How to notify reader of additional posts?

  • In the admin pages – Options > Reading, I like to set “blog pages” section to show at most 5 posts to keep a handle on page size.

    But what if I have 12 posts? How does the reader know there is more scintillating reading just around the corner?

    Is there some way I can display a link, perhaps in the footer, that says More Posts >> or something like that?

    Perhpas even 7 More Posts >> where the number would be calculated based on how many posts are currently displayed on the first page?

    Other options?

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  • By default most themes have the Next/Prev link at the bottom which will be displayed as soon as the number of your posts is bigger than the # set in Options.

    To display that kind of 175 post thing… you’ll need a plugin.
    https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Plugins

    Thread Starter deko

    (@deko)

    I think I’ve seen that bit of code in there somewhere. But doesn’t that just go to the next post, as opposed to filling the page with the next/previous 5 posts?

    That’s the behavior I’m looking for: where the user can page through x number posts at a time – where x is the number set in Options.

    Getting the ‘display posts’ number from options and the total number of posts in the category is easy enough – but how to keep track of where you are? Do I need view state for this? How will my code know whether posts 5 thru 10 or posts 11 thru 16 are currently displayed in the page?

    …But doesn’t that just go to the next post, as opposed to filling the page with the next/previous 5 posts?

    Depends on which tag you’re using of course.

    Great info here: https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Template_Tags

    In my theme, at the bottom of index.php, I use next_posts_link() and prev_posts_link() (which, after a glance at the codex, both appear to be deprecated now. doh). https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Template_Tags/posts_nav_link is similar for paged navigation.

    A single.php might use next_post() and previous_post() instead.

    Thread Starter deko

    (@deko)

    <?php get_posts('arguments'); ?> has an offset argument, and query_posts looks interesting.

    But I’m unsure if I can get the behavior I’m looking for without some kind of page state mechanism.

    I can envision a way to select some number of posts, but I will need to know whether posts 5 thru 10 or posts 11 thru 16 are currently displayed in the page… this info must be maintained in some page/session variable, no?

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