Permalink function not working?

  • Hi Friends…

    This is my first post on the forum…so sorry if it’s a wrong category…

    I have configured my blog smoothly so far…and trying to make some changes to the theme templates…

    I want to display one category of posts (News) as a separate page, and also display separate links section for New and Non-News posts on left sidebar…

    This is what I’ve written to display links to all but News items (category=7)…

    <div class="box" id="featured">
<h3>Recent Posts</h3>
<ul>
<?php
      $myposts = get_posts('numberposts=5&category=-7'); //GET RECENT POSTS APART FROM NEWS CATEGORY

      foreach($myposts as $post) :?>
        <li><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></li>
      <?php endforeach; ?>
</ul>
<div class="cap"></div>
</div>

    Now, the_title() gives me correct titles for posts apart from News…but the_permalink() gives me blog home page… ??

    I also tried with get_permalink($post->ID), but same result…

    What is my mistake? ??

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  • Moderator Samuel Wood (Otto)

    (@otto42)

    www.remarpro.com Admin

    Bad way to do it. Make a real Loop using a query instead of trying to use get_posts.

    <?php
$myquery = new WP_Query('showposts=5&cat=-7');
while ($myquery->have_posts()) : $myquery->the_post();
?>
<li><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></li>
<?php endwhile; ?>
    Thread Starter sumedhinamdar

    (@sumedhinamdar)

    Why is that a bad way? ?? …I have done it like shown in a code snippet in the documentation itself…

    What is meant by “real loop”?

    Why does the_title() work and the_permalink() doesn’t?

    What documentation I’ll need to read to understand when to use which API, and when not?

    I am perplexed! ??

    Thread Starter sumedhinamdar

    (@sumedhinamdar)

    Strange…

    The second section that is just below this one, displays the News links…

    Once I make above changes to the first part (category=-7) as told by you, the second part works correctly the previous way, i.e.

    $myposts = get_posts('numberposts=5&category=7'); //GET RECENT POSTS IN NEWS CATEGORY
      foreach($myposts as $post) :?>
        <li><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></li>
      <?php endforeach; ?>

    works perfectly fine…

    So, the first part is making some side effect…does this have something to do with the_post() call…I read documentation for these API’s, but couldn’t figure out much…

    Moderator Samuel Wood (Otto)

    (@otto42)

    www.remarpro.com Admin

    Did you even try the code I posted for you? It does work.

    Thread Starter sumedhinamdar

    (@sumedhinamdar)

    Yup…

    That’s what I am saying…

    It does work…and the strange part is, my kind of code works in second section (category=7) if I use your code for the first section (category=-7)…

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