Adding more posts to the loop

Not too sure what you mean by “add a post into the loop”, but look at Function_Reference/get_post.

Most templates use if(have_posts()) : to check for posts, then use a while statement to go through all the posts by checking have_posts() and calling the_post() each time through the loop.

The have_post() for the page I’m loading is empty, so no posts are displayed, because the query is empty. I want to insert another post into the query, so there is a post… Or if 2 posts are found, there will be 3 posts (The 2 WordPress found and the one I added.)

I can’t use get_post(), because It’s important that it is done through the normal post loading method.

Maybe I could add to $this->$posts and increase $this->$post_count, but I’m not sure how to refer to that correctly or add to it.

I’d love a way to inject a post into the loop as well. The only alternative approach that I know of is to create a fake post in the database and use the where actions to filter it out.

Then you want to understand why your query has ‘nothing’.

Might review the template tag, query_posts(), and The Loop.

Thanks MichaelH,

My problem was solved by using query_posts("cat=1&showposts=1");.