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1. shafee85
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Hello,

   I have looked through the support forum but couldnt find a clear answer for my problem.

   I am using the query_posts command within a category. the code is as follows,
   

   <?php query_posts('cat=53&showposts=1'); ?>
      <?php if ( have_posts() ) : ?>
      <?php while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); ?>

   Now the category displays the most latest post on the page as i want it to. No problem there. However, there is no way of viewing the older post for this particular category (since only the latest one is displayed).

   How can i add a link like OLDER ENTRIES to this page and make them link to the rest of the posts? Would appreciate any help.

   Thank you for reading.

2. stvwlf
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Try adding this code after the endwhile statement further down the page

   <div class="navigation">
   	<div class="alignleft"><?php next_posts_link('&laquo; Older Entries') ?></div>
   	<div class="alignright"><?php previous_posts_link('Newer Entries &raquo;') ?></div>
   </div>

3. shafee85
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Thank you very much for your post.

   Inserting stvwlf's code shows the older entries/ newer entries link. but it loads the same article page that im on.

   E.g. i inserted this code to category id 53 (mydomain.com/?cat=53). when the above code is inserted i get the older entries link at it links as mydomain.com/?cat=53&paged2

   when clicked it shows the same page as /?cat=53. What do i need to do to make this work? Please help

   Note: I am using 2 query_post loops within the page. Could this be causing the problem?

4. stvwlf
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   You need to change your query_posts statement to add paging code,
   like this:

   `<?php $paged = (get_query_var('paged')) ? get_query_var('paged') : 1;
   query_posts("cat=53&showposts=1&paged=$paged"); ?>`

   That should resolve it. The double quotes on query_posts are now necessary.

5. shafee85
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Thank you very much stvwlf. Your piece of code works perfectly :D Cant thank you enough.

   Cheers!

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