Title: posts per page …
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# posts per page …

 *  [mo2this](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mo2this/)
 * (@mo2this)
 * [21 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/posts-per-page/)
 * I just realized that depending on my settings how many posts are shown on my 
   my (index) page .. it influences as well how many posts are shown in the monthly
   archive. Is there a possibility to change that?
    I redirect via htaccess index.
   php to archive .. and think that might be the crucial point, but could not figure
   out how to do it else. On the other side I thought if it is really like that 
   then it influences every blog which has for example show posts set to 10 …. so
   entire monthly archives also will show only the first 10 (descending) thus never
   the lower numbers of the month in case one published more … Any advice? .. or
   my missunderstanding .. thank you

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 *  [Mark (podz)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/podz/)
 * (@podz)
 * [21 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/posts-per-page/#post-105990)
 * Set ‘posts paged’ in Options > Reading to control the number of posts in each
   view.
    You might also want to include some code for a Next – Previous link.
 *  Thread Starter [mo2this](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mo2this/)
 * (@mo2this)
 * [21 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/posts-per-page/#post-105996)
 * thank you, got it.
 *  Anonymous
 * [21 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/posts-per-page/#post-106350)
 * can somebody explain this to me.
    i want to do the same thing, but under Options-
   > Reading, it only has an option for Front Page. thanks, e
 *  [moshu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/moshu/)
 * (@moshu)
 * [21 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/posts-per-page/#post-106351)
 * Anon,
    set the number of posts for your “front page” and add the post_nav_link
   tag to your index.php. See Wiki: [http://wiki.wordpress.org/?pagename=posts_nav_link](http://wiki.wordpress.org/?pagename=posts_nav_link)
 *  Anonymous
 * [21 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/posts-per-page/#post-106352)
 * Thanks, but I got that part.
    Let me explain further. I want 8 posts per page
   on the “main” page, but 20 posts per page on the category page. Like the original
   poster, I use .htaccess pages to “split things off” into 2 templates, but the
   posts/page setting in Options -> Reading seems to control the setting for all“
   views/templates”, as it is no doubt a global variable read from the settings.
   Just wandering if it’s possible to set this number to be different for differnt“
   views”.
 *  [Mark (podz)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/podz/)
 * (@podz)
 * [21 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/posts-per-page/#post-106353)
 * It is….. Beel answered me and someone else a couple of days ago….I’ll find because
   I forgot to bookmark it myself 🙂
 *  [Mark (podz)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/podz/)
 * (@podz)
 * [21 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/posts-per-page/#post-106354)
 * I’ve not tried this yet:
    [http://wordpress.org/support/5/18320](http://wordpress.org/support/5/18320)
 *  [Beel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/beel/)
 * (@beel)
 * [21 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/posts-per-page/#post-106355)
 * If you are using 1.3a, when you get rboren’s plugin, just change the 1 to an 
   8 and set your posts to show to 20 and all will be well.
 *  Anonymous
 * [21 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/posts-per-page/#post-106357)
 * Ahh … thanks guys …
    I think I’m using 1.2.something … that explains why the 
   earlier suggestion didn’t make sense. I’ve figured out I can pass “posts_per_page
   =#” with .htaccess files and pretty much accomplish what I want. I tried just
   adding this variable to the relevant template, but that didn’t work. Presumably
   variables passed in the GET method take precedence over variables defined in .
   php files, so this must be why.

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