Altering Post Count on Archive Loopers

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#1

Probably a rudimentary question but one I just haven’t really needed a good answer to until now…

So I know that the archive looper provider is sort of built in and using the count as defined by the global wordpress settings. But my question is what if I want to override that for a specific archive layout without altering that global setting? Maybe I have an archive I want to show 25 posts on but the rest I wanna keep at the default 9… but I want pagination to work the same way for both. Its the pagination part that seems to be giving me trouble…

I’ve tried setting up my own looper provider on the archive layout but that breaks pagination behavior. I’ve tried both limiting and extending the looper consumer to a different number but the pagination count remains the same no matter what I change those to. Its weird that I can’t seem to adjust this at the provider level like I could if I were making a loop on some other static page while keeping pagination behavior we expect on an archive page. Any light you can shed on this?

#2

Hello @simeoned,

Thank you for the inquiry.

Have you tried using the pre_get_posts hook to alter the query based on certain conditions? You can use this to adjust the posts number on a specific archive or category page.

Example:

function x_pre_get_posts_mod( $query ) {
    if (!is_admin() && $query->is_main_query() && is_category('your-category-slug')) {
        $query->set('posts_per_page', 25);
    }
}
add_action('pre_get_posts', 'x_pre_get_posts_mod');

Let us know if this is what you’re looking for.

Best regards.