[wp-hackers] Limiting # of posts when a category is viewed?

[Rich Manalang]

Another solution is condensing the size of an entry to x-number of words 
when viewed in a date or category archive.  I wrote a plugin to do just 
that.  Look here ->

http://manalang.com/archives/2004/05/26/wordpress-plugin-condensed-content-for-date-and-category-archives

- Rich

jennifer at hipmonkey.com wrote:

>I created a paginate plugin to paginate those types of pages - and the
>number of posts per page when paginating is customizable:
>http://www.scriptygoddess.com/archives/2004/05/23/wppaginate/
>
>Is that what you're talking about?
>
>Original Message:
>-----------------
>From: Jason McIntosh jmcintosh at mlug.missouri.edu
>Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2004 09:42:27 -0500
>To: hackers at wordpress.org
>Subject: [wp-hackers] Limiting # of posts when a category is viewed?
>
>
>I thought I'd see before I worked on this, if anyone knew of a hack to 
>limit the # of posts displayed per page when a category is chosen.  My 
>General category has 70 posts, some of which are on the large side, and 
>thus when a category is clicked, it takes a LONG time to load the page. 
>  I'd like to limit the listing and make use of the posts_per_page 
>variable, or something similar.  Anyone have any thoughts/suggestions 
>on this?
>Thanks!
>Jason
>
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