Show 10 posts on the front page, but 5 posts on others

Does anyone have any experience in this area?

there is a plugin called “Custom Query String” that i use that i think will also do this.

you can also make a home.php template that is like your index.php template but then using the “Custom Query String” plug-in and set the posts on home.php to 8 and then the post on index.php to 6 or whatever. When someone goes to you site wordpress will look for the home.php for the front blog page and index.php for the next pages.

Good luck, that is a start

When someone goes to you site wordpress will look for the home.php for the front blog page and index.php for the next pages.

That’s a false statement. If you have a home.php template file (which you should NOT in the latest versions!) that ALWAYS overrides the index.php.
mdstidham, you should learn about the Template_Hierarchy before making misleading statements.

If somebody prefers code instead of a plugin – should be able to write it or, at least, to search for it. The keyword is “is_paged”.

My mistake, yeah i have never used the home.php but i did scan through that template hierarchy page a few days ago. I thought it just referred to the first home page but good to know it replaces the whole index.php

is_paged options are included within that plug-in so i think you should be good. good luck to you t3ch33

Thanks. But, the reason my code wasn’t working with wordpress’s in the first place, is bc I forgot to copy a file to the wordpress directory. So, my original code from my old site is working the way I want it to.