Limit front page only to one post

Could use the showposts=1 parameter with the Template Tag, query_posts.

Beautiful! That did just the trick, thank you!

I’m at a loss as to how to implement this on my own site. I’ve entered:

<?php
   if (is_home()) {
      query_posts("showposts=1");
   }
?>

before these lines:

<?php if (have_posts()) : ?>
<?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>

And the result is that it restricts the first page of my site to the last entry – which is good. But when I click on the “Older Entries” link, all I get is the same single post again, over and over. Nothing else appears.

If I place that If statement like so:

<?php if (have_posts()) : ?>
<?php
   if (is_home()) {
      query_posts("showposts=1");
   }
?>
<?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>

the result is the same.

What am I doing wrong? I haven’t set up a home.php file, as that also did not work. This is going straight into my Main Index Template.

Thanks for your assistance.

Okay, I’ve changed my query to

<?php
if (is_home()) {
$paged = (get_query_var('paged')) ? get_query_var('paged') : 1;
query_posts("&posts_per_page=1&paged=$paged");
}
?>
<?php if (have_posts()) : ?>

But it’s only showing one page on every page now, though the post IS changing. I only want it to show one post on the home page (I assmed that’s what the “is_home” would take care of – but it’s not???).

Thanks again for any clarification.

No suggestions?

You have to use
`query_posts($query_string . “&showposts=1”);

I’m interested in putting the first 10 posts on the front page of my site. I googled and found this place where a similar question was asked.

It seems there is assumed knowledge here because I don’t understand which file you guys are talking about. Could you please tell me the step-by-step procedure to changing the amount of posts that appears on the front page?

PS. but not necessary:
Is there a way to limit which categories are pooled from for the front page?