Let’s say you have a WordPress blog. You only want one post to appear on the front page of that blog. But, you want all other pages (e.g., the second page, category pages, monthly archives, etc.) to display more than one (be it 5, 10, or whatever you chose on your “Reading Settings” page). The first part is easy, the latter has a few pitfalls to be aware of.
First, we’re going to call query_posts to modify the query a bit. We only want this on the home page, so we wrap it in an if statement:
global $wp_query;
if ( is_home() && !is_paged() ) {
query_posts(
array_merge(
$wp_query->query,
array('posts_per_page'=>1)
)
);
}
is_home() will be TRUE if you’re on the main blog page; !is_paged() verifies that we’re on the first page (because is_home() is still TRUE on subsequent pages (e.g.http://example.com/page/2/)).
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