post-page: reference to parent page?

Question

i'm having a problem with wordpress and the post-page: my web has several pages like: news, projects, links each page is displaying posts of the corresponding category.

my question: when clicking on a post's detail, it will execute always the same script (post-detail.php). now i want to implement a "back"-link which jumps page to the referring page. how can this be done? is it possible having several post-pages?

thanks

Answer 1

You can do that:

//add reff to query vars to hold the referring page ID
add_filter('query_vars', 'my_query_vars');

function my_query_vars($vars) {
    // add movies_view to the valid list of variables
    $new_vars = array('reff');
    $vars = $new_vars + $vars;
    return $vars;
}

then add ?reff=<?php echo $post->ID; ?> to your "post's detail" link

and on your "post-detail.php" you can create a back link using that query var

<a href="<?php echo get_permalink(get_query_var('reff')); ?>">Go Back</a>

and as for having several post-pages take a look at:

How to quickly switch custom post type singular template