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1. Adam W. Warner
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   I am trying to pull in the latest post of a specific category into a page. I am using the exec-php plugin that allows me to insert php. I can't seem to get my query correct because it's pulling two of the same post and displaying them in my page. Can anyone tell me what's wrong with my query?

   <?php query_posts('cat=3&posts_per_page=1&offset=1'); ?>
   <?php if (have_posts()) : ?>
      <?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
        <div class="post">
         <h2 id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>">
   <a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title(); ?>">
   <?php the_title(); ?></a></h2>
   </div>
   <?php endwhile; ?>
   <?php else : ?>
     <h2 class="center">Not Found</h2>
   <p class="center"><?php _e("Sorry, but you are looking for something that isn't here."); ?></p>
    <?php endif; ?>

   Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

2. songdogtech
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   You can leave the standard wordpress loop as it is and use a new query so as to not conflict with the standard loop (and use as many times as needed on a page/post):

   <?php $my_query = new WP_Query('category_name=mycategory&showposts=1'); ?><?php while ($my_query->have_posts()) : $my_query->the_post(); ?>
   <div class="post">
   <h2 id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>">
   <a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" title="<?php the_title(); ?>">
   <?php the_title(); ?></a></h2></div>
   <?php endwhile; ?>

3. Adam W. Warner
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Hi songdogtech,

   Thank you very much for the guidance. This is working perfectly, thank you!

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