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Anonymous
That’s how I am using WordPress. I have a page called NEWS.php that shows all the articles with no limitation for now:
<?php /* Don't remove this line, it calls the WP function files ! */
$blog=1;
$cat= 3;
require_once("./wordpress/wp-blog-header.php");
?>
<!-- // loop start -->
<?php foreach ($posts as $post) { start_wp(); ?>
<div class="news">
<h3 id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></h3>
<?php the_content(); ?>
<?php the_time("d/m/y"); ?>
</div>
<!-- // this is just the end of the motor - don't touch that line either :) -->
<?php } ?>
Then I have and INDEX.php with the excerpts, and I need to show only 2 excerpts…so I need to change the number of showed posts only in index.php.
Anyway, I tried to change the option as Beel said but the pages are not affected by the change.
I don’t understand the meaning of that code. Anyway I tried it (with 3 in place of X) and it doesn’t work π
Here’s the code translated into plainspeak:
If the $cat variable is not set, set to 3 (the default cat you show on the main page)
Otherwise, if the $cat is the “special” category, set the number of posts to show to 2.
It should go at the top of your index.php, right after the $blog=1; code, and replace your $cat=3; code.
Hmmmmm…. just tried it out. Why didn’t it work? Ack! I do know that if you add $postcount=2 to the url, it works…. wonder why not here? I bet it gets over written in wp-blog-header.php file…. grrrrr…
TG
Hello TG, thanx so much.
You wrote:
<cite>I bet it gets over written in wp-blog-header.php file…. grrrrr…</cite>
I wonder…maybe there’s something that can be eliminated from wp-blog-header so that your code can work?
Consider that I don’t need the general options for the number of posts to show…
OK, this is starting to piss me off now….. can any one see why this doesn’t work:
if ('11' == $cat) {
$showposts = "1";
}
I’ve looked through wp-blog-header.php and for the life of me, I cannot see WTF is going on. If I set $showposts explicitly, w/o regard to the category, then it works, I only get one post. But I want to only show one post IF a specific category is being viewed.
I’ve even had the $cat printed to the title just to make sure I had the right ID. OOOhh….. wait….. CRAP!…. I think I’ve got it figured now…. ugh!
Fransesca, let me try something out. Will get back to you on this (it’s something I could use too.)
TG
Thread Starter
Anonymous
You wrote:
I do know that if you add $postcount=2 to the url, it works….
Weel, I tried but this doesn’t work for me… it would be great if I can limit the number of showed posts from the URL, it’s actually what I was looking for…
carlo , italy