Changing posts_per_page for first of paginated pages

  • aweisman

    (@aweisman)


    11 years, 4 months ago

    Hello! I’m a little stumped with a pagination issue.

    I’ve been using the kriesi_pagination() function for all of my pagination and it’s worked great. Currently, however, I need to paginate a gallery that will have a certain number of posts on the first page, and a different number on the following pages.

    i.e.

    if($paged > 1){
	$posts_per_page = 24;
} else {
	$posts_per_page = 15;
}

    And then I would pass these args to WP_Query…

    'posts_per_page' => $posts_per_page,
'paged' => $paged

    The problem I’m running into is that when I get to the second page, the counts are off. Let’s say I have 17 posts. Since the posts_per_page on page 2 is 24, it’s not going to start at 16 (showing 16 and 17), it’s going to start at 25 (showing nothing).

    I had a look at using offset, but it looks like setting that causes the ‘paged’ parameter to be ignored (per the codex). I’m not sure how to proceed. The only thing I can think to do now is to work with offset to create my own pagination. I guess I just wanted to check here first to see if anyone had any thoughts on using ‘paged’ and ‘posts_per_page’ to get this working, or any tips on other solutions.

    Thanks so much for your time!!

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  • Moderator keesiemeijer

    (@keesiemeijer)

    11 years, 4 months ago

    Is the pagination on a Page template or on a static front page? Or on another template?

    If you use offset you have to provide the pagination:

    For a Page template:
    http://wordpress.org/support/topic/change-posts_per_page-count-on-paginated-pages

    For all other templates:
    http://wordpress.org/support/topic/different-number-of-posts-on-category-page-1

    Thread Starter aweisman

    (@aweisman)

    11 years, 4 months ago

    Thanks so much for the links. Think I got it! Working with offset wasn’t really too difficult. I think I was over-thinking it a bit. I was thinking I’d have to ditch my pagination if I couldn’t use the paged parameter. But fortunately, the kriesi_pagination() function is using the $paged global which is still available. Anyway, don’t want to ramble… Here is what I ended up with for anyone that might need it. And of course feedback is welcome if this could be done better…

    $first_page_post_count = 15;
$subsequent_pages_post_count = 24;
$paged = $paged ? $paged : 1;

if($paged > 1){
	// not first page
	$posts_per_page = $subsequent_pages_post_count;

	if($paged == 2){
		// second page
		$offset = $first_page_post_count;
	} else {
		// subsequent pages
		$offset = $first_page_post_count + ($subsequent_pages_post_count * ($paged - 2));
	}

} else {
	// first page
	$offset = 0;
	$posts_per_page = $first_page_post_count;
}

    Then in the query…

    'posts_per_page' => $posts_per_page,
'offset' => $offset

    Moderator keesiemeijer

    (@keesiemeijer)

    11 years, 4 months ago

    I think you’ve done brilliantly!

    Thread Starter aweisman

    (@aweisman)

    11 years, 4 months ago

    Sweet! Thanks again 🙂

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