The only posts setting you have is in the same page and that is global (ie it affects all post listing pages). Anything else requires a custom query in the relevant theme theme template file.
http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/query_posts
http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/WP_Query
Hi, thanks for the response. I’m looking for it affect all the pages, so that I only have to edit that number inside the admin panel instead of going through every file and edit the same value. It seems as though there’s a separate global variable for the feeds. Right now, my blog shows 1 post per page and my feed is 10. I’m looking for that ’10’. Is it available. Thanks again!
It seems as though there’s a separate global variable for the feeds.
Correct. The settings for both the number of posts in your feed and on your blog pages are in Settings->Reading.
Is there a way to access that variable in other files I’m using in my theme. So in my other files, when I say:
query_posts('category_name=CAT&showposts=' . $GLOBAL_FEED_VARIABLE);
That way I don’t have to edit all the other files I’m using for other reason. I can just make the change in my admin panel instead. Thanks!
Create a function in functions.php that defines the number of posts per page and then call that function in the template files:
query_posts('category_name=CAT&showposts=' . my_post_num();
Then you only have to change one file to cascade the change across all of the relevant pages.
If you want to grab those settings from Settings->Reading within your code, perhaps something like this:
$my_posts_per_page = get_option( 'posts_per_page' );
$my_posts_per_feed = get_option( 'posts_per_rss' );
http://codex.wordpress.org/Option_Reference
Then to use it, of course:
query_posts( 'category_name=CAT&posts_per_page=' . $my_posts_per_page );
Or, if it’s a feed:
query_posts( 'category_name=CAT&posts_per_page=' . $my_posts_per_feed );
showposts is deprecated so I changed it to posts_per_page.
http://codex.wordpress.org/Class_Reference/WP_Query#Pagination_Parameters
