Getting A 177 Posts Limit On Dynamic Page

  • Hi,

    Apologies if this is a dumb question but having spent hours ploughing through the forums I am now totally confused, so would appreciate any help or advice. I am WP novice so be gentle, as i have very limited PHP coding knowledge!

    I have created a site using the SEXY SMOKER theme as the basis of my site. I have a number of static pages created via html, and use plugins to generate the dynamic pages I want users to see.

    I have over 500 posts on the site, with standard content and some custom fields, split over several categories, however a problem arose just recently when I added posts to one specific category. This category now has 225 posts in it, whereas previously it had about 140.

    I use Kalins Post List plugin to create the dynamic page i want users to see in the style and format I want and this worked exactly as designed when i had just 140 posts in the one category, all were returned using the post count option of -1. Now this category has grown to 225 posts I get just a header and no returned data. After much playing about I found that I could get a maximum of 177 posts returned if I altered the post count to 177, but 178 and above I get the blank page.

    I tried several other plugins and hit the same problem of 177 posts limit. However my all post page shows all 500+ posts on the site, and if I use the category widget in the sidebar this returns all 225 posts but shows obviously all the post content. The Pagenavi plugin works well in both cases splitting the returned data into pages of 20 posts as designed in the pagenavi and admin settings.

    As i want to limit the amount of content that is shown to the user ( hence why using Kalins Post List plugin ) rather than giving them all the post content I am confused as to why I am getting this 177 post limitation.

    I have found a plugin (AZIndex) that does return all 225 posts, as it has an option to split the returned data over several pages, however its very limited in its styling and format options.

    So why the 177 post limit when asking for all posts in this specific category? Is my problem a theme issue?, a plugin issue, a pagination issue, or page break issue?

    Can anyone suggest any code changes I need to make to overcome this problem, and if so where?

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  • So why the 177 post limit

    This could be a limit imposed via your hosting server – not by WordPress or the plugin. Why are you using this plugin in the first place?

    Thread Starter spartacus00

    (@spartacus00)

    As mentioned esmi, I want to limit the information returned to enable me to have different subscription levels…. i.e. the more they subscribe the more information they get to see on each post in that specific category

    Using Kalins post list plugin enables me to be very specific about what information I return to the user to see.

    How can this be a hosting server issue if I can see all 500 posts if select to view all posts page? or all 225 if use the category sidebar widget?

    Because it may revolve around the way in which this specific plugin works. In order to stop over-consumption of cpu resources, many hosts apply limits to scripts. One example is a limit to the amount of data allowed in $_POST variables. I’m not saying that this is the case with the Kalins post list plugin (I don’t know that plugin) but, if not, it will be something very similar. You can see 500 posts via the core WP functionality because core uses a different approach that avoids these limits.

    You could ask your hosts about this to see what limits are imposed and if there is any way to raise them but they may be reluctant to do so as it could penalise other users of your server. Alternatively, you could try looking for another approach/plugin to limit access to posts.

    Thread Starter spartacus00

    (@spartacus00)

    Thanks so much, obviously further investigation needed, thanks for the pointer, never considered that as being the possible problem.

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