Limiting Category Counts in the Loop

Might look at https://www.ads-software.com/extend/plugins/custom-post-limits/

Thanks for the tip! I’ll take a look and see how they are coding that. If anyone has any loop tips, those would be great as well as I prefer to not rely on plug-ins. Thanks!

Example of proper pagination:

<?php
$paged = (get_query_var('paged')) ? get_query_var('paged') : 1;
query_posts('cat=3&posts_per_page='.get_option('posts_per_page').'&paged=' . $paged);
?>

See the WordPress Default theme’s wp-content/themes/default/index.php for example of using the template tags, previous_posts_link() and next_posts_link().

Related:
Stepping Into Template Tags
Stepping Into Templates
Template Hierarchy