rhonorginal

@alchymyth many may thanks, that works like a peach, and I can understand why.

@robin I appreciate your time and tying to help, but you also did this to me yesterday, had me going round in circles. I appreciate you are trying to help, but would rather have no reply than some random code.

thanks all.

would that not just display a list of 5 random post titles?

would be better to use something like this? how could this be applied to show all search results on one page regardless of reading settings?

<?php
function custom_posts_per_page( $query ) {
    if ( $query->is_tax('mytaxonomy') || $query->is_category('mycategory') ) {
        set_query_var('posts_per_page', 9);
    }
}
add_action( 'pre_get_posts', 'custom_posts_per_page' ); ?>

sorry, above example works, I omitted the final semi

see original doc here

I’m thinking something more like

<title><?php
	global $page, $paged;
	wp_title( '|', true, 'right' );
	bloginfo( 'name' );
	$site_description = get_bloginfo( 'description', 'display' );
	if ( $site_description && ( is_home() || is_front_page() ) )
		echo " | $site_description";
	if ( $paged >= 2 || $page >= 2 )
		echo ' | ' . sprintf( __( 'Page %s' ), max( $paged, $page ) );
?></title>

would that not drop in the post title before <title>?