I am struggling to only show a certain number of posts on the home page, for example 7 and then show 9 posts on every other (paged) page.
I can show a specific number of posts using the get method, but the pagination never works properly. I understand the default theme does this but I am using the traditional / default pagination.
Is this possible with Ghost?
Sure, this can be handled with the {{body_cass}} helper to apply conditional styles, eg:
.home_template
.paged
So you what you probably want is something like
body:not(.paged) .post:first-child { width: 100%; }
which would only apply to the first post on the first page
Hi John,
Thanks a lot for the quick reply.
I understand I could style the first post separately, however the issue I have is that I only want to display 7 posts on the home page, and then 9 on the (paged) pages. If I have 9 posts with the current layout I would need to have 2 two posts in two columns which I am trying to avoid.
I hope that makes sense.
hmmm, yeah that’s tricky. I mean the cheap solution is to do infinite-scroll rather than pagination, then all you have to worry about is that first post.
Not sure there’s an easy way around having differing posts_per_page values AND using automatic pagination
No worries, I will adapt the layout so it’s always the same number of posts per page on each page. I could do this as a featured post instead. Thanks for your help.