Sidebar Problem

  • royng

    (@royng)


    20 years, 9 months ago

    I am doing a design for my site and i do not get entries on my index page but on the sidebar i get the latest 2 entries with the first 25 words and a link to read on a entry but when i click on the entries page link, the page do not display the latest 2 post on the sidebar. I want it to show the post and on the sidebar show the other 2 posts how can can i get it done? below is the code to get the latest 2 post with the first 25 words


    <div id="update"><div class="updateheader"><strong>Updates</strong></div>
    <?php } ?>
    <?php if ( have_posts() ) : while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); ?>
    <?php $temp_query = $wp_query; ?>
    <?php $my_query = new WP_Query('category_name=special_cat&showposts=2'); ?>
    <?php while ($my_query->have_posts()) : $my_query->the_post(); ?>
    <?php endwhile; ?>
    <strong><?php the_title(); ?></strong><br>
    <small><?php the_time('F jS, Y') ?></small>
    <?php the_excerpt_reloaded(20); ?><br>
    <div class="updateheader"><strong><a>" rel="bookmark" title='Permanent Link to'>Read More</a><br></strong></div>
    <?php endwhile; else: ?>
    Sorry, no posts matched your criteria.
    <?php endif; ?>

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  • Kafkaesqui

    (@kafkaesqui)

    20 years, 9 months ago

    First, how does your sidebar work? Is it included on single post pages? Are there conditional tags (is_home() and such) defining when this “Updates” section is displayed?

    Second, you could *improve* the above code by removing the initial Loop (it’s not used). However, I don’t want to make recommendation on how to change it, as I’m unsure of a few things in your code:

    <?php } ?> What statement does this close?

    <?php $temp_query = $wp_query; ?> Where is this ever used?

    Thread Starter royng

    (@royng)

    20 years, 9 months ago

    ok clean it up abit the <?php } ?> is to close my other function (K2 theme about function) and if i remove the <?php if ( have_posts() ) : while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); ?> i will get an parse error and i using <?php get_sidebar(); ?> to get my sidebar and i am not using any conditional tags should i use those?

    I feel the problem is in my loop as when you view the post you are having 2 loops and the single post ends up in the sidebar and the second loop says Sorry, no posts matched your criteria.

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