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noahgelman

In Wordpress, on the Single Post page, there is "Older Post" and "Newer Post" navigation links. It goes to the previous and next post. Is there a way to make sure those links skips over posts from a specific category?

TheDoc

No problem! Before the loop in your single.php, you'll want to add in something like this:

<?php query_posts('cat=-3'); ?>

Changing the number to the ID of the category you'd like to exclude.

noahgelman

@TheDoc, normally that would be the simple answer. But the Single Post page isn't a loop. And the "Older Post" and "Newer Post" are just straight Links. Here's the code to the page.

<?php
/**
 * The Template for displaying all single posts.
 *
 * @package WordPress
 * @subpackage Twenty_Eleven
 * @since Twenty Eleven 1.0
 */

get_header(); ?>
    <div id="content" role="main">

        <?php while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); ?>
        
            <?php get_template_part( 'content', 'single' ); ?>
            
            <nav id="nav-single">
                <span class="nav-previous"><?php previous_post_link( '%link', __( 'Previous Post', 'twentyeleven' ) ); ?></span>
                <span class="nav-next"><?php next_post_link( '%link', __( 'Next Post', 'twentyeleven' ) ); ?></span>
            </nav><!-- #nav-single -->                    

            <?php //comments_template( '', true ); ?>

        <?php endwhile; // end of the loop. ?>

    </div><!-- #content -->
         
<?php get_sidebar(); ?>
<?php get_footer(); ?>

The "get_template_part" line doesn't matter, it just fetches the Single Post html. What matters is that navigation that goes to the previous and next post. It takes all posts into account and I want it to ignore posts from a specific category

TheDoc

It certainly looks like a loop to me! Just put the query above your 'while' statement.

noahgelman

I tried putting it in and it started displaying the 5 most current posts that don't include that category. So I added "&showposts=1" to the remove category and so its just showing the most current post.

noahgelman

Thanks for the Help TheDoc.

I did a bit of reading the WP Codex (not sure why I didn't before) and apparently both "previous_post_link()" and "next_post_link()" have an option inside to exclude categories and to even keep the links limited to 1 category.

Man, wordpress has a ton of options :)

TheDoc

I didn't know that one either, sweet!

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