Different amount of posts on homepage than paged pages

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I’ve done some searches here and on Google but everything I’m finding isn’t working correctly. I was hoping to post my code here and get help with where I’m going wrong.

On the index page of my site, I have one “featured” post that has a different layout than the rest of the posts. When you click to the next page, that featured post goes away and leaves me with an uneven count of posts and I need an even post count. Here’s the code I found and have tried implementing with no joy.

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I’m using the following query (everything else is the same at the count code and below): 

<?php
  $page = (get_query_var('paged')) ? get_query_var('paged') : 1;
  query_posts("paged=$page&posts_per_page=10"); 
?>

This is the code I want to be able to use: 

<?php
$page = (get_query_var('paged')) ? get_query_var('paged') : 1;
$page_num = $paged;
    if ($pagenum='') $pagenum = 1;
    if ($pagenum > 1) { $post_num = 10 } else { $post_num = 9 }
query_posts('showposts='.$post_num.'&paged='.$page_num); `
?>

This would be the same for the rest of the page: 

<?php $count = 1; ?>

<?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>

<?php if ((!is_paged()) && ($count == 1 )){  ?>

 // FEATURED HTML HERE

<?php } else {  ?>

 // REGULAR HTML HERE

<?php } $count++; ?>

<?php endwhile; ?>

// PAGINATION HERE
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2 comments

  1. You should use the pre_get_posts filter. You can exclude the homepage with ! is_front_page or ! is_home depending on your configuration.

    /**
 * Changes the number of posts per page if not is_home
 *
 * @author  SFNdesign, Curtis McHale
 */
function wptt_change_posts_on_page( $query ) {
    if ( ! is_home() && $query->is_main_query() ) {
        $query->set( 'posts_per_page', '10' );
    }
}
add_action( 'pre_get_posts', 'wptt_change_posts_on_page' );

    As I said, you may need to use ! is_front_page depending on how your theme is set up. Here is a good blog post explaining more on those conditionals.

    http://wpthemetutorial.com/2011/12/12/clearing-up-confusion-about-is_home-and-is_front_page/

    Oh and never use query_posts, evar.
    https://developer.wordpress.com/2012/05/14/querying-posts-without-query_posts/

  2. The logic you came up with in the second snippet makes sense. Nonetheless, there are a couple of things wrong with your code.

    For one, the $pagenum variable is redundant and you do not need it. For another, you assign the return value of get_query_var() to $page and then in the following lines use $paged – you want that to be the same. The following should do:

    $paged = (get_query_var('paged')) ? get_query_var('paged') : 1;
$post_num = ($paged > 1) ? 10 : 9;
// query for posts

    Further, in the markup snippet (the 3rd one of your question), $count is not needed, you can simply use $paged as well. As an aside and for the sake of completeness, I would not employ so many php opening and closing tags, but that is a matter of taste and will not influence the functionality of your code.

    One more: Unless this is your main loop, you should use the WP_Query class instead of query_posts. And if it is, the usage of query_posts is not as wrong, but it still would be recommendable you’d check out the pre_get_posts filter instead.