Paging The HemingwayEx Home Page

By default, the HemingwayEx theme only shows 2 posts on the home page. This is all well & good except for the fact that you can’t use the paging (next & previous) links on your home page to show older posts as well.

If you want to get the paging links working, then here’s 3 steps to achieve that goal.

Step #1:

Create a new PHP file (you can do this easily with a simple text editor like Notepad). Name it custom_hem_home_query.php. Now copy & paste the following code into it.

<?php

/*
 * Plugin Name: Custom HemingwayEx Home Query
 * Plugin URI: http://moggy.laceous.com/2007/07/29/paging-the-hemingwayex-home-page/
 * Description: Gives you the ability to use the paging links on your homepage
 * Version: 0.1
 * Author: Moggy
 * Author URI: http://moggy.laceous.com
 */

add_filter('query_string', 'custom_hem_home_query');

function custom_hem_home_query($query_string) {
	global $wp_query;
	$wp_query->parse_query($query_string);
	if ($wp_query->is_home) {
		global $hemingwayEx;
		$category_id = $hemingwayEx->get_asides_category_id();
		if (is_null($category_id)) {
			$query_string .= '&posts_per_page=2';
		}
		else {
			$query_string .= '&posts_per_page=2&cat=-' . $category_id;
		}
	}
	return $query_string;
}

?>

Save the file & upload it to your wp-content/plugins folder. When you’re ready… activate the plugin.

Step #2:

Now we have to remove the custom query from the wp-content/themes/hemingwayEx index.php file. Find the following code in the index.php file:

// Here is the call to only make two posts show up on the homepage REGARDLESS of your options in the control panel
$category_id = $hemingwayEx->get_asides_category_id();
is_null($category_id) ? query_posts('showposts=2') : query_posts('showposts=2&cat=-' . $category_id);

Simply comment out those lines so it looks like this:

// Here is the call to only make two posts show up on the homepage REGARDLESS of your options in the control panel
//$category_id = $hemingwayEx->get_asides_category_id();
//is_null($category_id) ? query_posts('showposts=2') : query_posts('showposts=2&cat=-' . $category_id);

Step #3:

Now you just need to add the paging links to your index.php file. Something like this should work:

<div class="navigation">
  <?php next_posts_link('&laquo; Previous Entries') ?>
  <?php previous_posts_link('Next Entries &raquo;') ?>
</div>

One final note:

You could also wrap the code from steps 2 & 3 with an if statement like the following if you want to be able to dynamically enable & disable the plugin.

if (function_exists('custom_hem_home_query')) {
  // put code here
}

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26 Comments

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  • moggy (Aug 15, 2008)

    An updated version of this plugin is located here

    Reply

  • Chris (Dec 11, 2008)

    Hey moggy – thanks for the help man. I’ve followed you instructions
    and everything works great. Just the last step – places the (
    <?php next_posts_link('« Previous Entries') ?>
    <?php previous_posts_link('Next Entries »') ?> )
    code… – I assume it’s in the index.php of the hemmingway theme
    that I put this, and then also, it then places the “next/previous”
    links in weird palce on some pages….exactly where in the
    index.php page should I insert the code? Thanks!

    Reply

  • moggy (Dec 12, 2008)

    Hey Chris — here’s what I’m currently using:

    <?php if (function_exists('custom_hem_home_query')): ?>
    <div class="clear"></div>
    <div class="navigation" style="text-align:center;">
    <?php
    if ($paged == 0) $curr_paged = 1;
    else $curr_paged = $paged;
    $prev_paged = $curr_paged - 1;
    $next_paged = $curr_paged + 1;
    ?>
    <?php previous_posts_link('&laquo;&laquo; '); ?>
    <?php echo 'Page ' . $curr_paged; ?>
    <?php next_posts_link(' &raquo;&raquo;'); ?>
    </div>
    <?php endif; ?>

    I have it inside the HemingwayEx index.php file just below the loop

    Reply

  • chaospilot (Dec 30, 2008)

    hi there. i would just like to ask what did you do in your RECENT
    ENTRIES so that it would look like this: 06.15 HemingwayEx
    Widgets please get back to me :P ill appreciate the help. thanks

    Reply

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