[theme-reviewers] Pagination Question

[Chip Bennett]

This one might be a bit off-topic for the Theme-Reviewers mail-list...

You might try the wp-hackers mail-list for this kind of question, or,
perhaps better yet, wordpress.stackexchange.com

Hope you find a solution. Sounds like a tricky problem!

Chip

On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 3:34 PM, Philip Walton <philip at philipwalton.com>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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