How to Show More Excerpts on Category Pages

Find the file where the Loop starts ( if (have_posts()) … ) and place the following code just ahead of that line. You will need to enclose this code in <?php and ?> tags if the line that has the have_posts() starts with a <?php tag.

global $wp_query;
query_posts(
   array_merge(
      $wp_query->query,
      array('posts_per_page' => 10)
   )
);

That didn’t work…and I did enclosed it with php tags. Should it be somewhere in the category.php? There’s no have_posts in there though…

You must identify which file is being used for the category display.

Please put the code in a pastebin and post a link to it here.

It looks like the display is in the category.php file. I hope I dud this right!

<script src=”https://pastebin.com/embed_js.php?i=KUtYtXKV”></script&gt;

OK. Twenty Ten and its derivatives have things in different places than most other themes.

Make a copy of loop.php named loop-content.php. Put the code I showed, enclosed in php tags, just before the Display navigation comment line, like this:

* @since Twenty Ten 1.0
 */
?>

<?php
global $wp_query;
query_posts(
   array_merge(
      $wp_query->query,
      array('posts_per_page' => 10)
   )
);
?>

<?php /* Display navigation to next/previous pages when applicable */ ?>
<?php if ( $wp_query->max_num_pages > 1 ) : ?>

I’m going to sound dumb here but…

I can see the loop.php file, but how do I make a copy of it? Can I do this within WordPress?

You will need to use ftp or a file manager such as that found in cPanel with your hosting service.

Okay – i did it, but it still doesn’t work. Do I need to remove the loop.php file?

No, loop.php needs to stay there for queries other than categories.

Please put a copy of your loop-category.php file in a pastebin and post a link here.

There is no loop-category.php…do you mean the loop-content.php?

I am terribly sorry, I told you the wrong name. It should be loop-category.php, not loop-content.php.

Rename it to loop-category.php and see if it works.

Success at last!!! Thanks so much for your help ??

Thanks for hanging in there with me.

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