I am creating a genesis child theme. I have a category called ‘faculty’ with about 60 posts in it. I am modifying the category template file so that it displays this category in a customized fashion.
The desired result is that
- the faculty appear in random order,
- they do not appear more than once
- they appear in groups of four per page
Here is the relevant code from my page:
remove_action('genesis_loop', 'genesis_do_loop');
add_action('genesis_loop', 'hdo_faculty_loop');
function hdo_faculty_loop() {
global $paged;
$args = array(
'category_name' => 'faculty',
'posts_per_page' => 4,
'orderby' => 'rand',
'paged' => $paged
);
genesis_custom_loop( $args );
}
genesis();
What I am getting is http://hdo.la.utexas.edu/category/faculty/:
- 4 faculty per page [yay!]
- random order [yay!]
- previous and next navigation at the bottom of the page [yay!]
- only 6 pages (24 faculty) instead of the expected 15 [boo!]
- duplicate faculty in the set of 24 [boo]
- a “next” loop on the sixth page that navigates to a 404
I was in the same problem as you, and I found a solution to this matter.
Go to WP settings, under “reading”, and update the ‘posts_per_page’ value also in there. It’s set to 10 by default.
I hope it helps!
Regards.