adding pagination to custom archives page?

  • I created a custom archives page which currently lists all posts with date/month headers. I would like to limit the number of posts to, say, 50, and add “Next” and “Previous” buttons at the bottom.

    Here’s the current code:

    <?php
	// Declare some helper vars
	$previous_year = $year = 0;
	$previous_month = $month = 0;
	$ul_open = false;

	// Get the posts
	$myposts = get_posts('numberposts=-1&orderby=post_date&order=DESC');
	?>

<?php foreach($myposts as $post) : ?>	

	<?php

	// Setup the post variables
	setup_postdata($post);

	$year = mysql2date('Y', $post->post_date);
	$month = mysql2date('n', $post->post_date);
	$day = mysql2date('j', $post->post_date);

	?>

	<?php if($year != $previous_year || $month != $previous_month) : ?>

		<?php if($ul_open == true) : ?>
		</ul>

		<?php endif; ?>

	<h2 class="pagetitle"><?php the_time('F Y'); ?></h2>

		<ul id="fullarchive">

		<?php $ul_open = true; ?>

	<?php endif; ?>

	<?php $previous_year = $year; $previous_month = $month; ?>

			<li>

	<a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark"><?php the_title(); ?></a>  

			</li>

		<?php endforeach; ?>
			</ul>

    Any ideas how to edit the code? Thanks!

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  • Instead of get_posts couldn’t you use 

    global $query_string;
query_posts($query_string . '&numberposts=-1&orderby=post_date&order=DESC');

    And then make sure you have the next_posts_link and previous_posts_link constructs in your template.

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    (@multiplier)

    Thanks Michael. Actually according to the Codex, it looks like get_posts will take some of the same arguments as query_posts, so I was able to limit the number of entries like this –

    $myposts = get_posts('orderby=post_date&order=DESC&showposts=50');

    The issue is that I don’t know where in the template to insert the next_posts/previous_posts hooks – any ideas?

    Look at the WordPress Default Theme’s index.php for an example.

    Thread Starter multiplier

    (@multiplier)

    I know in index.php, the pagination traditionally goes between the endwhile and the else. But the example above is not a traditional Loop and there is no endwhile, so I’m still not sure where to insert the pagination. Everywhere I’ve tried inserting it has broken the page.

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