Title: post count in archive.php, category.php, etc
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# post count in archive.php, category.php, etc

 *  Resolved [dominoeffect](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dominoeffect/)
 * (@dominoeffect)
 * [17 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/post-count-in-archivephp-categoryphp-etc/)
 * Hi all,
 * I’m having a bit of a pickle trying to customise the post count in my archives
   section (acrhive.php, plus category.php).
 * My front page is set to show 10 posts, but on archive pages I use the_excerpt
   and would like to show up to 20 posts on those pages..
 * I had saw another post which suggested doing this:
 * `<?php query_posts('showposts=20'); ?>`
 * which is fine, except it on monthly archives it starts showing the previous month’s
   posts!
 * I’m sure there must be a solution to this, hopefully a simple one, and I appreciate
   any help that can be offered from the WP community.
 * Thank you in advance,

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 *  [wildbug](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wildbug/)
 * (@wildbug)
 * [16 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/post-count-in-archivephp-categoryphp-etc/#post-1024590)
 * Hello, I’m wondering if you found a solution to this, and if you could share 
   it here. Thank you!

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## Tags

 * [archive.php](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/archive-php/)
 * [category.php](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/category-php/)
 * [number-of-posts](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/number-of-posts/)

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 * Last activity: [16 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/post-count-in-archivephp-categoryphp-etc/#post-1024590)
 * Status: resolved

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