Joomla 2.5 latest article from a category link

Question

I would like to create a menu item with dynamic links to the latest article published in a given category.

I don't want to use the default category blog link because I want the link to leed straight to the article page and avoid duplicate content.

hope this is comprehensible, thx for helping me with this issue.

Answer 1

There are 2 ways to accomplish this, one with code, one without.

The no code method involves replacing the standard Joomla com_content with a CCK extension that has a latest item functionality built in - I know K2 has it for sure, there are likely others.

The other method would require you to create a new model/view/menu item that only pulls the latest published article. This would actually not be terribly difficult since you could basically copy most of the category model and use most of the article view to come up with what you need. The changes are a little too involved to post here however.