[theme-reviewers] Pagination Question

[Philip Walton]

Oh, and if it helps to visualize the home page, here's a basic comp of 
it. It only shows 5 posts, but you get the idea:
http://philipwalton.com/tennisenfuego/comp_v2.html


On 4/22/11 1:34 PM, Philip Walton wrote:
> I'm making a theme for a client, and I'm coming up with an interesting 
> issues that I thought I'd run by you all before I do anything too 
> hackish.
>
> Basically I'm making a theme where, according to the design, the home 
> page should display 9 posts, but every other page should display 10. 
> The 10 page design shows only the excerpts and looks like stacked 
> blocks: 2 columns, five high (all excerpts are equal height and 
> width). The reason there's only 9 posts on the home page is because 
> the first post shows the entire content, and then there's the stacked 
> blocks below that first post. Basically, in order to make it 
> symmetrical, there needs to be an odd number of posts displayed on the 
> first page, but an even number on every other page.
>
> So here's my question:
>
> If I say posts_per_page = 9 on the home page, but 10 on every other 
> page, the pagination messes up. When I go to page 2 I either skip a 
> post or show a post that was also shown on the home page.
>
> Can anyone think of a way to make page 1 be 1-9 and the subsequent 
> pages 10-19, 20-29, 30-39, etc?
>
> I've come up with nothing so far and I'd rather not have to manually 
> filter the limit in the MySQL query.
>
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