Display the latest post in the home

Try query_posts('showposts=1');

no, it’s the same ??

Is this an archive (posts) page or within a page template? Only is_home() and is_front_page() return slightly different results depending upon what type of page you’re on. Also:

– where are you adding the query_posts line in relation to the Loop?
– what are you using to generate the previous posts link? posts_nav_link()?

https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Template_Tags/query_posts#Example_3

thanks for the reply.
I’m in index.php and I want to show the latest post if is the home page, so I change the post_per_page var to 1 if I’m in the home and it is not a page, but if I do so the navigation is broken because I get the next page link euqual to url?paged=2 which is correct if I’ve post_per_page equal to 1 everytime, but post_per_page is

1. equals to 1 for the first page
2. equals to 5 for other pages

for nav links I use this code:

<div class="navigation">
			<div class="alignleft"><?php next_posts_link('&laquo; Older Entries')) ?></div>
			<div class="alignright"><?php previous_posts_link('Newer Entries &raquo;')) ?></div>
		</div>

What about trying:

<?php
if (is_home()) {
	if(!is_paged()) $ppp=1;
	else $ppp=5;
}
else $ppp = 5; // assuming this template is also used for categories, tags etc
query_posts('posts_per_page='.$ppp);
?>

mhm, it seems workin’ but when I go to the second page I get also the latest post ??
we need to set a start parameter?

The offset parameter, I think:

<?php
if (is_home()) {
	if(!is_paged()) {
		$ppp=1;
		$offset = 0;
	}
	else {
		$ppp=5;
		$offset = 1;
	}
}
else {
	$ppp = 5; // assuming this template is also used for categories, tags etc
	$offset = 0;
}
query_posts('posts_per_page='.$ppp.'&offset='.$offset);
?>

ohhh, it’s workin’ ??

Thank you very much ??

It doesn’t work if you have pretty url ?? like blog.url.tld/page/2

works only with url like this blog.url.tld/?paged=2

why this?

Shouldn’t make any difference…

Do pretty permalinks work for everything else?…

It’s more likely the permalinks are not working correctly.

they’re working fine ??