Title: Show last post doesn't work!?
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Show last post doesn't work!?

 *  [Alkorr](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alkorr/)
 * (@alkorr)
 * [15 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/show-last-post-doesnt-work/)
 * Hi. I thought what I wanted to do was simple but obviously, it’s not… I want 
   to show the latest published post on my blog and I used this code:
 *     ```
       <?php query_posts('posts_per_page=1'); ?>
       <?php if (have_posts()) : while(have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
       <a>" rel="bookmark" title="Read: <?php the_title(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a>
       <?php the_excerpt(); ?>
       <?php endwhile; ?>
       <?php endif; ?>
       ```
   
 * If I don’t put a ‘tag=’ right after ‘posts_per_page=’ I have more than one post
   showing. I need to customize the latest post so I want to make a query for it.
   Is this a bug or else? There is no other query on my page. I don’t understand
   why it doesn’t work 🙁
 * Thanks for your help!

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 *  Thread Starter [Alkorr](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alkorr/)
 * (@alkorr)
 * [15 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/show-last-post-doesnt-work/#post-2014013)
 * Me again. I tried to use ‘showposts’ instead of ‘posts_per_page’ but it gives
   the same result… Any suggestion? Thanks!

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