Title: previous_post / next_post Parameter problems
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# previous_post / next_post Parameter problems

 *  [misterx](https://wordpress.org/support/users/misterx/)
 * (@misterx)
 * [22 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/previous_post-next_post-parameter-problems/)
 * From the documentation, it seemed to me that with something like that:
    `<?php
   previous_post('previous', ' ', 'yes', 'no', 1) ?>` I would get a link that said“
   previous” and linked to previous post. But looks like if I remove the % from 
   the 1st parameter it won’t link anymore. If I put something like that in the 
   1st parameter: ‘previous: %’ then I get a link including the name of the entry
   preceded by “previous: ” (that’s what I’m trying to avoid, I just want “previous”
   and “next” links) so the second parameter seems kinda redundant. I feel really
   stupid ’cause I’m probably totally missing the point here…

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 *  [antifuse](https://wordpress.org/support/users/antifuse/)
 * (@antifuse)
 * [22 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/previous_post-next_post-parameter-problems/#post-31804)
 * Check the [Wiki template tags page](http://wiki.wordpress.org/index.php/TemplateTags#Postx20.tags)
   to see how the previous_post function works… but basically the first parameter
   is just the format of the pre-link string, and it replaces % with the link… while
   the second parameter is the actual text of the link. So if you wanted the link
   itself to be just Previous, you would do the following:
    ` <?php previous_post('%','
   Previous ', 'yes', 'no', 1) ?>  Hope that helps!
 *  Thread Starter [misterx](https://wordpress.org/support/users/misterx/)
 * (@misterx)
 * [22 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/previous_post-next_post-parameter-problems/#post-31812)
 * Actually, you’re… wrong 🙂
    But you did give me the info I needed: the WIKI’s
   link. I’m definitely bookmarking it! What needed to be changed was the 3rd parameter(
   from “yes” to “no” that “Indicates wehther the title should be used in the link
   text.” It wasn’t clear in the documentation, but it was crystal clear in the 
   WIKI. on a side note, the category parameters don’t seem to work at all for me
   🙁 Thanks!! 🙂
 *  [antifuse](https://wordpress.org/support/users/antifuse/)
 * (@antifuse)
 * [22 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/previous_post-next_post-parameter-problems/#post-31831)
 * Hey, I was partly right! I just forgot about the title part 🙂

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 * Last activity: [22 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/previous_post-next_post-parameter-problems/#post-31831)
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