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Fizzgig — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 13:03:03 +0000

Well, I’ve rejigged my site theme, and I decided to play a bit with the layout.

The look of the site seemed to be better with just the excerpt from a single post on the front page.

Now, that sounds really straight forward and something that WordPress should be able to do out of the box. And it is.

However, if you want the “Older Entries” pages to then show, say, 10 posts you’re knackered as all subsequent pages will just show 1 entry. I tried the Custom Post Limits plugin, but it still didn’t work as page 2 started at post 6.

After reading a lot of entries on this topic (it seems I’m not the only person keen on this!) and getting nowhere fast. Lots of “read this link then work it out yourself” type replies I finally got something to work. Using both the offset AND paging attributes of the query_posts() function!

The only issue with this is that the last page wouldn’t show at all. This was due to the fact that the front page misses all but 1 of the entries, then the 2nd page starts at entry 2. In effect you’re missing a number of entries up to the usual number per page minus 1 – everything that would be on the last page. To get round this, I simply double the number of entries displayed on what WordPress believes is the final page.

To get this to work, add the following snippit to the top of the home.php file in your theme directory.
If you don’t have a home.php file then copy your index.php in your theme directory to home.php which will then take precedence according to the WordPress Template Heirarcy. I do not recommend adding this to your index.php file.

//WATCH THAT LINE WRAP!
if (is_home()) {
        $page = (get_query_var('paged')) ? get_query_var('paged') : 1;
        if ($page == 1) {
                query_posts("showposts=1&paged=$page");
        } else {
                $numposts = get_option('posts_per_page');
                //Work out what posts to show first on the page.
                $offset = (($page -1) * $numposts) - ($numposts -1);
                //Quick hack to display double the number of posts on the last page as the offset hides posts per page -1.
                if ($page == $wp_query->max_num_pages) {
                        $numposts = 2* get_option('posts_per_page');
                }
                query_posts("offset=$offset&paged=$page&showposts=$numposts");
        }
}
?>

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Exchange Guid converter tool

Fizzgig — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 01:13:40 +0000

In response to the amount of comments I’ve had (which are way way more than I was ever expecting!) on my Exchange Mailbox Recovery article, I’ve written a script to convert your guids from the bad format that exmerge gives you to the one thats required for updating the user account.

You can access it here. Please leave any feedback on this post.

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LastFM for Drupal

Fizzgig — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 23:51:54 +0000

So, I’ve been playing with Drupal recently.

At first it did my head in, but then something sorta clicked. Not been near the Taxonomy module yet, but when I do I expect that process to reverse.

Anyway, I decided I needed a module that will allow users to show their LastFM stuff on their profile pages. I couldn’t find one so I wrote one.

I stared out with the Onlinestatus module as it did something very similar to what I was hoping to achieve.

Anyway, the module is attached should you feel so inclined. (Requires the profiles module I think. The one I based it on does anyway, so it probably does too.)

Download: lastfm.tar.gz

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