Custom Next/Previous links on posts

  • Resolved creativeworldstudio

    (@creativeworldstudio)


    16 years, 2 months ago

    Hello –

    I have a small problem with some custom next/previous post links I’m using – Here’s the code:

    <?php	$next_post = get_next_post();
	$prev_post = get_previous_post(); ?>

<a href="<?php echo get_permalink($prev_post->ID);?>" title="<?php echo str_replace('"', '\'', $prev_post->post_title); ?>" class="">&laquo; Previous post<br /><strong>&quot;<?php echo str_replace('"', '\'', $prev_post->post_title); ?>&quot;</strong></a>

<a href="<?php echo get_permalink($next_post->ID);?>" title="<?php echo str_replace('"', '\'', $next_post->post_title); ?>"  class="">Next post &raquo;<br /><strong>&quot;<?php echo str_replace('"', '\'', $next_post->post_title); ?>&quot;</strong></a>

    The problem is that when you’re at the most recent post, the Next Post will link to itself (current/most recent post). How can I hide the “Next Post” link altogether when on the most recent post?

    (note- this also happens on the most Previous post)

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  • Thread Starter creativeworldstudio

    (@creativeworldstudio)

    I think I’ve managed to solve this myself – using this code:

    <?php
$prev_post = get_previous_post();
if($prev_post) {
   $prev_title = strip_tags(str_replace('"', '', $prev_post->post_title));
   echo "\t" . '<a rel="prev" href="' . get_permalink($prev_post->ID) . '" title="' . $prev_title. '" class=" ">&laquo; Previous post<br /><strong>&quot;'. $prev_title . '&quot;</strong></a>' . "\n";
                }

$next_post = get_next_post();
if($next_post) {
   $next_title = strip_tags(str_replace('"', '', $next_post->post_title));
   echo "\t" . '<a rel="next" href="' . get_permalink($next_post->ID) . '" title="' . $next_title. '" class=" ">Next post &raquo;<br /><strong>&quot;'. $next_title . '&quot;</strong></a>' . "\n";
                }
?>

    This is working for me currently so I’ll mark this post as Solved, but if anyone has a better method, please let me know/make a post here.

    Cheers.

    Thanks a lot! for this chunk of usefull code. You saved me.

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