cyberico

This CODE works good for me in wordpress 2.0 to accomplish this purpose:

a) to display the LATEST post in excerpt fashion (ideal in the frontpage)

b) to EXCLUDE a specific category (i.e. #6) that will not be eligible for latest post

here the code:

<h3>Latest Article</h3>

<?php query_posts('showposts=1'); ?>

<?php if ( have_posts() ) : while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); ?>
<?php if ( !(in_category('6')) ) { ?>

<div class="post">
<h2 class="post-title"><a>" title="Permanent link to <?php the_title(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h2>
<p class="post-meta"><?php the_time('F jS, Y') ?> / <?php the_category(', ') ?> / <?php comments_popup_link('No comments', '1 comment', '% comments','Comments are off for this post'); ?>
<div class="post-body">
<?php the_excerpt(); ?>
<p class="more"><a>" title="Permanent link to <?php the_title(); ?>">Continue reading</a>
</div>
</div>

<?php } ?> <!-- Close the if statement. -->

<?php endwhile; else: ?>
Sorry, no posts matched your criteria.
<?php endif; ?>

Code will find the latest post excluding category #6.

you can change category ID/number modifing this line (change number 6):

<?php if ( !(in_category('6')) ) { ?>

you can display the 2 or 3 or .. last posts modifing this line (change number 1):

<?php query_posts('showposts=1'); ?>

good luck!
enrico

no query_posts does not work because the code that uses my template (Brajeshwar v7.0) seems to be a “revised loop”.

see:
http://codex.wordpress.org/Displaying_Posts_Using_a_Custom_Select_Query

i need another command line to exclude a category that works with it.

any idea??