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rjmccollam

Hi All,

I have a page on a WP site I am doing that contains all posts form the "Blog" Category, but I don't know how to get the previous post link at the bottom of the post.

I am using this code to display the posts from the category:

<?php $recent = new WP_Query(); ?>
<?php $recent->query('cat=3&showposts=4'); ?>
<?php while($recent->have_posts()) : $recent->the_post(); ?>
<h2><a href=\"<?php the_permalink() ?>\" rel=\"bookmark\"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h2>
<?php include (TEMPLATEPATH . '/inc/meta.php' ); ?>
<?php the_content(); ?>
<?php endwhile; ?>
<?php posts_nav_link(); ?>

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Thanks for your help!

jamy_za

Add this below your code:

<?php if (  $wp_query->max_num_pages > 1 ) : ?>
				<div id=\"nav-below\" class=\"navigation\">
					<div class=\"nav-previous\"><?php next_posts_link( __( '<span class=\"meta-nav\">&larr;</span> Older posts', 'twentyten' ) ); ?></div>
					<div class=\"nav-next\"><?php previous_posts_link( __( 'Newer posts <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;</span>', 'twentyten' ) ); ?></div>
				</div><!-- #nav-below -->
<?php endif; ?>

rjmccollam

Doesn't look like this did anything.

betzster

If you're on a single post, as in single.php, try this:


&lt;?php next_post_link('&lt;li class=&quot;prev-icn&quot;&gt;%link&lt;/li&gt;'); ?&gt;
&lt;?php previous_post_link('&lt;li class=&quot;next-icn&quot;&gt;%link&lt;/li&gt;'); ?&gt;

If you're on an archive page, a listing of posts, try this:


&lt;?php next_posts_link('&lt;span class=&quot;prev-icn&quot;&gt;Next&lt;/span&gt;'); ?&gt;
&lt;?php previous_posts_link('&lt;span class=&quot;next-icn&quot;&gt;Previous&lt;/span&gt;'); ?&gt;

You can obviously change the argument here to get different results. I'd check the codex for what you can pass to these things.

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