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1. burpen
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Changing the query string to exclude a certain category from the home page works for me, but it seems as though this makes the "posts per page" parameter more of a "maximum posts per page" parameter.

   For example, if I'm excluding category X from my home page, I query for 5 posts per page, and 4 of my 5 most recent posts are in category X, then only one post (the only post that isn't in category X) displays on the home page. Likewise, the "older posts" pages display a maximum of 5 posts per page rather than simply 5 posts per page.

   Is there any way to query for posts in such a way that my category X articles do not add to the posts per page count? I would like to see exactly 5 posts per page on my home page, obviously excepting pages where I have less than 5 posts not in category X.

2. burpen
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Oops, semi-misstated title for this topic. Should have been "exactly 5 posts per page"...

3. henkholland
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   1. What is your number of posts setting under Dasboard/Settings/Reading?

   I am using this for somethng similar:

   <ul>
   <?php query_posts('category_id=#&showposts=#');?>
   <?php $posts = get_posts('category=3,9&numberposts=5&offset=0');
   	foreach ($posts as $post) : start_wp(); ?>
   <li><h5><a href="<?php echo get_permalink() ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h5></li>
   <li><div class = "shortlist">
   <?php the_excerpt_rereloaded('11','---&raquo;&raquo;','no','plain','no'); ?>
   </div></li>
   <?php endforeach; ?>
   </ul>

   This includes categories 3 and 9 and shows 5 posts ; the_excerpts could be the_content offcourse.
   When you set numberposts to 0 it uses the number set under Reading.

4. burpen
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   I think I fixed it. I wanted to exclude multiple categories but I was passing the parameter to query_posts like so:
   $posts = query_posts($query_string . "&cat=-35-21-73");

   This was being discarded as an invalid parameter. I was getting all posts and filtering out the categories later on, so I never caught that my query_posts was failing. I really needed it to look like:
   $posts = query_posts($query_string . "&cat=-35,-21,-73");

5. lividinstruments
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Where do you put this query?

6. burpen
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   @lividinstruments: Put it in your Loop. Look under the "Exclude Posts From Some Category" section in that link for an example.

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