Title: Sidebar Problem
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Sidebar Problem

 *  [royng](https://wordpress.org/support/users/royng/)
 * (@royng)
 * [20 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sidebar-problem-1/)
 * 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](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kafkaesqui/)
 * (@kafkaesqui)
 * [20 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sidebar-problem-1/#post-257699)
 * 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](https://wordpress.org/support/users/royng/)
 * (@royng)
 * [20 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sidebar-problem-1/#post-257721)
 * 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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 * 2 replies
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [royng](https://wordpress.org/support/users/royng/)
 * Last activity: [20 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sidebar-problem-1/#post-257721)
 * Status: not resolved

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