Customize the Number of Posts On Different Pages of your WordPress Blog

You may wish to Show a limited number of posts on home page but more Posts On category,tag,archive and  Search results pages.This WordPress plugin will do this for you.

The Custom Query String WordPress plugin lets you completely customize how many Posts Appear in Different pages of your Blog.Using this you can set Conditions as per your desire.

The Interface is very Simple as shown below

custom query string

Just add the Rules that You need and Voila ! plugin you can also choose the number of posts on Individual Category pages.

Another Simpler Setting :Consider a Situation when you wish to Show 5 Posts on your Blog’s Homepage but more posts (say 10 posts) on all other pages(category,tag,search,archive etc) of your Blog.

1.From your WordPress Admin panel Go to the reader Settings.Under the field “Blog Pages show at most” set the Number of posts you wish to see on All other pages

2.Now From Settings go to “CQS” ( Custom Query String ) and Set the Homepage rule to 5.

That’s it.Now Your Homepage will show 5 posts while all other pages will show 10 posts.Thanks Daily Blog Tips

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Written by on Tuesday, January 13th, 2009

  1. Reader Comments

  2. Austin @ Niche Weapons

    excellent plugin, exactly what I’m looking for (can’t believe this feature is not built into WP itself) – thank you!

    February 7th, 2009
  3. Amit Banerjee

    @Austin @ Niche Weapons
    Thanks Austin For stopping by.It took me some time to find the plugin but it is really very useful

    February 7th, 2009
  4. TechiePark

    Thanks for this nice plugin… was trying very hard to find solution for this post list display problem…

    July 1st, 2010

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