Title: Problems with single post
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Problems with single post

 *  Resolved [ucarmetin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ucarmetin/)
 * (@ucarmetin)
 * [15 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problems-with-single-post/)
 * Hi!
 * I’m working on a customized theme for a magazine. All works fine but while working
   on single post template I got some serious problems. Here is a list of problems
   and additional details about them.
 * 1- As you can see it [here](http://www.twitpic.com/328v5v), a list of latest 
   news on the website are displayed in a sidebar next to post content. I’m using
   default loop to get the content of single post. To get a list of latest posts
   with thumbnails, I included the following code in the single.php file. _Note,
   this loop is within the default loop of single post._
 *     ```
       <?php
         $small_thumb_h_entry = 96;
         $small_thumb_w_entry = 196;
         $ppp_entry = 5;
         $cat_news_entry = array( 21,17,26,6); // Category IDs
         $args_entry = array( 'category__in' => $cat_news_entry,
       					   'posts_per_page' => $ppp_entry );
           $my_query_entry = new WP_Query($args_entry); if($my_query_entry->have_posts()) : ?>
       		<div id="news-block-entry">
       			<?php while ($my_query_entry->have_posts()) : $my_query_entry->the_post(); ?>
       	       		<?php $small_placeholder_entry = '<a href="'.get_permalink().'" title="'. get_the_title() .'"><img width="'.$small_thumb_w_entry.'" height="'.$small_thumb_h_entry.'" src="' . get_bloginfo('template_url') . '/images/empty_small_entry.jpg" alt="' . get_the_title() .'" /></a>';	?>
       						<div class="item">
       						<?php if ( woo_image('return=true') ) { woo_image('key=image&width='. $small_thumb_w_entry .'&height=' . $small_thumb_h_entry); } ?>
       						<span class="title"><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="<?php the_title(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></span>
       						</div><!-- /.item -->
              		<?php endwhile; ?>
              		<div class="fix"></div>
       		</div><!-- /#news-block-entry -->
       	<?php endif; ?>
       ```
   
 * However as you can see in the screenshot, the post that is displayed on the page
   appears in the latest news list. In other words, the post is duplicated. So the
   question is that “How could I avoid?”
 * 2- This one is about comments. For a reason I’ve not figured out yet, since I
   added this latest news sidebar to my code, the comments which belong to the latest
   post listed in latest news column are displayed on every single post. Any idea
   how to resolve that?
 * Thanks for your help in advance.
    Cheers!

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 *  [Michael](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alchymyth/)
 * (@alchymyth)
 * [15 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problems-with-single-post/#post-1745658)
 * 1.
 * there are methods described in
    [http://codex.wordpress.org/The_Loop](http://codex.wordpress.org/The_Loop)
   how to avoid duplicate posts;
 * 2.
 * try and add `<?php wp_reset_query(); ?>` after you posted code snippet.
 *  Thread Starter [ucarmetin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ucarmetin/)
 * (@ucarmetin)
 * [15 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problems-with-single-post/#post-1745873)
 * Hey alchymth, thanks for the code hint and reference url. I’ve resolved both 
   issues. But now there are new issues I’m having trouble with.
 * The first one is that all thumbnails that are generated by nested loop have the
   permalink of the page that’s displayed in the full post area. While thumbnails
   give me this problem, there is no problem with the link shown below thumbnails.
   They correctly link to the posts. Any idea or cure you have to resolve this problem?
 * The second thing is that, as I set the posts_per_page = 5, if there is a duplicate
   post case, there are only 4 posts listed in the latest news sidebar. However,
   duplicate post function works properly and thus 5 posts are displayed when there
   is no duplicate post. Is there any code hint or reference url that you can suggest
   me to use / have a look in order to make sure that there are always 5 posts shown
   regardless of there is a duplicate post or not?
 * Thanks a lot for your assistance.
    Regards.
 *  Thread Starter [ucarmetin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ucarmetin/)
 * (@ucarmetin)
 * [15 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problems-with-single-post/#post-1745874)
 * Btw, the new nested loop code looks like this now:
 *     ```
       <?php
       				  $small_thumb_h_entry = 96;
       				  $small_thumb_w_entry = 196;
       				  $ppp_entry = 5;
       				  $cat_news_entry = array( 21,17,26,6);
       				  $args_entry = array( 'category__in' => $cat_news_entry, 'posts_per_page' => $ppp_entry);
       				  $my_query_entry = new WP_Query($args_entry);  if($my_query_entry->have_posts()) : ?>
   
                         <div id="news-block-entry">
                         <?php while ($my_query_entry->have_posts()) : $my_query_entry->the_post();
       				  if($post->ID == $do_not_duplicate) continue; ?>
                         <?php $small_placeholder_entry = '<a href="'.get_permalink().'" title="'. get_the_title() .'"><img width="'.$small_thumb_w_entry.'" height="'.$small_thumb_h_entry.'" src="' . get_bloginfo('template_url') . '/images/empty_small_entry.jpg" alt="' . get_the_title() .'" /></a>';	?>
                         <div class="item">
   
       					<?php if ( woo_image('return=true') ) {?>
                           <a href="<?php get_permalink(); ?>">
                           <?php woo_image('link=img&key=image&width='. $small_thumb_w_entry .'&height=' . $small_thumb_h_entry); } ?>
                           </a>
   
                           <span class="title"><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="<?php the_title(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></span>
                         </div><!-- /.item -->
       				  <?php endwhile; ?>
                         <div class="fix"></div>
                         </div><!-- /#news-block-entry --> 
   
       				  <?php endif; ?>
       ```
   
 * Besides the addition I’ve made it to the beginning of the main loop is as following:
 *     ```
       <?php if (have_posts()) : $count = 0; ?>
       	<?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); $count++;
       	$do_not_duplicate = $post->ID; ?>
       ```
   
 *  [Michael](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alchymyth/)
 * (@alchymyth)
 * [15 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problems-with-single-post/#post-1745875)
 * **re ‘image link’:**
    your image link is generated using ‘get_permalink()’:
 *     ```
       <?php $small_placeholder_entry = '<a href="'.get_permalink().'" title="'. get_the_title() .'"><img width="'.$small_thumb_w_entry.'" height="'.$small_thumb_h_entry.'" src="' . get_bloginfo('template_url') . '/images/empty_small_entry.jpg" alt="' . get_the_title() .'" /></a>';	?>
                         <div class="item">
       ```
   
 * (not absolutely sure, but i would try and use ‘$post->ID’ as the parameter for‘
   get_permalink()’ –
    [http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_permalink](http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_permalink))
 * while the title link uses ‘the_permalink()’:
 * `<span class="title"><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="
   <?php the_title(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></span>`
 * [http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/the_permalink](http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/the_permalink)
 * and in this part:
 *     ```
       <?php if ( woo_image('return=true') ) {?>
                           <a href="<?php get_permalink(); ?>">
                           <?php woo_image('link=img&key=image&width='. $small_thumb_w_entry .'&height=' . $small_thumb_h_entry); } ?>
                           </a>
       ```
   
 * where the code is using:
    `<a href="<?php get_permalink(); ?>">`
 * which would output an empty link, as the ‘echo’ function for ‘get_permalink()’
   is missing.
 * if this line is important, try and change it to:
    `<a href="<?php echo get_permalink(
   $post->ID); ?>">`
 * **re ‘number of posts with duplicate’:**
 * the method you are using:
 * `if($post->ID == $do_not_duplicate) continue;`
 * simply jumps over the duplicate post, i.e. does not show it – but does so **after**
   the number of posts are selected.
 * there is this other method that will exclude duplicate posts **before **the number
   of posts are selected:
 * > Alternatively you can pass the entire $do_not_duplicate array to $wp_query 
   > and only entries that match your criteria will be returned:
   > <?php query_posts(array(‘post__not_in’=>$do_not_duplicate));
   >  if (have_posts()):
   > while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?> Note that instead a string, the query
   > parameter was an associative array, with post__not_in option.
 * [http://codex.wordpress.org/The_Loop#Multiple_Loops_in_Action](http://codex.wordpress.org/The_Loop#Multiple_Loops_in_Action)
 *  Thread Starter [ucarmetin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ucarmetin/)
 * (@ucarmetin)
 * [15 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problems-with-single-post/#post-1745896)
 * Hey alchymyth,
    you’re truly a genius and life saver. I don’t know how to thank
   you. You saved me a lot of time by your comprehensive and easy to understand 
   replies.
 * All the problems are fixed now and everything works right as rain.
    Thank you
   so much. Regards.

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