mistergoomba

Okay, I found the offset parameter. Thanks again for the help!

$offset = (($paged - 2) * 10) + 5;
    global $query_string;
    query_posts( $query_string . '&offset=' . $offset );

Very cool, thanks! My first page is a little more efficient now :}

However, this doesn’t solve my problem. Page 2 assumes that Page 1 had 10 posts, not 5. Therefore 5 posts go unseen.

It’s a simple statement, really:

if($paged) {
    while ( have_posts() ) :
        the_post();
    }
} else {
    $i = 0;
    while ( have_posts() && $i++ < 5 ) :
        the_post();
    }
}

I’ll probably ending up changing the query on page 1 rather than over-query and just stop displaying after the 5th post. However, whatever method I use for that, I assume doesn’t affect pages 2 and beyond.

Thanks

Thanks, I’ll look in to hacking the .htaccess file to get my desired result.

I’m sorry that I’m having a problem explaining what I’m trying to do. I don’t intend for /news to be a post within a certain category. I just need one template for all categories that will incorporate the /news permalink.

/news will probably not even have any WordPress data in it, other than checking to see what category it’s in.

Thanks again! I think I can try to use the .htaccess file to achieve what I want.

The data doesn’t really matter. The hope is that I can have:

/category_1/news
/category_2/news

and have them use the same template. Hopefully without having to create a new page under every single category.