Custom Posts Per Page
Custom Posts Per Page provides a settings page in your WordPress admin that allows you to specify how many posts are displayed for different views.
4.8(12 reviews)
·900 active installs·Updated 11 years agoAs of April 2026, Custom Posts Per Page is a WordPress admin plugin with 900 active installations and a 4.8/5 rating from 12 reviews. It has been downloaded 37K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 4.0+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2011. Last updated 11 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Downloads are down 24% this week. Top alternative: Loginizer.
4.8/512 reviews
900active installs
37K+total downloads
15 yearssince 2011
Overview
Custom Posts Per Page allows you to specify how many posts are displayed per page depending on your current view. Once settings are changed, the Blog pages show at most setting in the Reading menu will be ignored.
Settings are available for:
- Home (Index) Page
- As long as view is set to blog posts, not static page.
- Category Pages
- Tag Pages
- Author Pages
- Archive Pages
- Search Pages
- Default Page (Any page not covered above.)
- Custom Post Type archive pages
- All Custom Post Types are detected automatically.
Each of the above settings can have a different value for the first page displayed and subsequent paged views.
Custom Posts Per Page makes it easy to manage exactly how your content is displayed to your readers, especially when different views have different layouts, rather than relying…
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Ratings & Reviews
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Recent Reviews
Still works great, even for 4.7.2
by MediaBarker·9 years ago
Despite this being “out-of-date” this plug-in solved a problem for me. And there have been no bad side effects.
Thanks
Awesome
by cyb3rnux·9 years ago
It’s awesome and it works!
can’t style css on it but i hope i’ll fix it someday..xD
Saved a lot of time and is a great addition
by Christina·10 years ago
Thank you so much for making this plugin!
Thanks
by MartyCashew·10 years ago
Helped me a lot
Worked fast just like it was supposed to
by rchrisbishop·10 years ago
Activated it, customized the settings and it worked. Thank you!
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Compatibility
| WordPress | 4.0+ requiredTested up to 4.1.42 |
| PHP | false+ required |
Version Adoption
v1.7
100.0%
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Changelog
1.7.1
- Switch to semantic versioning. 🙂
- Code cleanup, compatibility testing with 4.1.
- Add some extra sanitization, escaping.
- Remove backwards compatible
is_main_query()check. Use WordPress 4.0 or greater.
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