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Resolved guitarcrazy087
(@guitarcrazy087)

15 years ago

Okay so here’s my problem. I have a side bar on the left in my header.php file. In this side bar I would like to display the title and date of my most recent post, no matter what is being displayed in the body of the site. i.e. a “page”, a post from years ago, even the most recent post itself.

I am new to editing the PHP of WordPress and all my attempts at this have failed. I have searched through the codex and found nothing that has worked so far.

Any help is appreciated!

Thanks!

Joe

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Samuel B
(@samboll)

15 years ago

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/recent-posts/

http://www.vincentprat.info/dev/wordpress-plugins/enhanced-recent-posts/download/
Thread Starter guitarcrazy087
(@guitarcrazy087)

15 years ago
Okay, I found a way to do it. I did this:
```
$my_query = new WP_Query('showposts=1');
while ($my_query->have_posts()) : $my_query->the_post();
	$do_not_duplicate = $post->ID;

$title = "the_title()";

echo $title;

endwhile;
wp_reset_query();
```
That’s what I used for the first part. The other part still works.

Thanks for the suggestion.

I have one other question though: how do I capture the output of the_title() in a variable without it printing onto the page?

Thanks!

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