[Resolved] Control posts shown on first page of blog

[Conor]

Hi, so my first page of my blog is my home page, and I only want 6 of my sticky posts showing up on my home page. Now for the rest of my pages, I am comfortable with 15 posts showing up on each page. How can I control how many posts show up on my blog, and how can I make it different for the home page then for the other pages of my blgo? thanks in advance, C

[Leo]

Hi there,

Try this snippet:
https://generatepress.com/forums/topic/blog-add-on-different-number-of-post-in-first-page-of-blog/#post-372928

Adding PHP: https://docs.generatepress.com/article/adding-php/

Replace 10 with 6.

And set Blog pages show at most to 15 in the readings settings:
https://wordpress.org/support/article/settings-reading-screen/

[Conor]

Hi Leo, it sort of works for me.

It doesn’t work with this snippet

add_action( ‘pre_get_posts’, function( $query ) {
if ( is_admin() || ! $query->is_main_query() ) {
return;
}

if ( is_home() ) {
$query->set( ‘posts_per_page’, 15 );
}
if ( is_category(‘your-category-slug’) ) {
$query->set( ‘posts_per_page’, 15 );
}
} );

See, I want 6 on first page then I want 12 on all the other pages.

ALso, how can I make it so that the numbers disapear on the home page? I don’t want the ‘ 1 2 3 next -> ‘ on the home page.

[Leo]

Sorry can you confirm that this is what you are adding?

add_action( 'pre_get_posts', 'tu_change_posts_per_page', 1 );
function tu_change_posts_per_page( &$query ) {
    if ( ! is_main_query() ) {
        return;
    }

    if ( ! $query->is_paged ) {
        $query->set( 'posts_per_page', 6 );
    }
}

It should make the first page to display 6 posts. Don’t change the 1 in the function.

And set Blog pages show at most to 12 in the readings settings:
https://wordpress.org/support/article/settings-reading-screen/

[Leo]

To answer this:
https://generatepress.com/forums/topic/blog-add-on-different-number-of-post-in-first-page-of-blog/#post-1446488

Also, when you run the snippet, just make it run on the front-end only. Or does this cause some other issue I am unaware of?

I usually run it everywhere but if front end works for you then it should be fine as well.

[Conor]

Hi Leo, yes that is what I added, but it doesn’t work well with the other function that was already on my blog.

add_action( ‘pre_get_posts’, function( $query ) {
if ( is_admin() || ! $query->is_main_query() ) {
return;
}

if ( is_home() ) {
$query->set( ‘posts_per_page’, 15 );
}
if ( is_category(‘your-category-slug’) ) {
$query->set( ‘posts_per_page’, 15 );
}
} );

Also, how can I get rid of the 1 2 3 –> on the bottom. I just want to get rid of it on the home page..

[Leo]

Let’s tackle one issue at a time please.

Does my snippet work for the request of this topic if you remove your snippet first?

[Conor]

how can I get rid of the 1 2 3 –> on the bottom. I just want to get rid of it on the home page.

[Leo]

Try this CSS:

body.home:not(.paged) .paging-navigation {
    display: none;
}

Adding CSS: https://docs.generatepress.com/article/adding-css/

[Conor]

I’m having an issue that if I publish a new article – it goes on the first page of the blog.. it seems that with the code :

add_action( ‘pre_get_posts’, ‘tu_change_posts_per_page’, 1 );
function tu_change_posts_per_page( &$query ) {
if ( ! is_main_query() ) {
return;
}

if ( ! $query->is_paged ) {
$query->set( ‘posts_per_page’, 6 );
}
}

It shows 6 of the most recent posts plus any sticky posts. How could I get it to just show 6 posts, not 6 of most recent posts plus all sticky posts?

Maybe a piece of code that get’s it to show just the 6 most recent stickied posts.

[Leo]

I’m not sure if we can modify the code that way – the theme itself doesn’t control the post loop from WordPress.

I think the better/easier solution would be to use WP Show Posts on the front page:
https://en-ca.wordpress.org/plugins/wp-show-posts/

Then you can select whichever 6 posts you want to show in the list using the post IDs:
https://docs.wpshowposts.com/article/more-settings-overview/#post-id

[Conor]

also, can I set it so that it is only 6 posts on front page, but a different amount of posts on category pages? I want 6 posts on first page, but am happy with 15 on all other post-showing pages of the site.

I tried this but it didn’t work

add_action( ‘pre_get_posts’, function( $query ) {
if ( is_admin() || ! $query->is_main_query() ) {
return;
}

if ( is_category(‘your-category-slug’) ) {
$query->set( ‘posts_per_page’, 15 );
}

if ( is_home() ) {
$query->set( ‘posts_per_page’, 6 );
}

} );

this code still just set every page to 6 posts

[Conor]

Also, something that would work is if I could just set it so only sticky posts showed up on front page.. if i can set it to just sticky posts on front page, I could figure out the rest.

C

[Leo]

Using WP Show Posts plugin for the front page would be the best option.

Then you can use the filter to control the category pages only.

[Conor]

I looked at it and it looked a little complicated and time-consuming to set up. Is it impossible to set the front page to only show sticky posts? because if it is, then I could fix the rest from that.. If the code ins’t possible for that, I’ll try the wp show posts

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