Display one post per page

put $posts_per_page = 1; at the top of the page also

ever tried to set post to display to 1 in options ?!

You don’t have to change the foreach statement for it to work (that bit of code you quoted is called the loop in word press!) The first bit of code you have should be working … do you have a link we can look at?

Yes. Here’s what I’m running now:
https://www.blainekendall.com/wordpress/phototemplate.php/archives/category/hobbies/photography/photos/
Look at the php code: https://www.blainekendall.com/wordpress/phototemplate.php.txt
I don’t want to set posts to display=1 in the options because I’m trying to use 2 templates, yet a single installation(&single set of tables) and I want the default installation to still display multiple posts. So I’m trying to create a separate single post look byjust specifying a second template page.
I think it should just display the last post in the posts array, yet i can’t figure out how to specify this in php code.

I’m having the same problem… I can’t get it to work as well. Any ideas anyone?

I use this to get one post per page.
Options > Reading 1 posts-paged.
In index.php:
<?php endforeach; else: ?>
<?php _e('Sorry, no posts matched your criteria.'); ?>
<?php endif; ?>
<?php posts_nav_link('::','&laquo;Newer', 'Older&raquo;'); ?>
</div>
The second last line there shows the navigation.

podz, my problem is limiting posts on a different category. If you look at my site you can see the default category has been reset to ‘general’. So the rules in the Options don’t apply to this category.
Is there a way to set the post per page on other categories?

Also… I tried adding this bit of code at the top of my page: $posts_per_page = 5; but it doesn’t seem to do anything at all.

This might help:
https://ethanneuen.com/2006/wordpress-home-display-1-post.html

Yep, I looking to do something very similar. I only have 1 post per page and this is set under Admin but I want the last x posts to display if someone chooses a category.

Ideas?

Easiest solution I’ve found is to use the custom query string plugin.

Agreeing with miklb: https://mattread.com/projects/wp-plugins/custom-query-string-plugin/

makes it very easy.

And found the answer at Ethan’s URL above. Should have looked before I posted.

Now I just need to limit the post listing to title and first 150 characters or so. If anyone has any pointers it would be greatly appreciated.

search the codex for the_excerpt or have a look at this beauty: https://mattread.com/projects/wp-plugins/custom-query-string-plugin/