Wordpress PHP Question - Show One Post On Homepage

I have been searching for how to do this for a few hours and I have just come up empty

I'm wondering if anyone can possibly point me in the right direction of how to accomplish this in wordpress 2.6+.

Thanks all!

Travis

 

Is it that you want Only One post from a Particular category appear on homepage or Display a single, latest post from any category on homepage?
Here is the code to do it >

<?php $recent = new WP_Query("cat=CATEGORY NUMBERshowposts=1"); while($recent->have_posts()) : $recent->the_post();?>
				<li><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></li>
				<?php endwhile; ?>

Code (markup):

Replace CATEGORY NUMBER , with the catgory number from which you want the post to be displayed on home page.

If you have any doubts regarding this, let me knw

 

Hi,
You can control it through the wordpress admin panel. It can be done thourgh settings -> Blog pages show at most (make it 1 instead of 10).

Thanks
imphp

 

And if I just want it to be the latest post, the most recent post then leave CATEGORY NUMBER blank?


The default settings where you set it to 1 does not work because then the blog will only display 1 post no matter what the user is trying to do so the user cannot see all posts from say January.


Thank you again and look forward to your reply

Travis

 

You can't control it through the wordpress admin panel. Setting your blog reading option to 1 can't work, just set to 2 posts/minimum (Blog pages show at most 2 posts not 1)

Edit your index.php (home page/main index template) and add this (replace default code)

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

Code (markup):

replace with

<?php if (have_posts()) : ?>
<?php
    $recentPosts = new WP_Query();
    $recentPosts->query('showposts=1');
?>
<?php while ($recentPosts->have_posts()) : $recentPosts->the_post(); ?>

Code (markup):

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Thanks