Hi, I am currently developing a site based around wordpress (1.3a, from the nightlies) that has a single post on the front page. I also want to have 10 posts per page for categories and archive pages.
Currently, to achieve that I have to set the posts per page to be 10, and just don't use all of the wordpress loop on the home page (checking it with is_home()). This works, except for two problems.
Firstly, the previous / next links (generated by posts_nav_link()) will skip 9 posts when the go to the second page.
Secondly, it must be slightly inefficient to get 10 posts out of the DB and then discard 9 of them. I would quite like to fix that.
Does anyone have any ideas for a solution to this.
Thanks,
Andrew Brehaut
Single Post Homepages in 1.3a (23 posts)
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brehaut
Posted 4 years ago # -
Try this plugin. You'll need the latest nighly.
<?php
/*
Plugin Name: Custom Posts Per Page
Version: 1.0
Plugin URI: http://wordpress.org/#
Description: Change the number of posts per page displayed for different page types.
Author: Ryan Boren
Author URI: http://boren.nu/
*/
$num_posts_on_home = 1;
function custom_posts_per_page($query_string) {
global $num_posts_on_home;
$query = new WP_Query();
$query->parse_query($query_string);
if ($query->is_home) {
if ($query_string != '') {
$query_string .= '&';
}
$query_string .= "posts_per_page=$num_posts_on_home";
}
// Category example.
// else if ($query->is_category) {
// if ($query_string != '') {
// $query_string .= '&';
// }
// $query_string .= "posts_per_page=$num_posts_in_category";
// }
return $query_string;
}
add_filter('query_string', 'custom_posts_per_page');
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Posted 4 years ago #Cheers, thats just the sort of thing i was looking for.
i made one slight change to the 'if is_home' section, so that it will replace the existing posts_per_page rather than adding a second (which was getting ignored).
if you care, here is the code:
if ($query->is_home) {
if (preg_match("/posts_per_page=/", $query_string)) {
$query_string = preg_replace("/posts_per_page=[0-9]*/"
,"posts_per_page=$num_posts_on_home"
,$query_string);
} else {
if ($query_string != '') {
$query_string .= '&';
}
$query_string .= "posts_per_page=$num_posts_on_home";
}
}
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Chad_Coleman
Posted 4 years ago #Does that code go into the plugins folder under wp-content?
Or do you paste it into the index somewhere?? -
rboren, how would/could I adapt that for posts-by-author?
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davidprince
Posted 4 years ago #Wow.. It took me forever to find this but thanks brehaut and rboren this is exactly what I had been looking for and works like a charm!!
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dtweney
Posted 3 years ago #This post works great -- thanks, Ryan! However, I've noticed one oddity -- whenever this plugin is activated, the WP admin pages start acting funny. Specifically, pages don't appear completely after taking an action such as saving a new post or modifying a template -- instead, I often get a blank HTML document instead of the WP admin interface. The site itself works fine; it's just the admin interface that is going screwy, and even that works--it's just not re-displaying the interface after taking action.
Any ideas out there why this is happening, or how to fix it?
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slbc
Posted 3 years ago #This is EXACTLY what I needed! Works perfectly. Thank you so much! :)
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ColourDreamer
Posted 3 years ago #Does this plugin mess with feeds? Check this out: http://forums.feedburner.com/viewtopic.php?p=4301#4301
My feeds no longer work. I don't know why. But I added this plugin around that time.
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Posted 3 years ago #The reverse order makes sense for most cases, but on the site I'm suing it, I'd like the posts to show in default order. Is there a way to do that with this plugin?
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link92
Posted 3 years ago #Is there anyway to have the plugin affect only page 1?
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Posted 3 years ago #Hmm... Changed the if to:
if ($query->is_home && (!isset($_GET['paged']) || $_GET['paged'] == 1)) {But I'm now missing the 2nd and 3rd posts.
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Awesome plugin! Works great! Thanks guys... =)
spencerp
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laxstar2
Posted 2 years ago #does this work in WP2???
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Hi, I was also wondering if this works in WP 2.
Thanks!
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Nevermind...tried it, and it's working.
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Sorry it took awhile to reply Hilary.. =( Was watching some movies tonight..anyway, yeah it's working just fine on my WP Version 2.0. =)Reminds me, I gotta reset the amount on my index page again...maybe lower it a bit lol..
spencerp
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TDAlexander
Posted 2 years ago #I'm trying to modify this slightly so that I can have a specific category display only a single post per page. To do so I've added:
if (is_category('9')) {
$num = $posts_per['photoblog'];
} else {
$num = $posts_per['category'];
}under the elsif for the
$query->is_category, but it seems to be ignoring it. What am I missing?Thanks,
-Tim
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Diplo
Posted 2 years ago #Hello,
Do you think it's possible to adapt it so that it displays only the last posts per category on index.php? How would the code look like?
Thanks,
Diplo
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crayola
Posted 2 years ago #Thanks so much.
It's exxxxxactly what I was looking for!
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landun
Posted 2 years ago #If you're going to use the plugin for categories, you need to define $num_posts_in_category and register it as a global variable.
$num_posts_on_home = 1;
$num_posts_in_category = 20;
function custom_posts_per_page($query_string) {
global $num_posts_on_home;
global $num_posts_in_category;
$query = new WP_Query();
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kalico
Posted 2 years ago #This looks like a great plugin, but it lacks any explicit directions. Can someone please explain exactly HOW to use it? I have uploaded it and activated it....now what?
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If the development work on this plugin has been completed, someone should introduce the plugin by documenting the installation procedures and a brief overview/demo of what it actually accomplishes.
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