Title: get_posts padding to equal posts_per_page
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# get_posts padding to equal posts_per_page

 *  [Dane Morgan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dane-morgan/)
 * (@dane-morgan)
 * [12 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/get_posts-padding-to-equal-posts_per_page/)
 * I’m running a get_posts() using a variable for the item count to display up to
   5 items on one page and up to 7 items on another page.
 * However if I only have three posts, instead of only having three in the post 
   array I have either 5 or 7. Some of the elements in the extra results seem to
   have the same values as the first post in the array, while other elements seem
   to be empty.
 * Any ideas what I’m doing wrong here?
 *     ```
       <?php$news_posts = get_posts ( array ( 'posts_per_page' => $item_count, 'category_name' => 'news' ) );>
   
       <div id="quicklinks-1" class="ql">
             			<?php foreach ( $news_posts as $newspost ) : ?>
             				<p class="quicklink-item">
             					<a href="<?php echo get_permalink( $newspost->ID ); ?>">
             						<?php
             							if ( has_post_thumbnail( $newspost->ID ) ) :
             								echo get_the_post_thumbnail( $newspost->ID, 'quick-links' );
       								else : ?>
       									<img src="<?php echo get_stylesheet_directory_uri(); ?>/images/icn-news.jpg" width="37px" height="37px" alt="<?php echo $newspost->post_title; ?>" />
       								<?php
       								endif;
       							?>
             					</a>
       						<span class="headline">
       							<a href="<?php echo get_permalink( $newspost->ID ); ?>">
       								<?php echo get_post_meta( $newspost->ID, 'quick-link-title', true ); ?>
       								<?php //echo $newspost->post_title; ?>
       							</a>
       						</span>
       						<span class="date">
       							<?php echo get_the_time('d M, Y', $newspost->ID); ?>
       						</span>
       					</p>
       					<?php endforeach; ?>
             			<div class="clear"></div>
             			<div class="more">
             			<a href="<?php echo home_url ( '/category/news/' ); ?>">
                    		<img src="<?php echo get_stylesheet_directory_uri(); ?>/images/more.jpg" />
                     	</a>
                   	</div>
             		</div><!-- #quicklinks1 -->
       ```
   

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 * Last reply from: [Dane Morgan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dane-morgan/)
 * Last activity: [12 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/get_posts-padding-to-equal-posts_per_page/)
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