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Archives should have separate setting for # of blog pages shown

  1. sunnydaymiasma
    Member

    I recently realized that what you set under reading settings for "blog pages show at most __ posts" applies for both your blog AND the blog's archives.

    This is slightly inconvenient since, in the blog you only want a few posts showing at once (in full length), while in archives you want a lot of posts titles shown at once (with my format, at least, it only shows the title in the archives). So it defeats the purpose when both have to be set to the same number.

    What I'm suggesting is that the setting can be split, one number for posts show on blog, one for posts shown in archives. It seems simple enough, but would make peoples lives much easier, I believe.

    Thanks for taking the time to read .. sorry for the incoherency! ^__^"

  2. teck07
    Member

    This like might be helpful
    comment author timethief
    http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic.php?id=13464&replies=5#post-97619

  3. sunnydaymiasma
    Member

    Hm, I looked into that, but figured out that the number set in reading settings also applies for those archives (at least with my template). :(

    Therefore, I think it would be a huge advantage if they'd make that option, to be able to separately set number of posts show for blog and archives. =/

  4. teck07
    Member

    You can post your idea in the idea section of the forums
    and if you get enough people saying they would like that change
    then staff might consider adding that option... =)
    WordPress.com Forums ยป Ideas

    Option 2 would be to suggest it to support
    http://wordpress.com/contact-support

  5. sunnydaymiasma
    Member

    I did ... I think. ^^"

    NOW TO RALLY SUPPORT!

    Although its kinda of a fine detail people might not notice ... I'm just insanely nitpicky :D

  6. teck07
    Member

    Oops my mistake I didn't check to see what section of the forum this was
    posted in it's been a very long day for me... =(

  7. sunnydaymiasma
    Member

    Haha, its okay. :]

  8. raincoaster
    Member

    It's a good idea. I'd support it; if they can make image width theme-dependent then surely they can make archives customizable.

  9. sunnydaymiasma
    Member

    Gah, this is extremely frustrating. I don't know about all themes, but for my these, under archives, it shows the title of each post. Its really short. And I want to see ALL/a lot of titles at once under archives. Instead, it shows 5. Only. That takes up like 3 inches of space. And if I want to see the rest I have to click the arrows to change pages. Its ridiculous.

  10. teck07
    Member

    I don't know if this will be any help
    I manually input my links into a page
    called archives so i can control how
    many show & what order they show....

    You're welcome to check out my archive/
    page to see what it looks like some links
    are missing because I'm getting ready to
    revamp the page so it will up date it's
    self after I link the words I want o the page

    Now you can create a archives page
    write the category names and link
    to the word like this by using this link format
    example.wordpress.com/category/category name goes here/
    by doing this when some clicks the category name
    they will see all posts under that category

    Here is the link to my archive page
    Archives « Teck~Line

    Sorry for the long post...

    ~Teck~

  11. sunnydaymiasma
    Member

    Hm. I understand what your saying, but the number of posts shown at a time under those archives are also controlled by the same settings. GAH.

    I'm not sure if that's only for the theme I'm using (ChaoticSoul) or what . . . .

    Also, I realize that manually adding the links is an option, but really, that just takes way too much time and effort when the entire thing can be (presumably) easily resolved. Sigh. Sorry for seeming so irritated, its been a long day . . .

  12. nellalou
    Member

    I'd be in favor of this also. And I'd like to show full text on the current posts page and titles or summaries only on the archives as well. And I'd like to have separate numbers of posts showing on each for example 5 current posts but 10 or more archived posts.

  13. panaghiotisadam
    Member

    @sunnydaymiasma: The limitation you noticed applies to all themes (since it is set in Settings>Reading). For themes that display full posts on Archive and Category pages it makes sense. Chaotic Soul (which I use, too) is one of the mere three themes that display titles instead of posts when you open an Archive or Category page (while other themes display the beginnings of posts). For these themes it would be quite reasonable to have a separate setting.

  14. bubel
    Staff

    Feel free to send Support a quick note, so that we can add these kinds of things to our user suggestion library, which is reviewed on a regular basis.

  15. sunnydaymiasma
    Member

    I didn't know you could do that... okay thanks, bubel!

    And everyone else, thanks! I didn't know that my theme was an exception with the posts/titles concerning archives O_O

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