Title: Showposts
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Showposts

 *  Resolved [ds24a3](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ds24a3/)
 * (@ds24a3)
 * [14 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/showposts/)
 * Can anyone tell me the php function to check how many posts to display is set
   in wp-admin options.
 * (I know about query_posts(‘showposts=7&paged=’.$page_num); ?>) but this sets 
   the number. I just want to read this number which is already set

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 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [14 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/showposts/#post-2089534)
 * [http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_option](http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_option)
   
   [http://codex.wordpress.org/Option_Reference](http://codex.wordpress.org/Option_Reference)
 *  Thread Starter [ds24a3](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ds24a3/)
 * (@ds24a3)
 * [14 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/showposts/#post-2089646)
 * Got it esmi thanks
 * `<?php echo get_option( 'posts_per_page' ); ?>`

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