Post Serial Number within a Category

You may not want to use ordered list because you have less control of how you want the number to appear.

You could just make your own counter.

<?php $post_no = 1; ?>
<?php if ( have_posts() ) : while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); ?>

<?php echo $post_no; // display as you like ?>
// display post, etc

<?php $post_no++; >
<?php endwhile; else: ?>
<?php _e('Sorry, no posts matched your criteria.'); ?>

<?php endif; ?>

Thank you very much for your help.

Will this work across pages? That is, will the first post on the next page end up being #1 again?

Yes, it will

Ok thanks. I don’t suppose there’s a workaround? (other than showing all posts in the category on the one page – which for me might be actually be the best option…)

You could do something like this

$post_no = $counter + $posts_per_page * ($page - 1)

Of course, you have to somehow get the values for the variables in that formula above

Thanks alphaoide:)