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Right now, my sidebar displays SIX recent entries and I only want 5 displayed. I don't want to use a customized sidebar because then I'd have to use the crappy search widget and the search that comes with Cutline is SOOO much better than the widget one.
(I'm using Cutline.)
P.S. I also tried changing Options > Reading > Show the Most Recent 5 Post but that is only for Syndication Feeds.
Presentation -> Widgets
Find the Recent Posts widget
If it's in the Available widgets box then drag it into the Sidebar box and rop it in carefully
Now click on the icon and it will oprn
Make your setting choices
Click the X on the topr right hand corner to close the widget
Click "Save Changes"
VOILA!
The only way is use the sidebar widgets I am afraid since there are no way to tell it to use 5 entries unless you use the sidebar recent entries widget. Sorry!
Trent
you can edit the recent posts widget to show only 5 titles of your latest posts.
haha help overdose? :P
I didn't realize that the "default sidebar" used 6 entries......strange.
Trent
Actually, the default sidebar uses infinete entries, I think, but as I said, I don't want to use the ''Latest Post'' widget because that will force me to use the ''Search'' widget and it is crap (the way it looks) compared to the search bar that comes with Cutline.
Are you sure that you cannot simply re-build a sidebar using a text widget to contain the 5 entries you want?
Interestingly enough I just put the Cutline theme up on my test blog. I did not put the searchbox or any other widgets at all in the sidebar except the Recent Posts widget. I created 5 test posts. I then set the Recent Posts widget to display 5 and it's working fine.
The next go round I created a text widget and placed it all by its lonesome in the sidebar with the links to the five test posts in it. It's displaying fine.
Help! What exactly the problem is here is beyond me.
force me to use the ''Search'' widget ...
I'm wondering what you mean by this because I was not "forced" to use any widget. As soon as I over-rode the default sidebar display with one widget of my own choice I was freely able to use only the widgets I wanted to use.
The theme uses the "default" sidebar which takes more elements from the original theme. The poster is saying that it uses a different search when you don't specify which widgets to use in the sidebar. If you uses any widget, he loses that search as they are saying the search widget and the search from the main theme are different (I didn't know that).
When I mean "default sidebar", I mean if you don't have any widgets, it goes back to the theme default sidebar as if widgets don't exist.
I think I am getting it, but tell me if I am wrong. If that is the case, then the 6 recent posts is theme coded and can't be changed unless you use the widgets and lose the original theme search.
Trent
@Trent
I just tried to use the searchbox here http://iblognews.wordpress.com/ and it didn't work at all.
Now suddenly after three hits on the enter bar - it's working.
Yes, trent that is correct. :)
Here's a picture: http://i214.photobucket.com/albums/cc205/dnx-x1/Image2.jpg?t=1196560861
The top one is the default search bar, the bottom one is the search widget.
I understand exactly where yopu are coming from. I have both wordpress.com blogs and wordpress.org blogs. We cannot edit our templates here. On a wordpress.com blog you are stuck with the 6 most recent post if you do not want to over-ride the default. But do not despair. If this type of detail is a "deal breaker" for you quality web hosting is cheap and you can download a Cutline template from http://wordpress.org free of charge.
You could also use the RSS widget instead and configure it to show only five posts. That would automatically update.
Great idea!
OK thanks guys. If the limit is set at 6, then it's OK (I only have 6 posts currently), but if it's at something like 30, I'll just change the sidebar and customize it myself.
Again--thanks for the help everyone. :)
On my own behalf, you're welcome and happy blogging.
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