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Ian Dunn on "Increase default pagination value"

Ian Dunn — Sun, 02 Dec 2012 18:25:58 +0000

I already tried that, but couldn't get it working. I might be able to if I spent more time on it, but the method (get_items_per_page() or something like that) in the WP_List_Table class only has a filter on the $option variable, not on the $default one. So, you can set the default if you know all the $option keys in advance, but with CPTs and maybe some other situations, you don't, so you'd have to do things like first grabbing all the CPT slugs, then looping through an array to add a filter callback for each, etc.

There's something else going on w/ it too, because even when I temporarily changed that function to always return 100, I still got 20 items.

Ipstenu (Mika Epstein) on "Increase default pagination value"

Ipstenu (Mika Epstein) — Sun, 02 Dec 2012 18:01:20 +0000

I wonder if you could whip up a plugin for that (mu plugin).

Ian Dunn on "Increase default pagination value"

Ian Dunn — Sun, 02 Dec 2012 16:42:49 +0000

Right, not on every page of every screen, but on every screen (posts, pages, custom post types, media, users, comments). I work on a dozen or two new installs a year, so it's just not practical to manually set it on every screen, on every install.

Ipstenu (Mika Epstein) on "Increase default pagination value"

Ipstenu (Mika Epstein) — Sun, 02 Dec 2012 02:19:10 +0000

I can manually set a higher default value via the Screen Options dialog, but I have to do that for each screen, on every site I build.

Every screen? You mean pages and posts, and just once. It's supposed to save between pages.

Ian Dunn on "Increase default pagination value"

Ian Dunn — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 23:41:53 +0000

I think that the default value of 20 items per page on the list table screens (posts, pages, media, users, CPTs, etc) is too low, and makes the user experience frustrating. It's annoying that I have to click over and over, and each time load a whole new page, just to browse for things that could have easily been displayed on the first page load.

I can manually set a higher default value via the Screen Options dialog, but I have to do that for each screen, on every site I build.

I can search instead of browse, but that still results in another page load, and then I have to dig through the results, where the sort order isn't as intuitive as it is when browsing.

I think somewhere between 40 and 75 would be a much more reasonable default value, and it'd also be nice to make the default value filterable, so that a plugin could easily change it site-wide if people want to raise or lower it.

A different alternative would be to use an infinite scroll, but I think that from a UX standpoint, those are even worse than pagination.