Reading Options — Posts Per Page

P.S I have tried to upload the file but it says PHP files are not allowed.

Sorry lareina1045, but I believe you can only suggest a plugin to be installed on blogsome. And considering the nature of the plugin linked to above…

Moshu, I guess you’re right, I used a bad example. Hmm, but I remember testing it. Is it possible they upgraded to 1.5 and lost the ability to show ALL entries regardless of the “max number of entries” setting?

This is a pretty major problem, I’d say; looking forward to seeing if it actually gets fixed or not. For now, I shall hack around it, like the rest of us.

It’s a design decision. It won’t get “fixed” because that’s the developers’ intent. Posts per page gets propogated through all types of pages, from main to archives which is far more consistent than the “implied all posts” in archives. Could the core be modified to provide options for number of posts to display for each category type? Sure. But why when there’s a way to do it that is customizable and doesn’t affect the core?

Thanks for the plugin, it came in very handy. I was used to being able to do this in WordPress 1.2 and found it quite important: This way, I can get a complete index/list of all my entries in a particular category. Just the linked titles, nothing else.

Hmm.. I set the reading options to 1 day, and I used the plug-in (custom posts per page) … but now it screws everything up. I set the custom post per page to 10, but the posts shown per page are random? or maybe it’s 10 days worth of posts?

I don’t mind having 10 days worth of posts, but it screws up the page navigation system, it still display “Previous Entries” even though there are none.

It’s a design decision. It won’t get “fixed” because that’s the developers’ intent. Posts per page gets propogated through all types of pages, from main to archives which is far more consistent than the “implied all posts” in archives.

Perhaps, ColdForged, perhaps – but removing functionality and then justifying it with “it’s a design decision” just doesn’t cut it. It could be quite easily fixed – the developers leave this functionality as the default but offer an option to return to a) how it works in other blogging engines and b) how it worked in 1.2 .

You can’t justify removing functionality by saying ‘we like it like that’. Well, you can, but it’s a pretty immature product if that’s the case. I hate nothing more than upgrading a piece of software and spending a day installing hacks to restore old functionality.

And hey, I’m a big fan of a lot of the new features in 1.5. It’s stupid little things like this that really irk me about WordPress.

I agree that it’s annoying you can’t easily change the number of posts per page. For my site (https://tinywords.com) I’d like to be able to show a single day on the home page, but many more than that in the archives.

The “posts per page” plugin works fine for me, but it causes problems with the WordPress admin interface… for instance, I get blank pages after updating templates or editing posts. Turning off the plugin makes the admin work correctly again. Any ideas why this is happening? I like the functionality, but the problems it causes with the admin interface are not acceptable.

It’s amazing to me that this hasn’t yet been fixed in WordPress. But I’m grateful for the plugin.

I have not tried the plug-in yet. I get scared using those things. The question I have is that I do not see the next/previous buttons when you click in my archives.

Like many of you, I want only the last x-number of posts on the main page but all the posts for the month in the archives. I may have done something to my index.php that means I do not have those links. Where do I find the next/previous links for my archives?

https://mattread.com/archives/2005/03/custom-query-string-plugin/

This plugin solved this question for me, and has great flexibility to set categories, archives, and searches, and Home, to the exact number of post or days you choose for each.

This plugin will allow you to set a different number of posts per page for the main page, category pages, date pages, etc. I’m pretty sure it’s exactly what you’re looking for.

https://rephrase.net/miscellany/05/perpage.phps

Is there a way to tweak the output of this plugin so that the newest posts are at the top in archive pages instead of the oldest post?

Thanks!

I would imagine changing ASC to DESC would suffice.

I uploaded https://rephrase.net/miscellany/05/perpage.phps
to my plug-in directory, I activated… and then I’m lost. How do I use this plugin? It doesn’t seem to show any new menu or submenu in the admin page. Any directions will be appreciated.