Alex Cragg

@jvinch – I realise you posted that a long time ago, but maybe you are still following this thread.
@gmcdonough – I think I understand what you are saying, and I think I have a simpler way.

Jvinch, why are you running two separate loops for you featured content? If you use your first loop to call two posts, then store their IDs in an array under do_not_duplicate, you can later call that array of IDs to exclude them from your second loop in the right column.

This is how I do it:

<?php $recent= new WP_Query('category_name=A-Feature&showposts=2');
while ($recent->have_posts()) : $recent->the_post();
$do_not_duplicate[] = get_the_ID();?>
stuff
<?php endwhile; ?>

Then when you run your second loop, you search this array to find the IDs in it, and then the !== false makes sure that they are not used.

<?php query_posts('category_name=A&showposts=9'); ?>
<?php while (have_posts()) : the_post();
if (array_search(get_the_ID(), $do_not_duplicate) !== false)
continue; update_post_caches($posts); ?>
stuff
<?php endwhile; ?>

Hope that works for you, let me know.
Alex

I just replied to your other thread:
http://wordpress.org/support/topic/161913?replies=2

Try not to post duplicates though!:-)

Just to let you know that I have a plugin that performs this function(defining the registration email), which saves editing a core file(which should be avoided), you can find it here:
New User Email Setup

After a few thoughts on this, I decided the easiest way would be the following:

open up link-template in wp-includes, and find the following:
function adjacent_post_link($format, $link, $in_same_cat = false, $excluded_categories = '', $previous = true)

This is the function that gets the next and previous post titles. I think prior to 2.5 it was called something else, maybe one of the next_post etc functions, but i might be wrong.

Now in that function find this:

if ( !$post )
return;
$title = $post->post_title;
if ( empty($post->post_title) )
$title = $previous ? __('Previous Post') : __('Next Post');

If you change the two instances of post_title to post_content you will have the next and last content displayed.(I couldn’t get post_excerpt to work as I use the more tag, and didn’t have time to put in some text in the excerpt field to test any further)

There are a few problems with this though, the content is not clickable to actually take you to that post, so you would need to use next_post_link to access the title, however, those functions just reference the one we just changed, so we can’t do that. The next step therefore (which I think I might do next week), is to turn this into a plugin, allowing you to define if you want the content, excerpt, or maybe get an image from that post, as well as having the title displayed.

Have a play and see what you think, I have a few other ideas(involving SQL queries), but this looks like the simplest.

Alex

hey, I have a plugin to do this, my site is down at the mo, but check it out here on the extend section of this site.

This is all perfectly possible.
Have a look here
http://codex.wordpress.org/Stepping_Into_Templates#Special_Template_Files
http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags
http://codex.wordpress.org/Category_Templates

If you have any other question after reading that, just post back and we’ll do our best to help you out!