Comments on: Two Ways to Limit the Number of Posts without a Plugin

By: Jason Fonceca

Jason Fonceca — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 15:06:59 +0000

Perfect! Exactly what I was looking for. I searched elsewhere and found people going extremely in depth into The Loop, and setting up all kinds of queries + variables… I really love the i++ counter technique. Thanks man :)

By: Canon

Canon — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 21:01:27 +0000

Nice post, it is similar to others I have seen, however with the Method 1, I have tried, it does limit the number of posts shown, however, when using the next page, the difference in posts shown are now missing. For example, 10 posts, limit to 5 posts. Page 1 will show posts 1 through 10. Page 2 will show posts 11 through 20. When limiting the number to 5, Page 1 will show 1 through 5, Page 2 will show 11 through 15. Any thoughts?

I just tested Method 2, with the same results.

Unless I am overlooking something …. the posts are limited, but something else is missing.

By: Jeff Starr

Jeff Starr — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 01:47:40 +0000

Thanks – fixed! :)

WP_Query is certainly useful, but query_posts works just as well ;)

By: Jeff Starr

Jeff Starr — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 01:44:07 +0000

Wow, you’re basing your decision on a single post? We share tons of great content with the community, both here at digwp.com and at our personal sites. Obviously not everything we post is going to be useful to everybody, but it doesn’t stop us from trying to help.

By: Gringer

Gringer — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 17:35:05 +0000

not ‘posts_per_page’ but ‘showposts’ in the explanation of Method 2 ;-)

And for what it’s worth, Id use WP_Query and never query_posts().

http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/WP_Query

By: Jogi

Jogi — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 19:37:24 +0000

I am sorry to say that this post is a good reason to NOT buy the book. The first method results in a blank page. The second method breaks the pagination, exactly like Pavel wrote. Both methods are useless. A waste of time.

By: Pavel

Pavel — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 09:21:50 +0000

I’ve come across a problem using query_posts recently where if the posts_per_page is set to less then the Max posts per page set in the admin area the “older entries” and “newer entries” links return a 404 error. It seems to break pagination.

By: lawrence77

lawrence77 — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 23:00:09 +0000

wow, thats great… ;)

thanks man, it comes in handy…

By: Jeff Starr

Jeff Starr — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 05:22:30 +0000

Yeh, the first method is for specific cases and isn’t always going to gel. But the second method is sound and used successfully on many sites. Remember that query_posts is using a custom query and so any default query parameters (such as the category) will need to be respecified like so:

&cat=n

..where “n” is the number of your category.

I hinted at this situation in the last couple of paragraphs, but perhaps more is needed..

By: Sonya Lynn

Sonya Lynn — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 01:12:15 +0000

Was excited to give this a try…

the first method didn’t work for me at all. Broke my site, returned a blank white page…

the second method, I applied to a custom category-5.php, and worked, but showed posts that aren’t in that particular category. (shows all posts)

meh.