I've got a query that looks like this:
$args = array (
'post_type' => $postType,
'paged' => $paged,
'pagination' => true,
'posts_per_page' => '10',
'order' => 'DESC',
'orderby' => 'date',
);
// The Query
$wp_query = new WP_Query( $args );
// The Loop
if ( $wp_query->have_posts() ) {
while ( $wp_query->have_posts() ) {
$wp_query->the_post();
// post stuff
}
} else {
// no posts
}
pagination($additional_loop->max_num_pages); wp_reset_postdata(); wp_reset_query();
I've also got some custom pagination that in functions.php that looks like this:
function pagination($pages = '', $range = 4)
{
$showitems = ($range * 2)+1;
global $paged;
if(empty($paged)) $paged = 1;
if($pages == '')
{
global $wp_query;
$pages = $wp_query->max_num_pages;
if(!$pages)
{
$pages = 1;
}
}
if(1 != $pages)
{
echo "<div class=\"pagination\"><span>Page ".$paged." of ".$pages."</span>";
if($paged > 2 && $paged > $range+1 && $showitems < $pages) echo "<a href='".get_pagenum_link(1)."'>« First</a>";
if($paged > 1 && $showitems < $pages) echo "<a href='".get_pagenum_link($paged - 1)."'>‹ Previous</a>";
for ($i=1; $i <= $pages; $i++)
{
if (1 != $pages &&( !($i >= $paged+$range+1 || $i <= $paged-$range-1) || $pages <= $showitems ))
{
echo ($paged == $i)? "<span class=\"current\">".$i."</span>":"<a href='".get_pagenum_link($i)."' class=\"inactive\">".$i."</a>";
}
}
if ($paged < $pages && $showitems < $pages) echo "<a href=\"".get_pagenum_link($paged + 1)."\">Next ›</a>";
if ($paged < $pages-1 && $paged+$range-1 < $pages && $showitems < $pages) echo "<a href='".get_pagenum_link($pages)."'>Last »</a>";
echo "</div>\n";
}
}
Again, works great. The only thing I can't figure out is how to limit the actual number of pages that are returned. For example, I might have 300 posts, paged into pages of 10. However, I only want to show a total of 30 posts split into 3 pages of 10.