Blog Grid

How many posts are you showing on a page?

Kadence Themes

I fear too many… depending on the category up to 200 or more.

ok, so I recommend you use pagination. And break up pages to more like 20-30 per page. with nice pagination numbers at the bottom. Your loading time alone for 200+ posts to load would be enough to make people want to leave the site.
Infinite scroll will not change this for you because when you move forward then back your still reloading that page (caching makes it load faster but it’s still being reloaded) and anytime you load a page infinite scroll starts at the top.

You can see here: https://themes.kadencethemes.com/pinnacle/blog-grid-example/

Make your screen height small enough that you can only see one row of posts, then click on one of the last two posts, once you enter click back in your browser and it should (does it for me) take you down to the bottom of the page.

I think the only reason yours wouldn’t be is because of load time.

Kadence Themes

Thank you for the fast reply!

It doesn′t work for me with small screen – it takes me up to the top of the page.
It even doesn′t work with only 9 posts, image size about each 50kb.
But it works perfect with 200 posts when I choose “Blog” instead of “Blog Grid”

What I have seen just now (just testing how long it takes to load the site) : Blog Grid works fantastic with Internet Explorer 11, no matter how many posts are on the page. And loading the site was very fast as far as I can say.

It doesn′t work with the browser I normaly use: Mozilla 42.0 or Google Chrome Version 46.0.2490.86 m

Now I have tested my page with Mozilla and Linux – here the Grid Blog works like a charm. Drives me mad.
The Pinnacle Grid Blog demo site works with Mozilla and Windows 7 professional. My site not. Heaven knows why.

Hey,
So it was taking you to the top of the page while using chrome and firefox on the demo site?

Thats odd. do you have browser caching enabled?

200 is a ton of posts to scroll through regardless if you can go back or not right? Do you not like pagination?

Kadence Themes

No, Chrome and Mozialla take me back to the right place on your demo site. Only on my pages this doesn′t work with Chrome, Mozilla and even Opera on my main computer with windows 7 professional. With Internet Explorer 11 it works like a charm.

Yes, browser catching is allowed.

On my second computer my site works perfect with linux and Mozilla.
And my site works also perfect with Mozilla and Windows 8. So I think (hopefully), that on most computers it will work and with that I can live.
The largest page (with over 200 posts) loads pretty fast – as soon as you have no prehistoric snail net. The loading time takes only twice of the pinnacle grid blog demo site.

I am artist and do post paintings and most people only want to see the images or get an quick overview of them (not read my blah blah). So I decided to choose the grid blog as a masonry pinterest style. The visitors can scroll easily though the mass of paintings, sorted by subject and medium, and if they are interested on more information, they can click the post and see and read more. I have several non-responsive websites with hundreds (thousands to be honest) of pages (you can get lost on them) and wanted this time a less-clicking-more-finding solution.

Pagination would be a opinion for the largest categories, but as far as I can see there is only the page opportunity of choosing 2-16 blogs or all. 16 Post is not enough for my purpose, this would result in endless clicking again and unfortunately doesn′t look good in my case (I have tested this on my site). 100 -200 blogs per page would be wonderful. Is there a opportunity to make this possible? Or does the upgrade have this opportunity?

Hey,
If the pages are category pages then the amount per page can be set in your settings > reading. If they are in fact pages that are using the blog grid template then you would need to use a child theme and edit one line of the blog grid file.

https://www.kadencethemes.com/child-themes/

template-blog-grid.php line 50. you would change:

'posts_per_page' => $blog_items

to

'posts_per_page' => '100'

Kadence Themes

Thank you so much for your great help! I have totally forgotten that the amount can be changed in the settings and (even worse) that I already had set the blog up to 200 posts…
I have replaced the grid blog pages with new category pages – for a child theme I feel much to old at the moment :-))