Customize how many posts show for each category

You could create different category templates and then, just before the Loop in each template, add something like:

<?php
$paged = (get_query_var('paged')) ? get_query_var('paged') : 1;
$args= array(
	'posts_per_page' => 6,
	'paged' => $paged
);
query_posts($args);
?>

Well i’m doing something like this before the loop:

query_posts('category_name=features&posts_per_page=5');

It works but next pages show the same stuff the the first page shows …

Any idea why ?

Your method shows all categories plus it break the wp_pagenavi plugin

i ended up doing this:

global $query_string;

	if ($category[0]->cat_ID==4)  query_posts($query_string . '&category_name=cat1&posts_per_page=5'); else
	if ($category[0]->cat_ID==3)  query_posts($query_string . '&category_name=cat2&posts_per_page=5'); else
    if ($category[0]->cat_ID==5)  query_posts($query_string . '&category_name=cat3&posts_per_page=10');

	while (have_posts()) : the_post(); 

..........

missed this before:

$category = get_the_category();