[Resolved] Number of posts to be displayed on the blog page

[Irfan]

Hi,

I have a dedicated blog section on my site. In order to customize the appearance of excerpts etc I have setup an element with
– type “Block – Content Template”
– Location : Blog and All Archives
and I am using a query loop on this element type
However on the blog page the query duplication/repeats itself many times like loop within a loop. The same blog listings are shown many times.
Having spent considerable time searching for the problem, I have found out that the duplication amount is the same number as provided in Settings > Reading > Blog Pages show at most ____ posts.
For example if I set the above number to 3 posts and in the elements section if I set the block propery “Posts per page” to 3, this is what shows on the blog page

Blog Page Title
Post 1 Title/Excerpt – Post 2 Title/Excerpt – Post 3 Title/Excerpt – Post 4 Title/Excerpt

Blog Page Title
Post 1 Title/Excerpt – Post 2 Title/Excerpt – Post 3 Title/Excerpt – Post 4 Title/Excerpt

Blog Page Title
Post 1 Title/Excerpt – Post 2 Title/Excerpt – Post 3 Title/Excerpt – Post 4 Title/Excerpt

If I set the number to 1 under Settings > Reading > Blog Pages show at most ____ posts. section all is fine and there’s no repetition.
Is this supposed to be the right way or am I missing something ?
Thanks in advance
Irfan

[David]

Hi there,

the Content Template block element replaces the template that is used to display each post.

if you want rebuild the index / archives with the Query Loop then use the Loop Template instead.

[Irfan]

Hi David,

Thanks I corrected my template. However once I changed the template the pagination links at the bottom of the posts disappeared, how can I restore them ?

[Fernando]

Hi Irfan,

Did you use a Loop Template? If yes, you can add pagination as instructed here: https://generatepress.com/forums/topic/query-loops-pagination-for-categories/#post-2414210

[Irfan]

Hi Fernando,

How dumb of me yes I added pagination from the toolbar and I have the pagination back
Thanks for the fast response!

[Fernando]

You’re welcome, Irfan!

[Irfan]

Now I have the pagination but how can I change the label in the pagination ? For previous/next labels etc.
And the URL of the pages are not SEO friendly like “?query-a14f3a8e-page=3”. How can I make it like /page/3

I have the “Post name” in permalink structure in the settings of WP

[Fernando]

To clarify, have you set the Query Loop to “Inherit Loop from template”? Reference: https://docs.generatepress.com/article/block-element-loop-template/

[Irfan]

Hi Fernando,

Thanks for your patience.
When I check it I see that this setting was off. I turned it on and the slug is now /page/2 …etc
However when I click to next page and the URL is /page/2 then I get “page not found” from WordPress web page

And when I set the Query Loop to “Inherit Loop from template” how can I set number of posts per page and add custom parameters. Before this setting was off I was able to customize it.

Under this switch there is the following explanation: “Toggle to use the global query context that is set with the current template, such as an archive or search.”

If I turn it on how can customize the “global query context” ? Under which menu item can I access it ? The template I used is “Pixel” from GeneratePress : https://gpsites.co/pixel/

[David]

If you use Inherit Loop from template that is all you can do. You can’t add other parameters to the block as those would conflict.
Instead you change the main query:
For example the number of posts that are displayed can be changed in the Settings > Reading -> Blog pages show at most

What other changes are you wanting to make to this loop ?

[Irfan]

I was thinking of excluding some categories but I can try to live without it.
However as I have stated in my previous post the 2nd page shows “page not found” for the URL …./page/2
I would appreciate if you can point me in the right direction for this problem

[David]

Can you make sure that there are no parameters set on the Query Loop block and then re-enable the Inherit Query from Template

Then go to Dashboard > Settings > Permalinks and click save changes to regenerate the permalinks.

If you want to exclude categories or other changes let me know

[Irfan]

Thanks a lot, it worked 🙂

[David]

Glad to hear that!

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