Best Wordpress Plugins: Custom Query String

Wordpress allows the user to set the number of posts that are to be displayed on every page. The problem with that feature on the Control Panel is that it affects all the types of pages around the blog. If you set this number to 5 you will have 5 posts on the Homepage, on the categories, on search results and so on.

As you can notice from my sidebar, the only way for the readers to navigate around the blog is through the categories. Having only 5 posts displayed on each category page (which is the number I use for the Homepage) is not efficient since it would force readers to browse across several pages before being able to see all the posts contained there.

The solution for this problem is the Custom Querry String plugin (download link) . After installing it you will be able to set the number of posts (custom queries) for every single page on your website. Here are some of the pages that you will be able to customize:

author
archive
category
year
month
day
search
feed
home

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Daniel Scocco on March 1, 2007 | Filed Under WordPress

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82 Responses to “Best Wordpress Plugins: Custom Query String”

Adrian on March 1st, 2007 4:45 am

Solid! Thanks for the heads up. Great blog, useful.
Anthony Baggett on March 1st, 2007 5:58 am

Great plug-in, and a new one to me. Thanks……..downloading now.
Daniel on March 1st, 2007 6:30 am

Installation was really smooth also, one of the best plugins I have played with.
Rory on March 1st, 2007 9:15 am

Is there a hack which forces partial posts, so that the whole post doesn’t show? That’s a whole lot of scrolling if you set it to 10 or 15.

Great plugin, by the way.
George on March 1st, 2007 10:27 am

Great find Daniel! I will have to check that out. I have been wanting to increase the number of posts in my archives for a long while.

Thanks,

George
Amit Karmakar on March 1st, 2007 2:07 pm

Been using this one for about 2 odd years, and its priceless!!!!!
Everton on March 1st, 2007 6:10 pm

now that is a useful find - thanks. Will implement at the weekend
Daniel on March 2nd, 2007 3:31 am

Rory, I just posted an article with an answer to your question, you can read it here:

http://www.dailyblogtips.com/h.....-excerpts/
inspirationbit on March 3rd, 2007 9:46 am

That’s a useful plugin indeed. Thanks.
Rolando on May 19th, 2007 8:48 pm

Dang, too cool, thank you!
Polliwog on May 30th, 2007 9:21 pm

wow. I’ve been searching for hours for the answer to this problem and I find the solution here, where I should have looked in the very first place! Thanks so much Daniel. Your blog is such a valuable resource.
Daniel on June 10th, 2007 7:45 pm

This may be of topic.

But I am looking for this wp plugins:- Different Sidebar by Categories & Sub-Categories

Is it available? Can’t find anywhere.

Reasons for this feature is that I would like start a generic wordpress blog.

Generic means no restrictions on the topics. It could be politic, sports, marketing, business… anything on earth and beyond.

As such, i would like to have different sidebar by categories and subcategories.

For example, in politic category, I may have different blogroll to the one in sports category.

It should be opened for everything that could be found on sidebar and not resticred to blogroll.

I see this as a very useful feature to maximize a blog relevancies as well as the advertising dollars.
Ducked.nl on July 18th, 2007 10:48 am

Thx a lot for the update! Is it also compatible with WP 2.2.x ?

See it in action here: http://www.ducked.nl

Grtz, Andy
Bertrand on August 1st, 2007 8:45 pm

Excellent plugin Daniel. That was exactly what I needed so thanks a lot

Bertrand (from France)
Bertrand on August 20th, 2007 10:16 am

Hi,

I’ve got a strange trouble.

Everything seems to word perfectly (8 posts on home, 15 on others pages) but in fact, it doesn’t display june posts… So strange, does anyone meet the same trouble or have a solution ?

Thanks !
Europasobreruedas on April 19th, 2008 3:05 pm

Thank you, I have finally found what he was looking for and it works perfectly. Thanks again and a greeting