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Lets say I have weblog named news and a custom field named special. Some portion of the entries are marked as special, how do I show only the most recent entry marked as special?

{exp:weblog:entries weblog="news" orderby="date" offset="1"}

something like…... special=“yes” ??

You’d use a conditional…something like this probably…

{exp:weblog:entries weblog="news" orderby="date limit=“1” }
{if special == "yes"}
your weblog fields go here
{/if}
{/exp:weblog:entries}

That code is not working.

I’m assuming this is because the first entry is not special, the if returns false and it displays nothing. However, limit=1 is satisfied and expression engine moves on.

Ahhh yes, that’s a problem…Off the top of my head…how bout this…

{exp:weblog:entries weblog="news" orderby="date"}
{if special == "yes" AND count == 1}
your weblog fields go here
{/if}
{/exp:weblog:entries}

Took the limit out. Should get one with a yes I would think (hope) 😊
(May need quotes around that 1 - not sure)

count will increase by one even when the if returns false…  so this doesnt work

{exp:weblog:entries weblog="news" orderby="date"}
{assign_variable:found="no"}
{if found == "no" && special == "yes"}
{importance} {found} {title}

{/if}
{/exp:weblog:entries}

... this would work but I can’t get found to work correctly in the if statement

Ok, how bout sorting by the custom field “special” so they get listed first, then limiting to 1? This would depend on the values in the special field I would guess though.
Or instead of using a custom field you could probably use a custom status and limit your weblog:entries tag to those and limit as 1.
Many ways to skin the cat.

I simplified the problem as much as possible… in actuality special yes/no is importance and rated on a scale of 1-10…. So its not that easy, like if I wanted the most recent article with importance of 6.