brisimmons105

I’m wondering if anyone found a solution to this?
Having the same issue here.

Thanks Chris,

Basically, I have lots of categories that act as bands/musicians, and I will be adding more each week.
Each post in the category will represent a song by that band…so there may anywhere from 1-10 posts in that category.

Now I’m currently listing out all of the bands I have on an ‘artists’ page, which basically just calls all of the categories on my site at one time, and lists them out.

When a user clicks on a band name, right now it takes them to the category archive page that lists out all of the posts in that category….which I don’t want to happen.

I’d like it to skip the category archives page all together and go right to the latest post in that category….

Does that help?

Hmm..I can;t seem to get it to work…mind taking a look at my code?
(I’ve replaced the category ID variable here to display the category for testing purposes)

<?php
/**
 * Template Name: One column, no sidebar Artist
 *
 * A custom page template without sidebar.
 *
 * The "Template Name:" bit above allows this to be selectable
 * from a dropdown menu on the edit page screen.
 *
 * @package WordPress
 * @subpackage Twenty_Ten
 * @since Twenty Ten 1.0
 */

get_header(); ?>

		<div id="container" class="one-column">
			<div id="content" role="main">

				<?php if ( have_posts() ) while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); ?>

				<?php $args = array(
				'category' => 'category',
				'numberposts' => 1
				);
				$myposts= get_posts($args);
				$first_post = get_permalink($myposts[0]->ID); ?>

				<div id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>" <?php post_class(); ?>>
					<h1 class="entry-title"><?php the_title(); ?></h1>
					<div class="entry-content">
						<?php the_content(); ?>
						<?php wp_link_pages( array( 'before' => '<div class="page-link">' . __( 'Pages:', 'twentyten' ), 'after' => '</div>' ) ); ?>
						<?php edit_post_link( __( 'Edit', 'twentyten' ), '<span class="edit-link">', '</span>' ); ?>
					</div><!-- .entry-content -->
				</div><!-- #post-## -->
                		<?php wp_list_categories('orderby=name&show_count=1&title_li'); ?>
					<?php comments_template( '', true ); ?>

				<?php endwhile; ?>

			</div><!-- #content -->
		</div><!-- #container -->
	<?php if (function_exists('get_cat_icon_lite')) echo get_cat_icon_lite();?>
<?php get_footer(); ?>

I may have come up with another way to accomplish this.

Rather than call the category list, then have the category lists link directly to the latest post, I could just call the latest post from each category.

But rather than display the post title, I could call a custom taxonomy with the artist name (category name)…

Not sure which one would be better.

Does that make sense?

Thanks for your help.