It sounds like your question was answered in an older post here:
http://wordpress.org/support/topic/145133?replies=11
Look at the last post. However, I tried to do that with a blog I have and it doesn’t seem to work for version 2.7.1.
Hi,
Please check with this in wp-admin/edit-page.php :
wp(“post_type=page&orderby=menu_order&what_to_show=posts$post_status_q&posts_per_page=-1&posts_per_archive_page=-1&order=asc”);
Thanks,
Shane G.
No, that is NOT it. That setting changes the number of posts on the site pages but NOT in the ADMIN, as stressed by the original poster – hence the all caps on the word ADMIN. Please read the original question carefully as the original poster knew how to do what you told them, but there is no simple setting to change how many are displayed on the admin side.
admin/edit-pages.php
line 190
$per_page is set to 20
Change that and You’re goog to go.
For me it was line 823 of wp-admin/includes/post.php, and for some reason it works when I change:
$posts_per_page = 40;
but if I try:
$posts_per_page = 100;
The page breaks. Any ideas why?
I edited wp-admin/includes/post.php
I edited line 805@
wp("post_type=post&what_to_show=posts$post_status_q&posts_per_page=15&order=$order&orderby=$orderby");
and line 841@:
$q['posts_per_page'] = 15;
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If you change both numbers to the number of posts you want to view, it should work. I’ve tested it live on a 2.7.1 WP blog with 100, then 150, then 250 posts per page. I tried to get 1500 posts per page but that crashed the admin. 999 posts per page works. Best to find the number that suits you, 1000 may not be the maximum.
Hope that helps.
You can change this in 2.8 under screen options when viewing posts..
So no changes to core files required for those of you using the latest version..
t31os_ said: You can change this in 2.8 under screen options when viewing posts. So no changes to core files required for those of you using the latest version.
I’m using WP v2.8.6 and it seems to be broken… I had gone in to increase the number of posts in the POSTS > EDIT SCREEN OPTIONS subpanel and now I see NOTHING on the /WP-ADMIN/EDIT.PHP page!!!
I had increased from the default 20 posts to 400 and the resulting refresh draws a blank page. Where and how can I fix this? What, if any, is the limit for the number of posts for this function?
Thanks @t31os_ there it is. Nice.
