Override number of blog posts on home page

Hi @kidznomz,

Nice looking site! Thanks for using Kale, and thank you for getting in touch.

You could use CSS to hide the rest of the posts, but a more efficient solution might be to prevent them from being loaded in the first place. It looks like you’re using a child theme, so you can just copy + paste the following code into your child theme’s functions.php file:

add_action('pre_get_posts', function($query) {
	if (!($query->is_home() && is_main_query()) || is_admin()) {
		return;
	}
	if ($query->is_paged) {
		$offset = (($query->query_vars['paged'] - 2) * get_option('posts_per_page')) + 4;
		$query->set('offset', $offset);
	} else {
		//$query->set('posts_per_page', $offset + $ppp);
		$query->set('posts_per_page', 4);
	}
});
add_filter('found_posts', function($found, $query) {
	if ($query->is_paged) {
		$found += (get_option('posts_per_page') - 4);
	}
	return $found;
}, 10, 2);

If your functions.php has a closing PHP tag at the end of the file (it will look like this: ?>), then you can insert the code right before that line. If there’s no closing PHP tag, you can just insert the code at the end of the file.

Let us know if you have any trouble or any additional questions!