posts_per_page is wrong

  • I want to display only the 4 most recent posts.

    I have accomplished this on a custom template page within my site by setting query_posts(‘cat=5&posts_per_page=5’); I can change the posts_per_page to any number and the loop outputs the correct number of posts.

    but in my index page, when I set query_posts(‘posts_per_page=4’); I get 5 posts. I’ve tried other limits with odd results: 1=4, 2=4, 3=5, 4=5, 5=6, 14=15. I suppose I could use a counter variable inside my php loop to force the exact number of posts that I want to see but I wanted to report this as a bug for WP staff to fix. I’m using the newest 2.9.2. I think the strangest part is that the limit works correctly on one page but not on index.

    does anyone else or any other versions have this same problem?

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  • Thread Starter ambius

    (@ambius)

    I think figured out part of my problem. I have 4 sticky posts that I was using to stick at the top of a different page… I’m guessing that is why there is a minimum of 4 posts returning. However, I still don’t know why I’m getting 5 when I ask for 4, or 15 when 14, etc. I have exactly 4 sticky posts in my entire database.

    Thread Starter ambius

    (@ambius)

    sorry for posting in my own topic, yet again, but I think I finally fixed my problem and wanted to share the code in case it helps someone else.

    I added caller_get_posts=1 to my query arguments to treat sticky posts like a normal post. This works great for me because I didn’t want any of those stickies to be sticky on my index (only on a few archive pages). Now when I tell it to give me 3 posts it gives exactly 3. and when I ask for 6 it gives me exactly 6.

    However, I still think WP is bugged because when you allow stickies to be sticky, the posts per page count is off by 1. an easy programming mistake to make.

    However, I still think WP is bugged because when you allow stickies to be sticky, the posts per page count is off by 1. an easy programming mistake to make.

    Not a bug–that’s the way the developers intended it to work.

    Thread Starter ambius

    (@ambius)

    either we are not understanding each other here, or your developers have a pretty flawed idea of how to implement features with consistency. Not exactly logical for 5 to mean 6, but only sometimes, on some pages, and not others. But I think we are understanding each other fine and the devs really are that bad. That’s why WP is so hard to work with and sucks for anything outside of a blog page.

    or maybe I’m wrong about the devs and you are just failing to see the bug here.

    With the template tag, query_posts(), you could use ‘caller_get_posts’=> 1 to exclude stickies from being returned at the top of your query results.

    Related:
    Reporting Bugs

    Thread Starter ambius

    (@ambius)

    I have been using ‘caller_get_posts’=>1

    The bug I’m experiencing is when this line is not included (I’m guessing the default value then would be 0). Thank you for the link to the Trac system. When I have more time, I will verify that my bug is unique and report it.

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