I haven’t a clue how to get exactly where you’re headed, but I have a thought.
Start with this plugin: http://mattread.com/projects/wp-plugins/custom-query-string-plugin/
It will let you set your assorted category queries to 1 without changing how other parts of your blog are listed. Perhaps then you could just customize your category.php
to have the next / prev links and display full post.
I will check it out: what I would like to be able to do is just use:
<?php query_posts('cat=1&showposts=1');
while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
<li><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="">What's New</a></li>
<?php endwhile; ?>
This accomplishes what I want, however, it messes up my loop and I don’t know how to reset the loop to work right.
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While template file’s loop is that you’re editing?
I was just working on this.
I think this code may help you:
<? // the first loop ?>
<?php if (have_posts()) : ?>
<?php query_posts('cat=4&showposts=1');
while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
<div class="post" id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>">
<h2><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h2>
<div class="entry">
<?php the_excerpt('Read More &raquo;'); ?>
</div>
</div>
<?php endwhile; ?>
<? // End the first loop ?>
<? // The second loop ?>
<?php rewind_posts(); ?>
<?php query_posts('cat=1&showposts=1');
while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
<div class="post" id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>">
<h2><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h2>
<div class="entry">
<?php the_excerpt('Read More &raquo;'); ?>
</div>
</div>
<?php endwhile; ?>
<? // End the second loop ?>
Hope this helps.
Well… that didn’t decode so well did it?
the "
are supposed to be quotations
Hopefully you can work it out.