, “back”, “next”, etc., cycle through them all.

What I’d like to be able to do is have a drop down that says “currently browsing” or something like that, and have choices be:
-All
-Mondays
-Wednesdays
-Fridays

If the user selects one, that will be what the nav buttons control until the user changes it. Is it possible to have them select that, and have the info passed to the next page? It sounds to me like it would be similar to the IF statements above, but it would default to whatever was already selected.

Does that make conceptual sense to anyone? If so, I would very much appreciate any ideas of how to actually implement that or sample code, as I’m not so strong with actual code syntax.