I am working on a custom template for my office. I have a static front page and a static home page to display the blog posts. I am having a few minor issues and will have to create a few other questions as I fix each problem… Anyways, this problem is pretty interesting to me.
While in development, I have the post per page set to 3 (Settings > Reading). On the blog page (home.php) I do see my latest posts and that’s fine. The problem is the home page is showing about 8 blog posts instead of the 3 that it is set to display. I am not doing anything custom with the query and just using the loop to display the post content.
The pagination works fine and functions as expected All paginated pages display only 3 posts and they are all the correct posts for each page. The only issue with this is that the home page first shows 8 posts instead of the 3 that is set in the settings.
Any help on this is much appreciated. I tried searching and could not find anyone having this issue so sorry if this is a duplicate post and hopefully I can get a push in the right direction.
I also checked with the Twenty Eleven theme and the same issue occurs. This is the template I copied some logic from.
I disabled all plugins and the issue still exists. The only plugins I was using were the WordPress SEO and WP Lightbox 2. Even after disabling them the issue still occurs.
If I increase the posts per page to 15 it shows 17… If I increase it to 6 I show 10. If I increase the number to 7 or 8 I show 11 posts. If I set it to 9 I show 12. 10 shows 13…. 12 shows 14… As you can see very frustrating. The only place where I change the query is on the front page but I doubt that is affecting the home page. I basically do a custom query on the front page to show only the last 6 sticky posts. I make sure the reset the query afterwards to be safe. Still have no clue about why this is happening. This has me going nuts!
I have provided my code below:
home.php
<?php
/*
Template Name: Home Page (Blog Roll)
*/
?>
<?php get_header(); ?>
<div id="main">
<div id="content" class="list-box">
<?php
/* Run the loop to output the page.
* If you want to overload this in a child theme then include a file
* called loop-page.php and that will be used instead.
*/
get_template_part( 'loop', 'single' );
?>
<div class="page-nav">
<?php if (get_next_posts_link()): ?>
<span class="nav-button older-posts"><?php next_posts_link( '« Older posts'); ?></span>
<?php
endif;
if (get_previous_posts_link()): ?>
<span class="nav-button newer-posts"><?php previous_posts_link( 'Newer posts »' ); ?></span>
<?php endif; ?>
</div>
</div>
<?php get_sidebar(); ?>
</div>
<?php get_footer(); ?>
loop-single.php
<?php
/**
* The loop that displays a single post.
*
* The loop displays the posts and the post content. See
* http://codex.wordpress.org/The_Loop to understand it and
* http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags to understand
* the tags used in it.
*
* This can be overridden in child themes with loop-single.php.
*
* @package WordPress
* @subpackage EHRScopev2
*/
?>
<?php if (have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
<div class="box">
<div class="box-holder">
<div class="box-frame">
<div id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>" <?php post_class(); ?>>
<h2><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>" title="<?php the_title_attribute(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h2>
<em class="meta"><?php ehrscope_posted_on(); ?> | <span class="total-comments"><?php comments_popup_link(); ?></span></em>
<?php
if (!is_single() && has_excerpt()):
the_excerpt();
else:
the_content(__('Continue reading', 'ehrscope') . ': <em>' . the_title('', '', false) . '</em>');
endif;
?>
<div class="clear"></div>
<?php
if (is_single()):
ehrscope_wp_link_pages();
$tags = wp_get_post_tags($post->ID);
?>
<p class="entry-meta"><?php ehrscope_show_tags(); ?></p>
<?php if ($tags): ?>
<a href="javascript:void(0);" id="toggle-related-posts" class="button"><?php _e('Show Related Posts', 'ehrscope'); ?></a>
<?php
endif;
endif;
?>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<?php if (is_single()): ?>
<div class="box" id="related-posts-cage">
<div class="box-holder">
<div class="box-frame">
<div>
<?php if (is_single()): ?>
<?php
if ($tags):
$tag_ids = array();
foreach ($tags as $individual_tag) {
$tag_ids[] = $individual_tag->term_id;
}
$args = array(
'tag__in' => $tag_ids,
'post__not_in' => array($post->ID),
'posts_per_page' => 10, // Number of related posts to display.
'caller_get_posts' => 1
);
$my_query = new WP_Query($args);
if ($my_query->have_posts()):
?>
<h3><?php _e('Related Posts', 'ehrscope'); ?></h3>
<ul>
<?php
while ($my_query->have_posts()) : $my_query->the_post();
?>
<li>
<a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title_attribute(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a>
<!-- <span class="related-posts-date"><?php the_time('F jS, Y'); ?></span>-->
</li>
<?php
endwhile;
?>
</ul>
<?php
endif;
endif;
endif;
?>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<?php
endif;
comments_template('', true);
endwhile;
else:
?>
<div class="box">
<div class="box-holder">
<div class="box-frame">
<div id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>" <?php post_class(); ?>>
<h2><?php _e('No Results', 'ehrscope'); ?></h2>
<p><?php _e('Sorry, no posts matched your criteria.', 'ehrscope'); ?></p>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<?php endif; ?>
Contents of $wp_query:
Array
(
[page] => 0
[pagename] => blog
[error] =>
[m] => 0
[p] => 0
[post_parent] =>
[subpost] =>
[subpost_id] =>
[attachment] =>
[attachment_id] => 0
[name] =>
[static] =>
[page_id] => 0
[second] =>
[minute] =>
[hour] =>
[day] => 0
[monthnum] => 0
[year] => 0
[w] => 0
[category_name] =>
[tag] =>
[cat] =>
[tag_id] =>
[author_name] =>
[feed] =>
[tb] =>
[paged] => 0
[comments_popup] =>
[meta_key] =>
[meta_value] =>
[preview] =>
[s] =>
[sentence] =>
[fields] =>
[category__in] => Array
(
)
[category__not_in] => Array
(
)
[category__and] => Array
(
)
[post__in] => Array
(
)
[post__not_in] => Array
(
)
[tag__in] => Array
(
)
[tag__not_in] => Array
(
)
[tag__and] => Array
(
)
[tag_slug__in] => Array
(
)
[tag_slug__and] => Array
(
)
[ignore_sticky_posts] =>
[suppress_filters] =>
[cache_results] => 1
[update_post_term_cache] => 1
[update_post_meta_cache] => 1
[post_type] =>
[posts_per_page] => 3
[nopaging] =>
[comments_per_page] => 5
[no_found_rows] =>
[order] => DESC
)
Do a search through your theme’s entire directory for the functions “is_home()” and “is_front_page()”. The only thing I can think of is that there’s a function written somewhere that makes the front page have 8 posts no matter how many posts are set per page on the rest of the blog.
It seems this was a noobie mistake.
The sticky posts are added to the top of the page thus increasing the post count on the initial blogroll. I just had to remove the sticky posts from being sticky and that solved the issue.
I only use the sticky posts for the front page and I do not want them to be at the top of the home.php page.
Thanks for your help!
Updated home.php
loop-custom-query.php