Changed Screen Option – Now I’m locked out of edit.php

  • So… I was poking around 2.8 with TheTechStop.net and I set the “Posts per page:” option in “Screen Options” to 500. (Hey… I just wanted to see if it could.) Now when I click “Posts” I get “Error 500 – Internal Server Error”.

    I get that I set the number too high, but unfortunately since the control to reset the number of posts per page is IN the page that will not display because there are too many posts per page!

    How can I manually reset that number? I’ve been perusing the MySQL database for the entry that controls that option, but so far no luck.

    Peace,
    Fr. Robert

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  • Look in table wp_usermeta
    Execute “SELECT *
    FROM wp_usermeta
    WHERE meta_key LIKE ‘edit_per_page'” (without ” “)
    Then change the 500 for your userID (if you’re admin, it’s 1)

    Cheers ??

    I have the same problem as padresj…

    I’m using WP v2.8.6 and it seems to be broken… I had gone in to increase the number of posts in the POSTS > EDIT SCREEN OPTIONS subpanel and now I see NOTHING on the /WP-ADMIN/EDIT.PHP page!!!

    I had increased from the default 20 posts to 400 and the resulting refresh draws a blank page. Where and how can I fix this? What, if any, is the limit for the number of posts for this function?

    workaround: https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/309894

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