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1. Doug
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   I working on a blog theme for myself and I want to feature the About page in my sidebar. This would just be the opening part, with a read more link at the end. Also, I want to have it check so that if it's on the about page, it instead displays the most recent post.

   So, first I have my content section which goes through The Loop. I've added this code to my sidebar to select the about page.
   

   <?
   query_posts('page_id=160');//select the about page, ID 160 (don't ask).
   the_post();//start the_post so i can get the info
   ?>
   
   <h2 class="entry-title c5r"><a href="<? the_permalink(); ?>" title="Permanent Link to <? the_title_attribute(); ?>" rel="bookmark"><? the_title();?></a></h2>
   
   <? the_content('Find Out More <span class="meta-nav">></span>'); ?>

   It seems to work except for one crucial thing; the more-link won't work. It's in there, but it won't display, it just prints the whole post, which i don't want.

   And for part 2, I wanted to have it check if it's on the about page, and if so, grab the most recent post info and do that, which I have no idea how to do.

2. esmi
   Theme Diva & Forum Moderator
   Posted 2 years ago #

   The more tag doesn't work on Pages without a template hack. Also I'd suggest using get_posts - not query_posts - and creating a pseudo-more link in the code if necessary.

   Part 2: See Conditional_Tags and again, consider using get_posts.

   http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_posts

3. Doug
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   okay, I've used the get_post instead, and just did a substr on post_content to cut it off at the more link and then write it.

   However, I'm having trouble getting part 2 to work. I'm having it check is_single('about') (i checked and that is the slug) but it won't return true. I tried putting that check in the page template and... oh i'll just show you:

   <? the_post();
   if(is_single('about')){
   $is_page="about";
   }?>

   that's on the page.php file, then on the sidebar I have:

   <? if($is_page=="about"){
   echo "Latest Post";
   }else{
   echo "About";
   }?>

   I think I was at least able to get the most recent post part to work in the meantime, but not this page check.

4. esmi
   Theme Diva & Forum Moderator
   Posted 2 years ago #

   is_single() only works for a single post page. You're working with Pages, yes?

5. Doug
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Yes, I couldn't seem to find any other function that did the same thing for pages.

6. esmi
   Theme Diva & Forum Moderator
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Try is_page().

7. Doug
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Oh... I missed that one. Well, actually I did notice that, but at a glance I thought it was referring to navigational pages (page 3 of 7 type of thing) not post pages.

   Thanks so much for your help.

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