Display the latest post in the home

  • Hi!

    I’m creating a theme an I would display on the last post in the home page, now I’ve this code:

    <?php
if (is_home() && !is_paged())
    query_posts('posts_per_page=1');
?>

    it works, it displays the latest post on the home, but when I click to Old Articles i get Not Found (url https://blog.domain/wordpress/?paged=2

    and I don’t know how to resolve ??

    also when I go to https://blog.domain/wordpress/?paged=1
    I get the post but is also displayed the latest post.

    Thanks for any reply

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  • Try query_posts('showposts=1');

    Thread Starter patrick91

    (@patrick91)

    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

    Thread Starter patrick91

    (@patrick91)

    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);
?>
    Thread Starter patrick91

    (@patrick91)

    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);
?>
    Thread Starter patrick91

    (@patrick91)

    ohhh, it’s workin’ ??

    Thank you very much ??

    Thread Starter patrick91

    (@patrick91)

    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.

    Thread Starter patrick91

    (@patrick91)

    they’re working fine ??

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