[Closed] Single result with pagination

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[laurieL]

I am trying to:

Display a single result from a custom post type ("Client Videos") along with thumbnail navigation for the next/previous 2 videos.

I can pull the single video (sorted by 'video order' meta) but I am perplexed at how to include thumbnails from the 2 previous and 2 successive posts to be used as navigation.

If you could point me in the right direction, that would be very helpful!

thanks much!

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You can use get_adjacent_post() Word Press API function for this, but you may need to create a custom short code to retrieve this, like:

add_shortcode("wpv-adjacent-post", "wpv_adjacent_post");

function wpv_adjacent_pst($atts) {
	$dir = $atts["dir"];
	
	if($dir == "next") {
		$adj_post = get_adjacent_post( true, '', false, 'category_name' );
	}
	
	if($dir == "prev") {
		$adj_post = get_adjacent_post( true, '', true, 'category_name' );
	}
	
	if ( !empty( $adj_post ) ) {
		// You can do further processing here
		// i.e. retrieve featured image and post meta
		// And can format the output accordingly.
	
		return $adj_post->ID;
	}
	
	return "";
}

Then you can use the short code in the loop of your view as:

[wpv-adjacent-post dir="prev"]
...
[wpv-adjacent-post dir="next"]

For more information on get_adjacent_post() please see http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_adjacent_post