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Linking directly to the latest post of a specific category?

Hi Drew,

Is it possible to pull into a page the latest blog post of a specific category? I'd like to have a link in the main navigation to a 'Designer of the Month' (which would be a blog post) that displays the 'full' post of most recent designer (i.e. no listing). I have a 'Designer of the Month' category setup in the blog app. Any pointers as to how I might do this.

Regards - Nick
Nick Loat

Nick Loat 0 points

  • 6 years ago
Drew McLellan

Drew McLellan 2638 points
Perch Support

6 years ago

Yes, filter by category, order by date in descending order and take just one result.
Nick Loat

Nick Loat 0 points

6 years ago

Hi Drew,

Got this working following your advice, however how do I pull in the associated comments and add a comments form? (not sure how I pull in the correct id)
Drew McLellan

Drew McLellan 2638 points
Perch Support

6 years ago

Both of those functions take either a postID or a postSlug to find the matching post. What does your code look like?
Nick Loat

Nick Loat 0 points

6 years ago

I'm using to get the post…

<?php 
            perch_blog_custom(array(
    'count' => 1,
    'sort' => 'postDateTime',
    'sort-order' => 'DESC',
    'category' => array('designer-of-the-month'),
    'template' => 'post.html',
));
    ?>

and then

<?php perch_blog_post_comments(perch_get('s')); ?>
<?php 
perch_blog_post_comment_form(perch_get('s'), array(
    'template' => 'comment_form.html',
)); 
?>

to get the comments and the form. However neither show up. I think its because the slug isn't being appended to the url
Drew McLellan

Drew McLellan 2638 points
Perch Support

6 years ago

Try:

$post = perch_blog_custom(array(
    'count' => 1,
    'sort' => 'postDateTime',
    'sort-order' => 'DESC',
    'category' => array('designer-of-the-month'),
    'template' => 'post.html',
    'skip-template' => true,
    'return-html' => true,
));

echo $post['html'];

and then

perch_blog_post_comments($post[0]['postID']);
Nick Loat

Nick Loat 0 points

6 years ago

…like a dream, many thanks Drew.