Let’s say you slice a website and need a nicely looking block in a sidebar with one recent post from certain category. Like in case with this one below: Daily Style Quote.
Logically following you need to run “the loop” and ask WordPress for just one post from just this particular category.
Here we go:
<div id="dailyStyleQuote"> <div id="quoteText"> <?php query_posts('category_name=Daily Style Quote&posts_per_page=1'); ?> <?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); the_content(''); ?> </div> <div id="quoteBottom"> <?php the_time('l, F j, Y'); ?> <?php $category_id = get_cat_ID( 'Daily Style Quote' ); $category_link = get_category_link( $category_id ); ?> <a href="<?php echo $category_link; ?>">archive</a> </div> <?php endwhile; ?> </div>