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1. tdellaringa
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #

   It looks like both my archives and my categories both use the archive.php template, which is great because I want them to look and work the same.

   The problem is setting reading # of posts in reading options affects both the home page and the archives. I only want one post to show up on the home page, but 10 on the cat/archive pages. But there is only one setting.

   I know I could make custom templates for each category but that seems like going about it the wrong way when I already have perfectly good templates in place.

   I thought there was a tag or conditional statement I could use in a template to control/override that specific page and determine how many posts I want to show up (I thought I did this in previous versions of WP)

   My searches have come up empty in the docs though - does such a thing exist?

2. Jeremy Clark
   Moderator
   Posted 4 years ago #

   Set your reading options to 1 then on the archives.php file look for this code
   <?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>

   Add this before that
   <?php query_posts('showposts=10'); ?>

3. tdellaringa
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #

   Perfect! That was it - thank you so much.

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