Direct link to first post in category

  • Is there a way to set it so that when a user clicks on a category link it takes the user to the first post in the category (i.e. instead of going to https://www.website.com/category/ it goes directly to https://www.website.com/category/LatestPost)?

    I have it set so only one post appears at most per page, which means going to the main category page is pointless. Although it seems trivial, this means that my next_post_link & previous_post_link don’t appear until the user clicks on the post’s title, finally getting to the single post.

    Thanks for any suggestions…

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  • did you find it out? i am also interested in this

    I’m very interested in this one, too.

    Untested but give this a try… 

    <?php $postslist = get_posts('category=5&numberposts=1&order=DESC&orderby=post_date');
     foreach ($postslist as $post) :
     setup_postdata($post); ?>
   <li><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>">Work</a></li>
<?php endforeach; ?>
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